Thursday, February 7, 2013
Docents will be trained in leadership and tour guidance.
Historic Huntley is hosting a meeting for anyone interested in volunteering as a docent or historic program assistant. Historic Huntley is seeking docents to be trained in program leadership and tour guidance. Volunteers will lead tours and assist with interpretive programs for all age groups at the federal period villa built for Thomson Francis Mason in 1825. Historic Huntley was renovated and reopened to the public in 2012. The meeting will take place in the visitor center auditorium at Huntley Meadows Park on Sunday, February 10, 2013, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. For more information, contact Site Coordinator Geoffrey Cohrs at Geoffrey.cohrs@fairfaxcounty.gov or Volunteer Coordinator Kathleen Lowe at Kathleen.lowe@fairfaxcounty.gov. Both may …
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Multiple historical items were stolen from the house during a break-in reported Aug. 3.
One or more burglars smashed windows and glass display cases and stole multiple historic items from Historic Huntley during a break-in reported Aug. 3. According to Fairfax County police, an employee was checking on the house, located at 6918 Harrison Lane near the main entrance to Huntley Meadows Park, and discovered the damage. Police believe forced entry was made through a rear door. Fairfax County Park Authority spokeswoman Judy Pedersen said the burglar or burglars stole items including antique glass marbles, an old ceramic doorknob with a swirled round glaze and an early-20th-century dish with green decorations. A shutterdog — an S-shaped piece of iron used to hold open a shutter — was also taken. Some of the home’s glass windows, …
Saturday, April 28, 2012
A roundup of this week's top headlines from the Route 1 corridor.
From Huntington-Belle Haven Patch Former West Potomac football coach Eric Henderson’s sons have transferred to Lake Braddock Secondary School and will play football for the Bruins this fall. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has found the $250,000 in its budget to continue funding the Fairfax County Police Department’s Marine Patrol unit. From Fort Hunt Patch Four West Potomac High School students will have their works of art displayed at the Workhouse Art Center’s 2012 Congressional Art Exhibition. Historic Huntley has been restored to its original glory. It will open to the public on May 19. From Mount Vernon Patch Residents have joined forces to form Save Woodlawn Stables, a grassroots group dedicated to preserving Woodlawn …
Friday, April 27, 2012
Site wil open to public May 19.
Historic Huntley has at last been reconnected with its long-lost sibling down the road. A Federal period villa built in 1825 for Thomson Francis Mason, a grandson of George Mason, Historic Huntley overlooks over the broad valley farmed by generations of Masons and was once part of Hunting Creek Farm, now the site of Huntley Meadows Park. The park has completed its restoration of Historic Huntley, which will open to the public beginning May 19. “It’s very exciting, and I think it sort of completes the Huntley Park picture,” said Kevin Munroe, Huntley Meadows Park manager, during a media tour Thursday. “Down there, in that park, the people living here in the 1800s, that was their land. So now that this is open, it completes it and connects …
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10:45 pm on Saturday, August 18, 2012
People who have such little regard for history probably have no idea of the true value of the items they stole. It wouldn't surprise me that those items may have been subsequently tossed into the woods or trash after the thrill of the break-in. We are so glad to see the property restored but the nearby neighborhood will make it a continuing target for vandalism. I do hope security is beefed up as… more ›