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What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Fairfax Burke resident ()
Date: November 29, 2015 07:41PM

Was there something else before Target opened in Burke (along Guinea road and Roberts Pkwy)? If not, what was the land used for? Was it a empty lot? A forested land?

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: not sure actually ()
Date: November 29, 2015 07:52PM

There wasn't a store there before Target, at least not one that I ever went to (and I pretty much went to them all). I think Target went up around the same time as the VRE station did...but honestly I'm not that clear on that. Maybe someone else remembers.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: It Was a Farm House ()
Date: November 29, 2015 08:07PM

That's it, a old white 2 story house. And a train crossing.

The road there is called "Red Neck Run" for its drag racing days, Up the road toward Kings Park West, on the left back in that subdivision was the Pagens House, a beat up burned , 2 story house where parties carried on in days of old with the "Bunnyman" passing thru on his way to the Southern Railroad tracks for a ride on a slow moving freight to "The Party Grounds" You may have seen sights there as I did, Young Clean Cut College folk pulling in, drinking beer , then "unloading" a .45 Auto into the side of a tree for "Kicks" . Now youngster. That's all you need to know..

DAJAX

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: nearrobertsroad ()
Date: November 29, 2015 10:13PM

woods. There was nothing but woods before Target.

Roberts Road went to an old house/property. all paved over.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Sephardic Jew ()
Date: November 30, 2015 01:35AM

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Before Target there was Luskins.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Ludwig ()
Date: November 30, 2015 04:39AM

A traffic circle..............

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Way Way Back ()
Date: November 30, 2015 12:36PM

In the beginning there were the Dinosaurs, they all got big and fat, then died.

Then they turned to oil.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Joke Insurance ()
Date: December 02, 2015 11:04AM

The area where those two houses along Guinea Road once stood was eventually reverted back to a wetland.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/2015 04:23PM by Joke Insurance.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Joke Insurance ()
Date: February 11, 2017 08:50PM

And there were homes at the following locations:

* Where Primer Court goes under the Roberts Road/Parkway bridge.

* At the electical substation.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: A Corn Field ()
Date: February 11, 2017 09:33PM

That's It..And a Lil farm House made otta wood..Painted White..

DAJAX.. You'll Have to Ask "Old Man Young"..Whos sign is on that property near there.. where that old home is a Hiding beneath the trees..

DAJAX

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: February 11, 2017 09:36PM

The FairfaxUnderground server used to be burried there.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Kshla ()
Date: February 11, 2017 09:50PM

It was the sight of the very original bunny man incident.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: No Twas Not ()
Date: February 11, 2017 10:05PM

That was along Olley lane and along Guinea Rd..In Fall 1970 Near Halloween..With His Cheap White Fuzzy Suit and Hatchet Natch .. The B.Man did Party that way.and all other that "Hood" LOL. At The Pagans House which was about 3/4 a mile up "Redneck Run"..toward Kings Park West...there's a Subdivision there now..Name Slips me Tounge..Lakewood..Naw.. OH Well..Townhouses there now S.F.Homes..

DAJAX That B.Man was bout 3-4 years older then me..Twas Said..In Days Of Yore!! LOL

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Yes 'twas ()
Date: February 11, 2017 10:51PM

No Twas Not Wrote:
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> That was along Olley lane and along Guinea Rd..In
> Fall 1970 Near Halloween..With His Cheap White
> Fuzzy Suit and Hatchet Natch .. The B.Man did
> Party that way.and all other that "Hood" LOL. At
> The Pagans House which was about 3/4 a mile up
> "Redneck Run"..toward Kings Park West...there's a
> Subdivision there now..Name Slips me
> Tounge..Lakewood..Naw.. OH Well..Townhouses there
> now S.F.Homes..
>
> DAJAX That B.Man was bout 3-4 years older then
> me..Twas Said..In Days Of Yore!! LOL

Take a ruler and see where old Ollie lane used to be...the one that's off Burke road. You can still see it on google maps going up to the old train station.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Sorry...OLD....Bunny.!...LOL ()
Date: February 11, 2017 11:48PM

DAJAX..! GULP!!..

Don't mess With The Bunny Man...LOL!!

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: so many trees ()
Date: February 12, 2017 12:53AM

it was still all woods when I started at Robinson in ~98...

you had to stop at the train tracks after making this weird almost 180degree turn and then stop at tracks before going along your way.

so i guess ~'99 they razed the woods and built Target? The overpass didn't come til a couple years later I think but I'm stoned and have been since '99 so it's tough....

...for about a year we used to have fun knocking down every single cone with our shitty cars on the overpass after it was freshly built and open for operation...oh to be 16 again.

also, when I was maybe 22, i got shitfaced in that townhouse neighborhood across from Target and puked on soem kids front porch. I decidd to walk home...to the landing...on the way I stole a small pink bike off a townhouse front porch, complete with those streamser on the handlebars and then drunkenly tried to ride it home across the overpass...i got alot of speed and wiped out and fucked up the bike and lost my shitty nokia phone....

...so logically, i stood out in the middle of Roberts road with my thumb in the air...first guy to come by was in a big F150 and picked me up, laughed about what a drunken fuck I was and drove me home without (weirdly) sodoming me in any way...

...10+ years later and I still feel bad for that poor girl who lost her bike to some drunken madman...

...............................

so yeah there was trees there before target man

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Burke Brat ()
Date: February 12, 2017 01:04AM

As someone else said, Trees and you can still see the path on Satellite images, I just remember an old house but it was not torn down for Target, just torn down. Part of that road still exists right behind the store and going to the Parking garage. Also Sideburn crossed the tracks and went into the area where Lake Barton now occupies. Burke Centre Conservancy had a shop and Boat/Camper storage at the end of Premire Court.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Joke Insurance ()
Date: February 12, 2017 01:37AM

Burke Brat Wrote:
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> As someone else said, Trees and you can still see
> the path on Satellite images, I just remember an
> old house but it was not torn down for Target,
> just torn down. Part of that road still exists
> right behind the store and going to the Parking
> garage.

That was where Guinea Road crossed the railroad tracks. And I already mentioned those houses that you speak of, btw.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Brock Lesnar ()
Date: July 13, 2018 03:24AM

Why is there a lot of green space at the intersection of Sideburn Road and New Guinea Road?

And why is there a slip lane at the intersection of New Guinea Road and Corot Court?

It looks like they wanted to expand New Guinea Road to 4 lanes at one point.

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Re: What was there before Target opened in Burke Virginia?
Posted by: Bill1995 ()
Date: July 14, 2018 02:45PM

That land should be returned to the Native Americans whom it rightfully belongs to.

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