TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations [iv]
Acknowledgments [v]
Introduction [1]
[Part I],Continuity [5]
[Part II],Change [36]
[Part III],Professionalization and an Increased Standard of Living [59]
[Part IV],The New Deal [83]
[Part V],Community [87]
[Part VI],Frying Pan Park [115]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Holden Harrison, 1935 [6]
Harrison dairy barn, 1936 [6]
McNair Guernsey bull, 1918 [7]
Interior Harrison dairy barn [7]
Spring plowing on McNair farm [12]
Shock of wheat, Ellmore farm, 1925 [15]
Mechanical hay loader, 1935 [15]
Small orchard apiary, 1925 [17]
Inventory of 1920 farmer [20]
Plan of Smith farm, 1929 [21]
Rebecca Rice canning fruit [25]
Elizabeth Harrison, Herndon [25]
Homemade manure sled [27]
Broadcast harvester, 1921 [37]
Wheat being mechanically harvested, 1925 [37]
Tractor-drawn drill, 1922 [40]
McNair aboard a Row Crop 70 tractor [40]
Soybeans on a demonstration farm, 1925 [43]
A wild cherry tree destroyed by web worms [45]
"Hard Work Made Easy and Quick" [54]
The Fairfax County Grange meeting, 1940 [60]
The Floris Home Demonstration Club, 1930 [63]
A 4-H Club, "Achievement Day" displays, 1930 [63]
A community fair, 1922 [64]
A suggested model farm for Fairfax County, 1924 [64]
The 4-H Girls Camp at Woodlawn, 1925 [66]
A Piedmont Dairy Festival parade float, 1930 [66]
Map of improved and unimproved roads, 1930 [70]
Stuck in the mud on one of county's roads [71]
Aerial of Kidwell farm and Floris vicinity [75]
1930 map of Floris community [88]
G. Ray Harrison, 1925 [90]
Early threshing machine [118]
Laura Parham and Kim Stanton work in vegetable garden [118]
The farmyard at Frying Pan Farm in the early fall [118]
Farmer's house—Frying Pan Farm [120]
Two young girls meet two young goats [120]
John Hopkins in the Moffett Blacksmith Shop [120]
Pat Middleton at 4-H Club Fair [121]
Cattle judging, Floris School, 1950 [121]
Dressage competition at Frying Pan Park, 1978 [123]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Cooperation and goodwill were the essential characteristics of the agricultural communities examined in this study, and it has been my pleasure to discover that those qualities are still very evident today among the county's rural folk. Many residents of the Herndon area shared their personal memories and offered really old-fashioned Virginia hospitality to those doing research. Without the help of Neal Bailey, Elizabeth Ellmore, Emma Ellmore, Virginia Greear, Holden Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Harrison, Margaret Mary Lee, Edna Middleton, John Middleton, Rebecca Middleton, Richard Peck, Elizabeth Rice, Louise Ryder, and Mary Scott, this monograph could not have been completed.