The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area was farm land until planned development of the office parks and neighborhoods began in the 1980s and 1990s.
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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CommonsStrip mall shops, Fair Lakes CDP, Fairfax County, VA2017
CommonsShopping center entrance, Fair Lakes CDP, Fairfax County, VA2017
CommonsEntrance to Fair Lakes development, Fair Lakes CDP, Farfax …2017
CommonsCondo complex, Fair Lakes CDP, Fairfax County, VA2017
CommonsCars and condos, Fair Lakes CDP, Fairfax County, VA2017
Commons2016-10-28 13 51 02 View south along U.S. Route 29 (Lee Hig…2016National Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Fair Lakes is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Fair Lakes has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Hope Park Mill and Miller's House in Braddock, 2.9 miles away.
Fair Lakes and the nearest listed places
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How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Hope Park Mill and Miller's House’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Fair Lakes?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Fair Lakes’s story, or a memory of it.
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.