anybody know where to find historic aerial photos of the current Dulles area? (preferably from around 1958-1962 and before then)

the landscape of the area which is now dulles was WAY different and me being a obsessed with local history find it really interesting to see what it was like.

from what i know already, an entire town was wiped out (Willard), along with a lot of farms, mansions, and roads, some dating back from civil war times.

i like aerial photos because i can compare ones of different times right next to each other and overlay, and make direct comparisons. there was once a huge mural-photo AT Dulles in the arrivals section on the wall, but its since been taken down.

if anybody has any photos of old buildings/roads/towns that once existed where dulles is, that'd be great too.

if anyone could give me advice on where to get them, or if they could email/attach them here, thatd be awesome. High resolution is encouraged.

if anyones interested, heres an interesting map i found from 1915 that you can use in Google Earth showing the roads:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/553206

,Thank you

library of congress?


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

The US Geological Survey in Reston used to have a map store that was open to the public, and I'm pretty sure they had aerial photographs. They might not keep them in stock, but you could probably special order them. You can try contacting them to see if they can help:

http://ask.usgs.gov/

OR

http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/aerial.html#aerial

(edited post to inlcude extra link)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/08/2008 07:47PM by TheMeeper.

NRO or Russian Embassy

Thanks so much guys, I got my hands on a couple good aerials, which are slightly low res, but they're much better than nothing. They're quite interesting in fact, if any of you have Google Earth, you should take a look.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1128554/an/0/page/0#1128554

turn on the "roads" feature to see how it matches up.

historybuff Wrote:
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> if anyones interested, heres an interesting map i
> found from 1915 that you can use in Google Earth
> showing the roads:
> http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Numb
> er/553206

You can get more old USGS topos at: http://historical.maptech.com/

Anonymous Coward Wrote:
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> historybuff Wrote:
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> -----
> > if anyones interested, heres an interesting map
> i
> > found from 1915 that you can use in Google
> Earth
> > showing the roads:
> >
> http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Numb
>
> > er/553206
>
> You can get more old USGS topos at:
> http://historical.maptech.com/

thanks but i've already looked there and it just has that one map, which I used on my 1915 Google post.

Look on the new post I made with the 1949 aerial, its quite cool.

Theres other Topo maps there too.

http://historical.maptech.com/quad.cfm?quadname=Fairfax&state=VA&series=15

The Southeast one has Fairfax City in it



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great to know fairfax roads were completely fucked up back in 1915 and people have kept the tradition of stupidity alive! the assholes who made the layout of the roads should have been hanged.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

you can thank Robert E. Lee's whole family for that. (Mainly Richard Bland Lee and Henry Lee I)

Jimmy Wrote:
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>Russian Embassy

LOL!

historybuff Wrote:
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> you can thank Robert E. Lee's whole family for
> that. (Mainly Richard Bland Lee and Henry Lee I)


where are their graves? i would like to desecrate them.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

1st floor of the Government Center..they have all sorts of aerial images you can look at, some are from 1936 onward....

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

The Lee family didn't have anything to do with the road situation here in Virginia you young idiots. You must be some Yankee transplant, and as usual have nothing but bad things to say about Robert E. Lee. As for that feller Gravis, I would like to give him a barbed wire enema, all his posts usually are mean spirited, he sounds like some sort of sexually pent up piss ant. I catch you at any grave site messing with any graves and you will be needing a grave site of your own-you little queer!

OLd GRamps Wrote:
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> The Lee family didn't have anything to do with the
> road situation here in Virginia you young idiots.
> You must be some Yankee transplant, and as usual
> have nothing but bad things to say about Robert E.
> Lee. As for that feller Gravis, I would like to
> give him a barbed wire enema, all his posts
> usually are mean spirited, he sounds like some
> sort of sexually pent up piss ant. I catch you at
> any grave site messing with any graves and you
> will be needing a grave site of your own-you
> little queer!


har har (chuckle)

Robert E Lee (the confederate civil war general) owned property which has now been turned into the Arlington National cemetary.

OLd GRamps Wrote:
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> The Lee family didn't have anything to do with the
> road situation here in Virginia you young idiots.
> You must be some Yankee transplant, and as usual
> have nothing but bad things to say about Robert E.
> Lee. As for that feller Gravis, I would like to
> give him a barbed wire enema, all his posts
> usually are mean spirited, he sounds like some
> sort of sexually pent up piss ant. I catch you at
> any grave site messing with any graves and you
> will be needing a grave site of your own-you
> little queer!


I take it you support the enslavement of African-Americans also, Mr. inbred trash?

Non Sequitor.

nice google overlays

You should try historicaerials.com It's exactly what you're looking for

-Brett

Wow that site historicaerials.com is pretty cool, always wondered what it use to look like around here

u should try redtube.com
pretty cool

try charles baptie historic aerial photographs ?

Bump

historybuff Wrote:
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> Thanks so much guys, I got my hands on a couple
> good aerials, which are slightly low res, but
> they're much better than nothing. They're quite
> interesting in fact, if any of you have Google
> Earth, you should take a look.
>
> http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Numb
> er/1128554/an/0/page/0#1128554
>
> turn on the "roads" feature to see how it matches
> up.

Anything more than 25 years old is going to be "low resolution" as that's all there was. It is interesting to see how few houses were around Dulles when it was built in 1962. It's why I have zero fucks to give to people out there that complain about the airplane noise. Same for the neighborhoods around National, which was built on reclaimed land in 1940 to replace the airlield that was on the land where the Pentagon now sits.

Fairfax County GIS and Mapping Service has comprehensive aerials for selected years back to 1937. Google that to find and download the viewer.

In the Colonial Era and even as late as the 1850s people in Northern Virginia weren't that interested in travelling to and from Washington DC. They wanted to get to the nearest port, Alexandria. That is why Little River Turnpike and Leesburg Pike and why Northern Virginia's rail networks radiate out from Alexandria rather than from Washington DC.

Actually Hoover Field didn't touch where the Pentagon is, but close. It was located where the current Boundary Channel cloverleaf is to get on and off I395. It was where Connector Rd and Long Bridge Drive used to meet.

Hoover Field is at the bottom of this picture. Washington Field was directly across Long Bridge Dr to the east. They eventually merged and then were replaced by DCA which moved along it an area filled in north east of Washington Field (its current location).