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15. _Site of Ratcliffe Home_ Page 32
16. _Ratcliffe Grave Yard_ Page 32
17. _Earp's Ordinary_ Pages 23, 45
18. _Willard Place_ Page 55
19. _Blenheim_ Page 24
20. _Ratcliffe Race Trace_ Page 32
21. _D'Astre Place_ Page 37
22. _Richardson House_ Page 38
23. _Site of Judge Thomas House_ Page 37
24. _Oliver Building_ Pages 25, 44
25. _Farr Home_ Page 22

CONTENTS

_Introduction_ 6

I. _Jamestown_ 7

II. _Rebellion_ 10

III. _The Gentry and the Convicts_ 14

IV. _The Push Inward_ 17

V. _The Town_ 23

VI. _The Revolutionary War_ 26

VII. _The Court House_ 29

VIII. _Development of the Town_ 36

IX. _The Civil War in Fairfax_ 43

X. _Spies_ 53

XI. _Stealing of Important Papers_ 57

XII. _Reconstruction_ 61

_Bibliography_ 68

_Index_ 69

A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF FAIRFAX

_When man reaches out into space to explore a new planet, his
adventure will be comparable in many ways to that of the colonists
who braved the space of water in the early seventeenth century to
establish their proprietary rights on a strange continent called
"America"._

_These colonists found themselves confronted with the need to feed,
house and clothe themselves with unknown and untried materials
reaped from a wilderness which hid their enemy, the red man, and
housed the dread mosquito which carried the deadly malaria._

_Proof of their danger lies in the history of the Jamestown Colony.
Being attacked by red savages upon landing at the malaria infested
Jamestown and inexperienced with survival under wilderness
conditions, the colonists were reduced to eating their own dead
before help finally arrived._

_Strengthened in number and sustained by food and help brought by
Lord de la