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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM113Y_florence-jodzies_Oakton-VA.html
Here in 1934, at her home Harmony Farm, Florence Jodzies founded the Vale Home Demonstration Club, affiliated with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. An excellent speaker and writer, Jodzies campaigned for better living conditions in rura…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWR_vale-school-vale-community-house_Oakton-VA.html
Vale School was built as a one-room public school ca. 1884. A second room was added in 1912. The school closed in 1931 when many small Fairfax County schools were consolidated. In 1934, women of this farming community formed Vale Home Demonstratio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNNA_hunter-mill-road_Oakton-VA.html
Considered to be a main north/south route from Fairfax Court House. Hunter Mill Road served as a key passageway for Union and Confederate traffic during the Civil War. The road was used to travel to and from the great battles of First and Second M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KW_ira-noel-gabrielson_Oakton-VA.html
Oakton resident Dr. Ira Noel Gabrielson was a pioneer conservationist, distinguished field ornithologist, and renowned author. He served as the first director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and an international leader of conservation projec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KU_waples-mill_Oakton-VA.html
Approximately 1,200 feet southeast of this marker, on the west side of Difficult Run, was located Waple's Mill. George Henry Waple built it in 1867. For twenty-three years beginning in 1890 the grist and sawmill was owned and operated by Edward Mi…