- THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, T>. C.. MAT 23. 1927-PART 2. 11

,I‘. 1 \ J Arlington County Envisions Progressive City in ' • New Near Future I a I ' Rapid Development SCENES IN ARLINGTON COUNTY, CAPITAL’S NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR ON THE SOUTH Earl Indirectly Gave jln Homes Has ~ Name to Section

••• ** Followed. World 7“ . -t. . -p.- *¦••;:***n; • * • ' In Stuart " " * .< .. War. '/V ¦ .. * Era. .... y I**" ...... ’ Has Many Gardens. Past Aristocratic. ; Area Is Almost En- Wilderness and * tirely Suburban. Rougk Characters Industries Reigned But ) jfc Sought. Recently. *-...'1 11 BY THOMAS R. HENRY hardly can he said to he developing Arlington County, , is the as population centers. There la the Mra. 1927 of Washington’s suburbs. old village of Barcroft, on the Columbia ; Pike half between t . The gawky little girl next ery County and those two delight- only village in the county which is ful, white-haired grandmothers, Fair- not the direct result of a real estate - fa* and Prince Georges Counties. development. Fifty years ago there ‘ Lively Mrs. Arlington has no old- was a schoolhouse there with a few fashioned Ideas to curdle her delight houses grouped around it. It has in mere living. been built up house by house. The * She grew up a neglected child. The community made little real progress neighbors rather turned up their until the World War sent Government noses at her in the days, not long clerks out of crowded Washington to past, when she was playing with seek lower rents and purer air in the ! her rag dolls and making mud pies suburbs. on the Potomac banks. Few saw Rosslyn, at the Virginia end of Key the beauty of complexion and feature Bridge, is now a thriving business tinder the grime on her face. The community with a bank, numerous great alteration came during the hec- atores, and the offices of the Washing- tfc days Immediately after the World ton & Old Dominion Railroad. It ia War when the so-called ‘‘younger becoming a manufacturing center. J generation” type In American life Probably it ia the oldest settlement waa established. in the county and takes its name from the Rosslyn farm in the neigh- Plenty of Cash. borhood, owned before the Civil War A alick-halred city chap named by a Gen. Ross. There was a village “Subdivision” fell in love with the there, called West Haven, during the girl, courted her and married her. war. plenty of He waa & banker’s son with One Incorporated ready cash to lavish on his bride. Town. He bought her silk dresses and sil- Arllngt' n County has only one in- ver dancing shoes. She had her own corporated tow’n, Potomac, near Alex- ~ ~ andria. This * car and a spick-and-span bungalow ‘ , is the result of three and a sleeping =\*J=rr- subdivisions opened by a New York with a bathroom the First. The family had been ruined Washington’s survey marks, set down Heights which appealed to him be- borhood used to pick up pailfuls of are being reared —— —, concern almost simultaneously with porch. Their babies in the Rebellion. The best position Sir when the District borders were ( ; cause of the splendid scenio possibili- bullets there with which to make according to pamphlets issued by the tho first development at Ballston. John was able to obtain was that of marked, still can be found in the ties it offered. He purchased it at a slugs to shoot birds. There were two Potomac has Children’s Bureau. military of the Isle of Wight, county. developed rapidly since remembering governor price that seemed exorbitant in those houses near the town site—the Nes- the war and has its own Gay Mrs. Arlington, dissipated life shocked the The land was thickly forested. Set- days, although town govern- childhood, where his it would be extremely meth farmhouse and the home of ment and police system. her poverty-stricken con- inhabitants so greatly that they asked tlers were few. There were occasional cheap today. Clarence "Welch. fesses to an Impulse some- direction Alex- The subdivisions are served by the Irresistible for his recall. fine houses in the of Admiral Rixey clung to the property By 1900 the foundations of the Washington-Alexandria times to stick out her tongue at her Culpeper recalled the ill-defined Vir- andria, but elsewhere the Arlington street railway. drive her through discouraging years. The present Clarendon had been laid. The They may eventually become sedate older neighbors and ginia grants to his father and sought mansion was the one notable land- longer he lived there the more dis- Spanish-American War had produced a part car, 1927 model, past their homes farmhouses were of the Alexandria corporation. The new to have them renewed, with the idea mark. The few tinct became his vision of an Arling- a suburban boom somewhat of the community *just to arouse their envy. But for that some little badly needed revenue rudely constructed and the land was life is closely associated time ton County which would constitute an same nature, although of far less with that of the larger city—much all that, she spends most of her might be extracted from the new land. not well adapted to agriculture. It intrinsic part of the National Capital. proportions, than that which duties and came more closely than with the Clarendon- at home with household Through the intercession of his did not appear that the slowly pro- He was obliged to ride horseback to later to the environs of Washington , church ' ¦WSSIjIiSriS Ballston-Cherrydale *he Is a regular attendant at friend Bennet, he was given a royal gressing city of Washington ever and from Washington through a coun- with the World War. population and although she may A few Gov- business center. *on the Sabbath, patent by Charles to the entire north- would engulf this rough, if pictur- try infested with “bad men” as pic- ernment clerks began to take up to the golf links as soon as serv- It was There are some curious old wills ’ go ern neck of Virginia. esque, territory. ceded back turesque as those of the middle border. homes in Clarendon. Other subdi- in the ices are Her' home life is as This act of personal ends by act of Congress. county courthouse which give over. that friendship There was, for instance, the appro- visions were started in the neighbor- .a picturesque touch to the early daya. substantial and respectable as the Earl of Arlington’s personal con- The Arlington estate was inherited below tbe hood, of the land titles coming Grandmother Fairfax, although priately named valley just most The most valued is the parchment of her nection with the New World. Culpeper from George Washington Parke Cus- present Lyon Village toward Wash- from Dr. A. A. E. Taylor of St. It the stiff corsets of tradi- tis by his only daughter, Mary Anne document made in England in 1813 toy hasn't made two brief visits to his palatinate. ington on the Lee Highway—"Dead Louis, who had come into the prop- which Sarah Fairfax notifies to hamper it. His rapacity tended anger Randolph Custis, who had married, “all and tion to the set- Man’s Hollow.” It was a place of erty through marriage. singular, the in Christ” Arlington County. Just across the tlers. There was world of differ- some say against the wishes of her difficult faithful of the a hold-ups and murders. It is to draw a line today bequest of her property Potomac from the National Capital, is ence between this visionless knight father, a young lieutenant of Engi- between Clarendon to Rev. area. It is, ac- 40 and Ballston. Bryan, Lord Fairfax, her nephew. square miles In and the other great royal proprietor neers named Robert E. Lee, the de- Years Ago. They run into each For all cording to the local Chamber of Com- scendant of a distinguished Virginia other. Among the most curious is the last in America—George Calvert, baron of This*was years ago. There practical purposes there is one of Harry the smallest county in Virginia Baltimore. From family, but with no financial prospects 40 was testament Piper, “merchant merce, Culpeper the grant no means of communication with the thickly settled community running of Alexandria,” and, with one exception, in the United descended to and was confirmed in beyond his Army pay. In any event, with its clause: “My is Capital. Dr. Rixey, who had fre- from Heights through faithful servant Charles hath served States. All of Its western portion the person of his grandson, Thomas the father's will stipulated that she Ballston, overlooking dome quent night calls to the bedsides of with its business center in me long and I hope from my treat- on elevated land the Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, who was was to have control of the property Clarendon. Here is post Capitol. The county is almost her patients in Washington, constructed the office, a ment of him during the time of hia of the the first of the proprietors ever to during life, but that it was to his own branch of the Washington office, with servitude exclusively suburban. Agriculture is visit the land now pass upon her death to her son, telephone line with poles cut he has seldom had reason covered by Arling- from his farm. How he got his wire city mail delivery, all the chain stores, to feel the pain being Many of its ton County. Fairfax, solemn, George Washington Custis Lee, only of his a slave, practically non-existent. a pro- Highway says, still two banks, a volunteer fire depart- and advise look to the day found young man, apparently on the condition that he dropped the across Bridge, he fortune might go hard Inhabitants forward repre- It accomplished ment and five or six churches. with him. Therefore my in the near future when it will not be sented the finest type of British pio- name of Lee and used that of Custis. is a secret. was as It Is will and personal favor by patient familiar Throughout this section there is desire that if he be In my possession a county at all but a suburban city—- neer. He was a man of culture. Some This condition', however, may not have a a 1 with the construction of the bridge. the constant ring of the carpenter's at the time of my death he be then an integral part of the National Cap- say he wrote one of the anonymous indicated any animosity against the The first concrete fruit of Admiral hammer as new homes are construct- set free. If is not convenient for me ital, but with its own local govern- articles in the Spectator. He was dis- lieutenant on the part of his father- ed subdivisions. s gusted in-law, who naturally did desire Rixey’s vision came in 1908, when the on new All these to comply with the laws of this colony ment. with the dull, artificial life of not to clusters of population for setting yet the British He have the Custis family name lost for- Washington Golf and Country Club converge on slaves free, I hope Houses Are New. court. went to Vir- was located in what had been his cow Clarendon, which will be the mercan- while he continues to behave well, if ginia and remained there for the rest ever. tile he hardly exaggeration to say pasture. This in the intervening and financial district of the city chooses*it, he may continue to live It is an of his life. Fairfax had much to do of the future. in that 80 per cent of ita houses have with House Suddenly Abandoned. years has formed the nucleus for the Here is located the this colony unmolested, but if there developing the character of county Chamber of Commerce, which should be any danger of his been constructed during the past eight George Washington. continued to live at the fine most pretentious home development being Lee country, growth is striving to advertise throughout the taken up and sold I hope I shall ' years. high in the the great of Most of them are of a old mansion overlooking the Capital United have some friends quality of construction and represent- Clash of Characters. which has come since the World War. States the advantages of the left to Interfere with his family—his wife was an in- area for homes and for small manu- in his behalf. It is my desire that if lng the most progressive ideas in It Is an Interesting coincidence that valid—during the years he was on No. I, Lee Mansion, Arlington National Cemetery; No. 2, view overlooking Admiral Rixey now' is enjoying the the Potomac the name of the principal culmination of his vision. His home, facturing. such should he the case he may be architectural art. Across town in Ar- duty in Washington. He used to ride Virginia Highlands, one of the county’s many pretty residential sections; seht to England or any other ona can aee the foundations of a mod- lington County should be Clarendon. on horseback from Arlington to the scene in the business monument topping the hill above the country Fight for Recognition. place he No. 3, section of Clarendon; No. 4, historic may choose and the expenses of his ern city which has sprung up without Whether the real estate developer re- War Department in fine weather. on which is inscribed “On this spot stood an oak tree hearing a survey mark club and surrounded with spacious Just down the road, part gardens, of a of the passage be paid by my executors.” any deliberate planning and very sponsible for the latter name was During the Winter he sometimes made by George Washington, which became a monumental survey mark lawns and is one the most same general community, is Fort rapidly. aware of the relations of Sir Henry would stay all night in town because — named In many deeds. Erected by the Ciencarlyn C’o-operative Association, beautiful in nearby Virginia. But he Myer Heights, w'here County School System. Bennet is located the Just now its hills ara garlanded with and Sir Edward Hyde, Earl of how times have changed—of the poor approved by N. 8. D. A. R.”; No. 5. leaving Cherry dale for Washington along looks ahead to greater days. He is Arlington County Courthouse. When The school Clarendon, one of the most enthusiastic backers system of Arlington blossoming rosea climbing over bunga- cannot be ascertained. condition of ,the roads. The old man- the Lee Highway; No. 6, the Washington and Lee High School, type of struc- the territory was ceded back to Vir- County deserves more than a pass- low porches like May day dresses Probably he merely selected sion witnessed In those days a ture completed school building program; the home of the “City of Arlington”project, and on a % se- included in recently No. 7, ginia from the District of Columbia, ing mention. It ia euphonious name for Rixey, of is anxious to see a city plan, with pro- everywhere on a school children—white Silver Moons his subdivision cluded family life, with prayer before of Rear Admiral P. M. one the county’s show places. as Alexandria County, the courthouse par with the best city systems. without considering evening guests. Among vision for spacious parks, to guide The and Scarlet Climbers mingling in ex- its connotation. meals and few was located at Alexandria. But the county has erected 16 new buildings . qulsite silken designs with yellow- Hyde, lord chancellor of England the most frequent of the latter was the real estate development. city was an within after the of the outer defenses of Washing- amateurs with the pistol. At the first entirely separate political the past year equipped with stamened Reve d’ors and American Restoration, was the invete- another young Army officer, Lee’s unit. It was particularly to playgrounds, rate enemy of Arlington, The ton. Remnants of a few of these exchange Randolph hit the stump and Men of Vision. galling lunchrooms and all the Pillars. The peonies and the Irises latter classmate at West Point and closest the county residents that they should most modern educational equipment. in full flush of blossoms in the was suave, crafty, and ingratiating. friend in Washington—Joseph E. still can be found. Those born In Clay the gravel bank. From the repelling desolation first are the The the county within the last 30 years The second time the by Mr. Douglas has the be obliged to go out of their own ter- There are two high schools, one at back yard gardens. Arlington former was cold, stern, repelling Johnston. Virginian did seen evolved ritory Mrs. and remember about the old bat- not fire. Clay’s bullet passed through garden spot which to transact public business. Potomac serving the eastern and garden with high ideals of personal and his family suddenly aban- playing now crowns the one tends her and loves it. sites. But unfortunately most a fold of his coat. As soon as the Alexandria had no particular desire at Ballston serving the western sec- is plenty of aristocratic blood honesty to which he clung tenaciously doned the house on April 12, 1861. tery Potomac bluffs. It was a slow evolu- thwart their There through of the defenses have disap- Kentuckian had fired, Randolph ad- years to wishes. Mr. Douglas tions. Grade schools are located con- veins of tha young all the changes of office and Ten days later at Richmond he ac- traces tion. For more than 30 it had was in tha matron-y- probably peared. Maps are available giving vanced toward him with outstretched barely progress. a leader in the fight for the re- veniently for every pupif. --although she doesn’t harp upon It and fortune. He would feel cepted the commission as commander- made noticeable The moval of the The little complimented having the exact locations. In many cases, hand. Clay grasped it. National Capital, in so far as it ex- courthouse, which re- one-room county school, so prev- one might not suspect It to talk with at a town in-chief of the Confederate Army. sulted victory through passed alent In the of "Clarendon’' In an "Arlington’’ however, dwelling houses have been “I think you owe me a new coat, panded at all, was moving in other di- in a bill rest of Virginia, has prao- her. But she could join the Daugh- The estate was left to the tender Mr. Clay,” said by the Virginia Legislature 30 years tloally disappeared. There county. of the enemy. the built on the old sites. When this Randolph. rections. But the desolated land was are, la ters of tlie American Revolution any mercies During "Thank God the debt ago. fact, two left and Supt. Kemp The rights of Culpeper In the lifetime of Mrs. Lee no effort was semicircle is wanted for a pictur- is no greater,” not without Its men of vision who wishes 4§y ehepanted to file her application esque park drive through the new city said Clay. The matter of location was a bone to keep them as long as possible as ¦pd her sons can get into the Scions northern neck were not universally made to reclaim it. looked down upon the great dome of an recognized and in of Arlington it will be difficult and foresaw' the day some contention. Ordinarily the educational experiment. There is Colonial Cavaliers without trouble. some grants were Congress 1861 levied a special County Was Junk Pile. across the river and a great deal #t made over his head. In 1660 on all expensive to clear the locations. city would courthouse becomes the nucleus of to be said, he holds, for She line runs straight back to tha a grant war tax the States with author- At the end of the Civil War Alexan- when the tides of the the largest and thriving the old of 6,000 acres, W’hich Includes all the ization to seize and sell property in There were two systems of forts. sweep up to them. most town in one-room country school, where pay, colorful court of Charles II and city of Alexandria The first was a broad semi-circle dria County was a junk pile, although the county. This is particularly true all grades are lumped together. It and ail the eastern those commonwealths which did not no Credit for the evolution of Arlington has ftis verse-writing cavaliers. part starting at Fort Ethan Allen at Chain there had been actual fighting on in Virginia and Maryland. advantages which cannot be du- But Mrs. of Arlington County, was made meet their obligation. Virginia, of its War County must be accorded the much- Arlington makes light of directly, as from Bridge and extending out to Fort soil. blights nature by its It finally was located on the r.«wly ln the consolidated school. all this Just remember the crown, to one course, did not pay. The Arlington presence alone. The corn and oat abused real estate developer The With the now. She will Robert Howson by Sir about property Ramsey in Fairfax County between thriving established subdivision of Fort Myer Increasing population, of gets little William estate was the handiest fields had been tramped into solid present communities are al- course, a general it only when she a fat, with Berkely, Governor of Virginia. The lay Falls Church and Baileys Cross Roads, Heights. Land was donated by Dan- system of one-room ¦ the Government could hands on, floors of grassless clay by the feet of most entirely the products of subdi- schools would he her children off to school and plenty of land now covered by the western half But a tented city had sprung up Between these two forts were battery without which the iel K. Truman and George P. Robin- out of the question. hands. At present she ’ on thousands of soldiers drilling across vision operations, son. But the er as a s °hool Km*‘on her of county courthouse acted more - 'y population the was granted by Lord the hills across the Potomac. The emplacements. them for four years. earlier settlers hardly could have been iQ.»«T19-5 of about in needs all her leisure time for tennis. Fairfax to George Mason of Gunston surgeon’s staff of tbe Hospital Most of the trees or less as a boomerang. Fort Myer 6.000, of which about Corps Ring of Fortifications. had been cut down for firewood or to induced to leave the city. The first of 90 per cent was Hall, signer of the Declaration of’ was located Arlington. Heights did not become a thriving white. The classes Named After Karl. at Officers clear the view. The hillsides were these developments was Ballston, Instead are In charge of 127 Independence, from whom it was in- were billeted in the mansion. The second was a narrower semi- foundations town. the business center teachers. Be- The scarred with ugly trenches. Every- whose were laid in 1895. grew up road, and 1925 the Earl of Arlington, from whom herited by his son John. Government made no effort to realize circle to which the was where were The first subdivision was created by a mile farther on the school pop- ISIS discarded gun stocks, bar- at Clarendon. ulatlon increased ths county Indirectly derives Its name, on the property until January 11, as a loose bowstring, starting at rels, canteens, mess James E. Clemence, who had come It brought only a per approximately 225 history, Court Fight Won. Rosslyn and arranged in the follow- kits, abandoned string of lawyers’ Suburban- cent, and the increase has ha* small part In American 1864, when it was put up at public ordnance, clothing thrown away. For into the county as a country school offices. even more been the courtly and un- Howson sold his land In 1669 to auction for taxes. It bid ing order to Alexandria: Fort F. C. ites did not fancy the neighborhood of rapid during the past two Second’s John- 1 was in by years afterward junk dealers were teacher and later was admitted to the or three years which rupulous secretary of state cer- Alexander of Bellehaven, the * the United States for $26,000. In 1860 Smith. Fort Bennett, Fort Strong, busy collecting Uie jail. have marked present Alexandria. It continued Fort this rubbish. bar in Alexandria. The and the greatest influx of inly never stepped foot on these in it had been assessed for $34,000. Fort Haggerty, Morton, Fort Cor- Here and there log house. The subdivision located at new thriving communities of suburbanites fiarles the direct line of the Alexander ¦ Woodbury, Fort Cass, Fort was a was Lyon Park across the few square miles of oak and chestnut coran, Fort Rarely, indeed, could imposing Crossroads, junction and Ashton Heights, taking Potomac. The school family, with various being Government Gets Title. Whipple (how Myer), Tilling- a more Balls at the of respective Property has a flpceate which were to perpetuate his tracts sold Fort Fort building present their names from the de- valuation of s2£ per be seen. It was an almost the Wilson boulevard and s ° In the New "World. Probably he from time to time, until 1730, when This did not settle the matter. In hast, Fort McPherson on the present complete velopers, form integral parts of the hlgl * *• th>t »• title Lord Fairfax, disdainful of Berkely’s 1 National desolation. A less Inviting Glebe road, where there were three ijpver heard of the locality. Few men May, 1877, George Washington Custis site of the Cemetery, Fort strip of country for shop suburban development of which Clar- patents, granted the whole tract to 1 Craig, Fort Albany, Fort Richardson, the home-seeker houses, a blacksmith's and a endon is Were less likely to have ventured into ’ Lee unexpectedly called into question hardly could have imagined. Presbyterian Probably the business center. Clar- Has Thirty-two one Thomas Robertson. The Alexan- Fort Berry, Fort Scott, Fort Barnard, been The church. the endon's great Churches. the hardships of a rude unsettled land ’ not only the validity of the tax sale land was of little value for farming. church was the chief attraction for rival is Cherrydale, on are 32 scholarly diplomat, writer of ders defended their rights in court of the clause his . , Fort the Lee Highway, with Lee Heights chur ches in the county, than this ; hut in grandfather’s There were no transportation facili- the settlement. Its communicants located a* after the and won. In 1748 the controversy which Worth, and Fort Ells- and Lyon Village from which its follows: Baptist. In Balls- cold and polished couplets will would have required him ties to attract the suburbanite across were northerners who had taken up B hwrydale, style frlpnd Waller, whose crafty was ended finally by an act of the * drop his father’s name worth at Shooters’ Hill near Alexan- stores can draw trade and its churches £ Clarendon. of his House of Burgesses to in order to the Potomac. It would have required farms In the county after the war. Dei’ R s°v" 0 Mver Heights double-dealing had much do with confirming the Inherit the property. After long dria. The headquarters of this sys- membership. Cherrydale. established Ingston ? and Llv- to i rights of all the holders of Berkely’s a an active imagination to construct This Was the second church in Heights;i/. the eventful downfall of the Stuarts. ! and involved legal fight the Govern- tem of defenses w'as at even an about 1900, is the first born child of Episcopal, in Cherry, patents in the northern neck terri- betwreen Rosslyn and Fort Myer. approximation of the scenic Arlington County. The first. Mount dale, Maywood. Heights. Sir Henry Rennet, nose scarred for ment finally obtained a clear title beauty of the countryside today. the Washington & Old Dominion Rail- n Braddock tory. Fairfax, a model colonial pro- of Olivet Methodist Church, had been de- a n ’ ,lenrarlvn an 'l life by a Puritan saber, waa one of from him by payment of $150,000. These fortifications were connected Among those road. It sprang up on the first avail- Ai fh J?.° Arlington; who remember the stroyed by Union soldiers. The iSt ’ r Aurora prietor, evidently accepted this settle- Thus estate, with a continous line of earthworks, able site beyond the Heights, Balls- that loyal but dissipated band of with good grace. the a large part of land immediately after the war is Will damage afterward was made good to District line on r*«ton,tht^iClarendon, Del cavalier ment which now is holy ground for all signs of which have disappeared. Douglas parish by the Falls Church branch. Rav and Lae exiles who surrounded Arlington Ameri- (Jen. H. of Ballston, who has been the the Government. Mount an r*sbyte All the land titles in patriots, system was laid by ;, r:/ ian ’ ln Alcova, Balls- Charles the Second on the continent ; can passed finally from the The out John a leading figure In a °.* J County descended directly from the G. Barnard. The slopes and valleys the development of Olivet was located half mile north Wild Cherry Trees. ,n nd Clarendon; Roman during the years of the protectorate. , Custis and Lee families. the county. Mr. Douglas went there of Ballston and off all routes of in Clarendon Catholic, Alexander and Mason families and Establishment of the between these two semi circles of forts At first the new community grew and Mount Ida. Other There one of his intimates was the can easily be traced in the county‘ National Cem- w'ith his father when it was still an travel, so that it never attracted a denominations include still less scrupulous but bolder young . eterv there was somewhat accidental. were completely deforested so as not unrelieved very rapidly. The railway sold com- a Christian courthouse, although the original obstruct the view and swept desolation. Just a few settlement. church at Ballston, a Congregational knight, Sir John Colepeper or Cul- 1 Prior to 1864 soldiers and sailors who to were years before the family had been mutation tickets, six for a quarter, patents are kept in Richmond. by practice fire. Was Built. from the Fairfax County church at Jewel Station, a NAzarine peper, After the Restoration, Ben- In 1811 Philip Alexander, grandson had died in Washington had been taken from their home in Washington, hailroad line to church at Park nets buried Soldiers’ Previous to the Civil War Arlington Georgetown, where free Lane, Methodist Pro" rise was rapid. First as minis- at Home. The avail- with a few sandwiches as a com- The name Ballston was selected at transfers were chu h« of tbe original proprietor, sold a bigr ground County's history is almost a blank Issued at Aurora Hills, ter to Spain, where he was distin- ’ able there soon was misary, to a sandpit a meeting of the Ladies’ Mite So- to the Capital Traction system. Ballston£ B rf tract adjoiniug the Potomac to exhausted. page. There was at Second street policy and Cherr.vdale: a guished for Ids intrigues against „ In May of that year permits for fur- some relief to a drab and ciety the church after spirited This almost spelled ruin for real ( < Union William Henry Washington. The Rhode Island avenue northeast to of a hun-h at and a France, state, » ther burials were President eventlessness in 1775, when about 800 estate developers in other sections of Barcroft Christian ’ and later as secretary of estate known as Arlington—now the refused. escape an expected bombardment of the debate. Some wanted to preserve the C East Falls he wss a leading figure in English his j Lincoln used to make frequent eve- British soldiers under command of the capital when name Ball’s Crossroads, thus honor- the county. They could ofTer no such Church. National Cemetery, Fort Myer and ill-fated Sir Edward Braddork camped Confederates mounted Ihe Industrial development of Ar- torv until his death in 1685. nlng visits to the local hospitals. On on Munson Hill logs, ing the Ball family, which was one of cheap transportation to home seekers lington the experimental farm—was laid outt for a few days on the hillsides above charred which i County is confined to one sec- As a reward for his services In and the mansion which crowns the » Ihe evening of May 13 he was accom* had ail the appearance of cannon. The! the oldest and most respected in the and their lots went long without pur- tion. extending on a visit to the hospital at Alexandria preparatory to their march chasers. , from Rosslyn In a bringing an end to the Dutch wrar, Potomac bluffs built by George a panied Douglas family were almost as trulv vicinity. Others wanted a more eu- curving includes negotiating marriage Arlington by Q. M. Gen. M. to tragic defeat at Fort Duquesne. pioneers phonious The according area which .South which Included a Washington Park Custls, the boy who j as any of those who entered name." The two factions name "Cherrydale," W ashlugton, the brickyard district, between the Duke of York’s eldest C. Meigs. They found 12 bodies in Touch of Action. the great on Ballston, to the older inhabitants, has a real and had been brought up at Mt. Vernon 1 West after the Civil War. finally compromised 1 otomao yards. The products daughter, Mary, ami William of black-painted board coffins lying on action in suggested by Ballston Spa, New York. local significance. When the develop- ] of this and whom George Washington con- There is another touch of Development Was Slow. ‘"“““trialarea Include different tvpea Orange, he was elevated to an earl- sidered practically in tbe light of a, the ground. They had been refused 1826, when Ilenry Clay and John Ran- In the same year the town was rnent started there were large patches < of brick, cinder burial at and Meigs of wild cherry concrete blocks, com- dom. He had spent his boyhood in son. It was he, presumably, whose Soldiers’ Home, ' dolph met near Chain Bridge in one of Development was extremely slow. established, the Rosslyn-Falls Church trees in the vicinity and i mercial oxygen, vegetable s was in quandary what to do with When the earlier oila, glass tiia village of Harlington in Middle- thoughts went buck to the long dead j a 1 the most historic of American duels. he wr as a boy Mr. Douglas re- Railroad was built. A few Govern- settlers planted small or- ] mUlwork, sereins, 20 miles from and , them. is told by members walking with all the neigh- ment clerks began to settle in the sub- chards of cultivated varieties from the tire chains and sex, about London, Sir Ilenry Bennet In selecting a The story an eye-witness, ] paint. In this Industrial section chose his name for his new title. for his It is from the e “They cannot be left like this,” said Senator Thomas H. Benton of Mis- borhood youths several miles to see a division. Among the earliest were sale of which they increased their j are there name estate. the L many desirable factory sites wrlth The ”11” was dropped almost Imme- Arlington estate, of course, that the g President. souri. A week before the meeting, new house being erected at the lower Eugene Payne and Frank Thompson. meager incomes as Government clerks, i spur-track “Then bury them right here,” said slowly peculiarity facilities. The area Is only diately. Bennet may have thought county gets its name. 1 shortly after Randolph received the end of what is now Clarendon. It was Ballston continued to grow un- Through some of the soil : 10 minutes away from •'Arlington” sounded more aristocratic, Meigs, calling some Hospital Corps ’ challenge from Clay, he called on Ben- the great event of a year. From 1865 til the World War, when, with the rest It was especially adapted for cherries. downtown Ceded by Virginia. orderlies and pointing Washington. or the change may have resulted from | to what had ' ton and told him confidentially that he to 1895 there was hardly any develop- of Arlington County, It experienced In common with other Arlington A network of off been Gen. Lee’s garden. opponent, re- worthy of the suburban street rail- «. Cockney clerical error. Arlington County was a corner would not fire at his but ment name. its great boom. County towns Cherrydale and the con- i way and bus lines covers Fairfax County until the District of ceive his bullet without any attempt Among the pioneers of the Arlington It now has four churches, a volun- tiguous territory has seen its great de- the entire Asked for Recall. Prisoner Buried First. i county. The "Washington ft Old Do- • Columbia was laid out in 1789. It then n at retaliation. County of today w’aa Rear Admiral teer fire department, a bank and a velopment since the World War. It minioni operates three kind to his old ceded Virginia to the Federal The first body wss that of a 4:30 in the aft- Surgeon of has ] lines—one from Fortune was not so I ; was by 1 hurled When the two met at Rixey, General the Navy high school, as well as many charm- now a bank, three churches and Rosslyn to Great Falls Culpeper, whose sole qualifica- Government the State’s contribu i- Southern prisoner. The second was of April 8, however, the Vir- and White House physician during the ing homes. variety of through Chen friend -1 as i ernoon every store. It enjoys city rydalei and McLean, one Rosslyn at court, apparently, . the 10-mlle square that t that of a New York Thus ginla Senator’s resolution weakened McKinley Administration. Admiral laid from tion for a career i tion to tract volunteer. i When BallstopMbwas out the mail delivery. t through East Church for dissipation. He make up the National Capital. I. established the nucleus of the > when he noted in Clay what he Rixey’s health had broken down, and site of its prewn thriving next-door This Falls to Blue- j was hie fondness j was to was con- Ballston-Clarendon-Cherrydale i mont, from i District off great national cemetery of unreasonable vindictive- he sought small farm where and one Rluemont Junc- w»s a man of little education or sauv- • j It remained a part of the today, sidered an a he could neighbor, ClarAdon, was a cornfield district is the hub of Arlington t tion to Alexandria. The of Culpeper a father had Columbia for 57 years. It was ceded d During the Civil War a semi-circle i ness. Clay stood with his back to a recuperate. Driving about Washing- on the County. It will Washington- ity manner. I the Nesmi® farm. During be the business center 1 Virginia Railway operates four linen— > been te member of tha original Vir*• I back to Virginia and named Aiexan i- or "courronne” of forts stretched L stump; Randolph was in front of a ton with a carriage, he finally foupd % Civil War it hy been a target range, of two< from company d£jj- downtown Washington and yjfta chartered under | 1846, - og Georq* m two (mm-RnMlvn M