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100 Years Ago
Posted by:
Fairfax Remembers
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Date: April 07, 2017 09:51PM
The US entered World War I 100 years ago yesterday. How did World War I affect Fairfax County? Did the federal government seize land in Fairfax or train troops here?
Re: 100 Years Ago
Posted by:
Bubba
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Date: April 08, 2017 10:29AM
100 years ago nigger's knew there place in society.
Re: 100 Years Ago
Posted by:
Her bed
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Date: April 08, 2017 10:59AM
Bubba Wrote:
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> 100 years ago nigger's knew there place in
> society.
Your great grandmother had a place for them
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> 100 years ago nigger's knew there place in
> society.
Your great grandmother had a place for them
Re: 100 Years Ago
Posted by:
fjjf;a
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Date: April 08, 2017 11:19AM
I can't remember the specifics, but I do recall hearing about mustard gas canisters being buried somewhere in fairfax after the war. They were transported from Fort Detrick and buried in what were then just woods. People eventually built homes on top of the dump site, and people got sick.
Re: 100 Years Ago
Posted by:
Joke Insurance
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Date: April 08, 2017 12:15PM
Fairfax Remembers Wrote:
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> The US entered World War I 100 years ago
> yesterday. How did World War I affect Fairfax
> County? Did the federal government seize land in
> Fairfax or train troops here?
Well... there was Camp Alger in Dunn Loring, which was in use during the Spanish-American War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Alger
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> The US entered World War I 100 years ago
> yesterday. How did World War I affect Fairfax
> County? Did the federal government seize land in
> Fairfax or train troops here?
Well... there was Camp Alger in Dunn Loring, which was in use during the Spanish-American War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Alger
Re: 100 Years Ago
Posted by:
fracturedfairfax
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Date: April 08, 2017 12:34PM
Fairfax Remembers Wrote:
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> The US entered World War I 100 years ago
> yesterday. How did World War I affect Fairfax
> County? Did the federal government seize land in
> Fairfax or train troops here?
World War I was directly responsible for the establishment of what is now Fort Belvoir.
In 1910, the Feds bought 1500 acres of Fairfax County to establish a children's reformatory. However, NIMBYism was no less a factor then than it is now, and the facility was instead later constructed in Lorton.
The Army started using the land for training exercises for its Engineer School in 1912, calling the location Camp Belvoir. With the entry of the U.S. into the war, construction really took off. The government bought or condemned a lot of additional land, kicking the Quakers out of Woodlawn and completely surrounding the village of Accotink*, then built a whole shitload of temporary wood frame buildings on the newly renamed Camp A. A. Humphreys.
See also http://www.belvoir.army.mil/history/Humphreys.htm
*This is also why Accotink is now not much more than a tiny remnant along the remaining strip of Backlick Road that intersects with Route 1.
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> The US entered World War I 100 years ago
> yesterday. How did World War I affect Fairfax
> County? Did the federal government seize land in
> Fairfax or train troops here?
World War I was directly responsible for the establishment of what is now Fort Belvoir.
In 1910, the Feds bought 1500 acres of Fairfax County to establish a children's reformatory. However, NIMBYism was no less a factor then than it is now, and the facility was instead later constructed in Lorton.
The Army started using the land for training exercises for its Engineer School in 1912, calling the location Camp Belvoir. With the entry of the U.S. into the war, construction really took off. The government bought or condemned a lot of additional land, kicking the Quakers out of Woodlawn and completely surrounding the village of Accotink*, then built a whole shitload of temporary wood frame buildings on the newly renamed Camp A. A. Humphreys.
See also http://www.belvoir.army.mil/history/Humphreys.htm
*This is also why Accotink is now not much more than a tiny remnant along the remaining strip of Backlick Road that intersects with Route 1.
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