Save the Date!!
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 8:30am - 4:15pm
Stacy C. Sherwood Conference Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22030
Fairfax County's 7th Annual History Conference
"The Civil War Comes to Fairfax County"
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Sharon Bulova, Chairperson, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Keynote Speaker, Stephen Potter
"No Maneuvering and Very Little Tactics:
Archaeology and the Battle of Brawner Farm "
Sessions to include:
* 1861 - That Spring the Civil War Came to Northern Virginia,
Rich Gillespie, Director of, Education, Mosby Heritage Area
* Buckland - A Land of History, A Land to Preserve,
David Blake, Director, Buckland Preservation Society
* The Fairfax County Quaker Presence - 1861
Susan Hellman, Deputy Director, NTHP, Woodlawn Plantation
* The Centreville Militia Railroad
Art Candenquist, Civil War Historian
* Robert E. Lee - The American
Gar Schulin, Virginia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans
Registration: $20.00 per person
(includes Continental breakfast, lunch - afternoon snack, exhibits, authors,
trivia contest prizes, AND parking!)
For further information and to request a brochure please email your name and address to [log in to unmask]
Sponsored by the Fairfax County History Commission, Fairfax County Sesquicentennial Committee,
Fairfax County Park Authority, Fairfax Museum & Visitor Center & Preservation Virginia, No. VA Branch
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