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Annandale, VA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Annandale a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Annandale Home page. The Annandale Home page provides as much information as possible on Annandale. Knowing Annandale’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Annandale’s Home page, you will also find Annandale’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Annandale has a population of 42240. 50.1% of Annandale’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.9 are female. 48.1% of Annandale is married and 64.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $508,559, and the average rent is $1,673. Household median income in Annandale is $101,121, and the individual median income is $38,955. Annandale’s Ethnic is the following: White(44.3%), Hispanic(29.6%), Asian(24.3%), Other(16.7%), Black(8.9%), Multiple(4.7%), Native(0.6%), Pacific(0.4%).
When Europeans arrived in the 17th century, the area around Annandale, which would become Fairfax County, was inhabited by an Algonquian-speaking sub-group called the Taux, also known as the Doeg or Dogue. In 1685, an Englishman, Col. William H. Fitzhugh, purchased over 24,000 acres (37.5 square miles) of wilderness in the area and converted it into one of the largest tobacco plantations in Northern Virginia.
It stretched from current day Fairfax City to Springfield and Falls Church and south to Pohick Church. Fitzhugh’s descendants later named it "Ravensworth." For over six generations, the Fitzhugh family farmed at Ravensworth and slowly sold off portions of the land.In 1830 the community of Annandale was named by a Scottish settler, after the town named Annan located at the mouth of the River Annan.
Annandale followed nearby Dumfries to become the second place in Dumfriesshire to become the name of a settlement in Virginia. In 1806, the Little River Turnpike (now Virginia State Route 236) had been completed through the community, connecting it with Alexandria and Fairfax. In 1808, the Columbia Pike (now Virginia State Route 244) was built, connecting the District of Columbia with Little River Turnpike in what is now Annandale.
The first businessman to locate in Annandale was William Garges, who built a blacksmith shop and a livery stable at the intersection of Columbia Pike, Little River Turnpike and Backlick Road, which would become the center of town. Garges became the first postmaster at the Annandale Post Office, which opened in 1837.
Small farms and businesses grew up around the town and its first church, the Annandale Methodist Chapel, was built in 1846.The American Civil War touched Annandale several times between 1861 and 1865. Union troops defending the vicinity of Washington, D.C., frequently took positions in and around the town.
Confederate forces probing those defenses skirmished with them from time to time. The Methodist Chapel, which had fallen into disrepair during the war, was dismantled by Union troops to obtain construction materials in 1863.After the war, farmers and businessmen returned to their pursuits and dairy farming began to grow in Fairfax County.
Small communities continued to develop or grow near railroad stations and the dairy farms. Residents would build stores, churches and schools for their communities. By 1925, Fairfax County contained more dairy farms than any other county in Virginia. In the 1930s and 1940s, work in the area for the federal government grew as President Franklin D.
Roosevelt implemented the New Deal and the United States entered World War II.After World War II, growth continued, with housing developments in suburbs like Annandale accompanied by businesses, schools, and roads to support the new residents. The suburbs became “bedroom communities” with many residents commuting to work in Washington or surrounding small cities.
That trend has continued to today with further growth and many residents now commuting to work in Northern Virginia as well as in and around Washington.
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