The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Franconia Road once served as a rolling road to bring tobacco hogsheads to the port at Alexandria. The surrounding community derives its name from the "Frankhonia Farm", which sat on a portion of a tract of 191 acres purchased from Joseph Broders of Oak Grove Farm in 1859 by William Fowle, a merchant from Alexandria. Fowle's son, Robert Rollins Fowle, sold 18 acres of the property to the Alexandria & Fredericksburg Railway Company in 1871 for the erection of a railway station, which took its name of the farm. The station was the site of the Garfield Post Office from 1881 until 1890, and again from 1898 until 1907. In 1903, it was relocated after a fire from its original site, near Fleet Drive, to the north side of Franconia Road. The railway station remained in regular service until around 1953. Today, it is memorialized with a historic marker erected by the Fairfax County History Commi…
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Nothing in Franconia is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Franconia has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Huntley in Groveton, 3.4 miles away.
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