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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