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    A History of the Town of Fairfax
    A History of the Town of Fairfax
    A History of the Town of Fairfax
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    A History of the Town of Fairfax

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      A History of the Town of Fairfax - Jeanne Johnson Rust

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, A History of the Town of Fairfax, by Jeanne Johnson Rust, Illustrated by John H. Rust, Jr., and Paul R. Hoffmaster

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      Title: A History of the Town of Fairfax

      Author: Jeanne Johnson Rust

      Release Date: April 14, 2010 [eBook #31990]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF FAIRFAX***

      E-text prepared by Stacy Brown, Mark C. Orton,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      A HISTORY

      OF THE

      TOWN OF FAIRFAX

      Sketch by John H. Rust, Jr.

      Jeanne Johnson Rust

      1960

      Illustrations by Paul R. Hoffmaster

      FIRST EDITION

      SECOND PRINTING

      Copyright 1960, by Jeanne Johnson Rust

      All rights reserved

      Printed by Moore & Moore, Inc., Washington, D. C.

      Designed by William M. Guillet

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-11281

      To My Husband

      and his favorite town—his birthplace.

      MAP LEGEND

      CONTENTS

      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 Warr, the colonists eventually set up a government, bought peace with their enemy, and settled down to raise tobacco on the land to which they received proprietary rights. Later they expanded their holdings; developed their resources; improved their government; established churches, schools and colleges; gained their independence from their mother country; survived civil strife; and advanced their civilization.

      I. JAMESTOWN

      At Jamestown the colonists found that they could not succeed without expanding the Indian's agriculture. They found the savages of the Tidewater section growing corn, muskmelon, pumpkin, watermelon, squash, maypops, gourds and peas in their fertile well-organized gardens. Grapevines were cultivated at the edge of clearings and there were rich harvests of chestnuts, hickory nuts and acorns. Strawberries and other small fruits grew in abundance and mulberry trees stood near every village. Tobacco was grown to itself, in carefully prepared hills arranged in well-organized rows. It developed into a slender plant less than three feet tall and the short, thick leaves, when ripe, were pulled from the stalk and dried before a fire or in the sun. The colonists learned to grow and store the Indian foods for cold winters and they learned to earn their livelihood from the export of the tobacco they grew.

      In the northern part of Fairfax County, the Indians grew corn. They fished, mined, and herded buffalo. In order to have sufficient grassland for their cattle, or buffalo, the Indians deliberately set fire to the forests. They also burned their old fields that had once been cultivated for they found that grass grew voluntarily on them if the trees were kept down.

      Maxwell in The Use and Abuse of Forests by Virginia Indians tells us, Virginia, between its mountains and the seas was passing through its fiery ordeal and was approaching a crisis at the time the colonists snatched the fagot from the Indian's hand. The tribes were burning everything that would burn and it can be said of the Alleghanies that if the discovery of America had been post-poned five hundred years, Virginia would have been pasture land or desert.

      This point is further illustrated by the Manahoac Indian's remark to Captain John Smith that he knew not what lay beyond the Blue Ridge except the sun, because the woods were not burnt.

      Although the settlement by colonists helped to slow down this burning process, it did not stop it altogether. The colonists cleared their land by burning also and when they had exploited one area moved on to another. (They did not burn as large areas as the Indians.) As other freemen came, they pushed upward and inward along the waterways to find unexploited land. This, of course, hastened the development of the Fairfax County area but it left acres of old fields going

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