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1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: N4vpM ()
Date: September 15, 2016 07:42PM

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/maps/photo.htm

Click on "Historic Imagery Viewer"

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: DbJeN ()
Date: September 15, 2016 07:43PM

Occoquan Reservoir - dry
Lorton Prison - still operational

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: FdJtx ()
Date: September 15, 2016 07:48PM

There was nothing here.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: theblindman ()
Date: September 15, 2016 07:50PM

Does this have anything of import ants of the individual in Fairfax county?

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: idiots abound ()
Date: September 15, 2016 09:11PM

No. We prefer domestic ants.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: September 15, 2016 09:21PM

I know. It’s cool.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: phelpsmarc ()
Date: September 19, 2016 02:16PM

Amazing.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: Stuck in traffic... ()
Date: September 19, 2016 02:28PM

I've been using that site since it was released because I love historical maps and imagery.

Announcing it here makes me feel like someone told all the commuters my secret traffic shortcut and now I'm just one of the regular slugs stuck in traffic again.

That aside, it is a great site and reveals some very interesting details on the entire county over time. Makes you want to take your metal detector and wonder in someone's backyard.

The data would fit right in on the "Old pictures of Fairfax County..." thread.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: phelpsmarc ()
Date: September 19, 2016 03:37PM

I looked at the neighborhood I grew up in as well as the one in which I live now and went back through each era back to '37

Wow.

Too bad there is nothing between '53 and '97 though. Could have seen the gradual change.

Speaking of metal detectors, my older brother's friend used one in the '60s in our neighborhood (Woodlawn Manor, between Mt. Vernon Country Club and Grist Mill park) and found an old Indian Arrowhead.

The Dogue Indians were there until the 1600's



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2016 03:40PM by phelpsmarc.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: September 19, 2016 09:03PM

phelpsmarc Wrote:
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> Speaking of metal detectors, my older brother's
> friend used one in the '60s in our neighborhood
> (Woodlawn Manor, between Mt. Vernon Country Club
> and Grist Mill park) and found an old Indian
> Arrowhead.
>
> The Dogue Indians were there until the 1600's

So, not to pick a fight, but I gotta ask: how did a metal detector find him a stone arrowhead?

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: ddwju ()
Date: September 19, 2016 09:27PM

That's been live on the county website since about October 2015.

Prince William Co here:
http://www.historicprincewilliam.org/maps/1937-aerial-photos-pwc.html

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: ueVWt ()
Date: September 19, 2016 09:47PM

N4vpM Wrote:
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> http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/maps/photo.htm
>
> Click on "Historic Imagery Viewer"

Thanks for sharing. I was just looking for this the other day and didn't know where to find it.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: September 19, 2016 09:55PM

Is there one for Arlington, anyone know? Once I briefly looked, but was unsuccessful.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: ddwju ()
Date: September 19, 2016 10:07PM

http://gis.arlingtonva.us/gallery/map.html?webmap=28ea281cba6a4a5a8050df04c7fbb478

Play around with the LAYERS tab on upper right and you'll figure it out... not as user friendly as some

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: phelpsmarc ()
Date: September 20, 2016 03:51PM

Greybeard Wrote:
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> phelpsmarc Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Speaking of metal detectors, my older brother's
> > friend used one in the '60s in our neighborhood
> > (Woodlawn Manor, between Mt. Vernon Country
> Club
> > and Grist Mill park) and found an old Indian
> > Arrowhead.
> >
> > The Dogue Indians were there until the 1600's
>
> So, not to pick a fight, but I gotta ask: how did
> a metal detector find him a stone arrowhead?


Good question

My brother told me the story.

Maybe his friend was BSing.

Maybe the Dogue had metal arrow heads.

I am definitely not an expert on the subject.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/2016 03:53PM by phelpsmarc.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: Heavy Metal ()
Date: September 20, 2016 04:24PM

North American Indians did not have much in the way of metal pre-Columbian. Some cold hammered copper was about it. Perhaps some trading with South American Indians, who were getting quite good at metallurgy, or with early European/Viking settlers may have supplied the Dogue Indians, but for the most part they were stone tools only.

Arrowhead may have been near a piece of metal jewelry, or the poster was bullshitting us.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: phelpsmarc ()
Date: September 20, 2016 06:50PM

Heavy Metal Wrote:
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> North American Indians did not have much in the
> way of metal pre-Columbian. Some cold hammered
> copper was about it. Perhaps some trading with
> South American Indians, who were getting quite
> good at metallurgy, or with early European/Viking
> settlers may have supplied the Dogue Indians, but
> for the most part they were stone tools only.
>
> Arrowhead may have been near a piece of metal
> jewelry, or the poster was bullshitting us.

I was the poster

I was just rehashing what I was told. True, the friend of my bro may have bsing or found it near a metal object.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: 4nCw7 ()
Date: September 20, 2016 08:06PM

We're the Dogue Indians burning Fairfax down (the forest that was Fairfax once upon a time) were they burning it down when European settlers began migrating north from Rappahanock area? I read that in a book once. Thought it was interested. The idea was that they would have burned down all he trees to the Shenandoah if Europeans hadn't shown them how to limit burning.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: theLostYears ()
Date: September 20, 2016 10:53PM

Are they digitizing the media for that 40-year gap? 1953-1997 are much more interesting years than 1997-present.

All of the 60s, 70s, and 80s are missing!

You do get to see how different Hunter Woods Plaza was in 1997 - back when it was safe.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: XwcwW ()
Date: September 20, 2016 11:58PM

Just one shack on the GMU property. Should go there with a metal detector..

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: phelpsmarc ()
Date: September 22, 2016 11:38AM

theLostYears Wrote:
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> Are they digitizing the media for that 40-year
> gap? 1953-1997 are much more interesting years
> than 1997-present.
>
> All of the 60s, 70s, and 80s are missing!
>
> You do get to see how different Hunter Woods Plaza
> was in 1997 - back when it was safe.


I think they will

It said they have images from those missing years but haven't gone up yet.

Yes, it would be cool to see more gradual change from early 50s to 80s

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: phelpsmarc ()
Date: September 23, 2016 07:33AM

Heavy Metal Wrote:
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> North American Indians did not have much in the
> way of metal pre-Columbian. Some cold hammered
> copper was about it. Perhaps some trading with
> South American Indians, who were getting quite
> good at metallurgy, or with early European/Viking
> settlers may have supplied the Dogue Indians, but
> for the most part they were stone tools only.
>
> Arrowhead may have been near a piece of metal
> jewelry, or the poster was bullshitting us.


My brother says it was a stone arrowhead. His friend showed it to him. The friend found it after he hit on a piece of metal while searching near a trestle for the old street carl line near Union Farm in the MV area. The street car line was torn up in the 1930's but the trestle remained.

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: September 23, 2016 08:04AM

there you go! interesting story as well thx

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: Woodrow Howe ()
Date: September 23, 2016 08:10AM

I grew up in a house that still mounds in the backyard from trenches dug during the war (it was between 2 forts). We would always find bullets back there - the old lady who had lived there forever said something along the lines that soldiers were issued 10 bullets and the carrying case only held 8, so they would throw the extra 2 in the woods. Do that for a few years and you get quite a collection!!!

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Re: 1937 Aerial Imagery of Fairfax County
Posted by: originzq ()
Date: September 23, 2016 10:10PM

Woodrow Howe Wrote:
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> I grew up in a house that still mounds in the
> backyard from trenches dug during the war (it was
> between 2 forts). We would always find bullets
> back there - the old lady who had lived there
> forever said something along the lines that
> soldiers were issued 10 bullets and the carrying
> case only held 8, so they would throw the extra 2
> in the woods. Do that for a few years and you get
> quite a collection!!!


So that's where they got the idea to put a different number of hot dog buns in a package than they do hot dogs!

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