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Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Homebuyer ()
Date: December 21, 2015 09:40AM

Can anybody point me to neighborhoods where the houses date to before WWII?

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Mavis Leonard ()
Date: December 21, 2015 09:57AM

Roughly half of Arlington county. Roughly half of Alexandria. Some neighborhoods in the city of falls church. Parts of Vienna. Some homes near belle haven country club. That's really it.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: December 21, 2015 10:11AM

I own a pre-WWIII era home.


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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: FONZ ()
Date: December 21, 2015 10:15AM

Pretty sure "Old Town" Alexandria may have some pre WWII homes.....

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Al's Steak House # 1 ()
Date: December 21, 2015 10:17AM

All of Del Ray.

Those houses were built between 1900's and 1930's. There were built for the RR workers that were employed at the RF&P yard.

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Date: December 21, 2015 10:17AM

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Bloody Yanks ()
Date: December 21, 2015 12:35PM

WWII started in 1939.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: December 21, 2015 01:10PM

DC

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: PoPo ()
Date: December 21, 2015 01:19PM

I grew up in a home that's now in "Old Burke". It was build in about 1920. When I lived there (1974-92) it was 1.8 acres and had a barn. The back lot has been developed and the home has been tweaked and is now half-shingled and has plastic siding over the clap boards, but it's still there. 9404 Jackson St. Most of the other homes there on the Lee St./Gaines St./High Ln. area are all the same vintage. A couple of them are in-fil development (they were corn fields when I was a kid).

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Cereal Realist ()
Date: December 21, 2015 03:22PM

Bloody Yanks Wrote:
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> WWII started in 1939.

Our involvement, obviously, didn't start until 1942.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Keller Williams ()
Date: December 21, 2015 03:37PM

1.1 million fewer people lived in Fairfax County in 1940 than do today. We were still a land of vast nothingness at that point.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Theoretically Posting ()
Date: December 21, 2015 04:03PM

Keller Williams Wrote:
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> 1.1 million fewer people lived in Fairfax County
> in 1940 than do today. We were still a land of
> vast nothingness at that point.


Still is a land of vast nothingness.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Lazy, but not like OP lazy ()
Date: December 21, 2015 06:37PM


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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: XypFF ()
Date: December 21, 2015 06:49PM

Yea smart ass, it didn't work. Why don't you just kick your dog next time. That you should be able to manage.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: wrongoo ()
Date: December 21, 2015 07:20PM

Cereal Realist Wrote:
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> Bloody Yanks Wrote:
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> > WWII started in 1939.
>
> Our involvement, obviously, didn't start until
> 1942.

What about the Lend-Lease act of 1941?

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Gen Doug MacArthur and Friends ()
Date: December 21, 2015 07:34PM

wrongoo Wrote:
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> Cereal Realist Wrote:
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> > Bloody Yanks Wrote:
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> > -----
> > > WWII started in 1939.
> >
> > Our involvement, obviously, didn't start until
> > 1942.
>
> What about the Lend-Lease act of 1941?

The notion that "our involvement...didn't start until 1942" would come as quite a surprise to the servicemen and women at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; or the American military personnel in the Phillipines on December 8, 1941 (same coordinated attack just on different sides of the International Date Line).

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: btwJp ()
Date: December 21, 2015 09:15PM

You're talking about neighborhoods that were first subdivided from plantations. But almost all of that was torn down and redeveloped into much denser neighborhoods in the early-mid 40s. So you might found a house (or farmhouse) or two, but not much else left. Except where it was already dense in the early 1900s, like Old Town Alexandria.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: You're all wrong ()
Date: December 21, 2015 10:28PM

Gen Doug MacArthur and Friends Wrote:
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> wrongoo Wrote:
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> > Cereal Realist Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > -----
> > > Bloody Yanks Wrote:
> > >
> >
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> >
> > > -----
> > > > WWII started in 1939.
> > >
> > > Our involvement, obviously, didn't start
> until
> > > 1942.
> >
> > What about the Lend-Lease act of 1941?
>
> The notion that "our involvement...didn't start
> until 1942" would come as quite a surprise to the
> servicemen and women at Pearl Harbor on December
> 7, 1941; or the American military personnel in the
> Phillipines on December 8, 1941 (same coordinated
> attack just on different sides of the
> International Date Line).

You're all wrong...by 1940 the US was involved by providing money and supplies to other allied nations.

Now quit arguing about history and answer the freakin' question! This will help you much more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/northern-virginia/1776117-pre-wwii-homes-fairfax-county.html

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Keller Williams ()
Date: December 22, 2015 09:32AM

Theoretically Posting Wrote:
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> Still is a land of vast nothingness.

With respect to anything YOU'VE ever contributed, I would certainly agree. The point of course was that the area was all but empty through the 1930's. Significant development did not begin here until the post-WWII population influxes. Pre-WWII neighborhoods simply never exited here the way they did in states to the north.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Derpy Donald ()
Date: December 22, 2015 09:40AM

Lazy, but not like OP lazy Wrote:
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> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Where+can+I+find+Pre-WWII+pro
> perties+in+Fairfax+County%3F+


Hahahaha, the first link in that search is this thread. So that was helpful.
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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: VcVXY ()
Date: December 22, 2015 12:09PM

137 Kale Ave in Sterling is an old stone house that they built the newer neighborhood around. Not sure the story behind it.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Lord Fairfax Rocks ()
Date: December 23, 2015 06:55AM

There's an historic old building in southeast Fairfax County where Lord Fairfax tortured his slaves. I remember driving by it once but can't seem to find anything about it on the internet now.

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: True the Vote! ()
Date: December 23, 2015 08:49AM

Lorton prison?

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Re: Where are the pre-WWII neighborhoods
Posted by: Histeroo ()
Date: December 23, 2015 12:53PM

In the years following WWI, there was moderate housing growth in Fairfax. One of the big developers, Jeff Thompson, had a great idea to expand housing and make a fortune. So he flew to Germany, changed his name to Adolf Hitler, and started WWII and thereby causing a housing boom in northern Virginia. He eventually married Eva Braun, who was Sharon Bulova's mother.

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