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Title: Frying Pan Farm

Author: Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Release Date: July 24, 2010 [EBook #33243]

Language: English

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FRYING PAN FARM

By Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Office of Comprehensive Planning
Fairfax County, Virginia

September, 1979

FAIRFAX COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

John F. Herrity, Chairman
Martha V. Pennino, Vice Chairman
Joseph Alexander
Warren I. Cikins
Alan H. Magazine
Audrey Moore
James M. Scott
John P. Shacochis
Marie B. Travesky

FAIRFAX COUNTY HISTORY COMMISSION

Donie Rieger, Chairman
John P. Liberty, Vice Chairman
Denzil O. Evans
Bernard N. Boston
C. J. S. Durham
Mary M. Fahringer
Ceres Gaskins
Dana K. Greene
William A. Klene
Virginia B. Peters
Edith M. Sprouse
Mayo S. Stuntz

Gloria M. Matthews, Layout

Carolynn J. Castellucci, Copy Preparation

Library of Congress Catalog Number 79-90519

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations iv
Acknowledgments v
Introduction 1
Part I, Continuity 5
Part II, Change 36
Part III, Professionalization and an Increased Standard of Living 59
Part IV, The New Deal 87
Part V, Community 115
Part VI, Frying Pan Park 126

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Holden Harrison, 1935 6
Harrison dairy barn, 1936 6
McNair Guernsey bull, 1918 7
Interior Harrison dairy barn 7
Spring plowing