Fairfax is just one small example of the results of colonization. Through the trials and tribulations endured by the Jamestown and Maryland colonists, a community was carved out of a wilderness. Through perseverance and courage the colonists built and held on to a civilization. They created homes, schools, churches, and established an independent stronghold on a new continent. It was not easy. Neither will the conquest of a new planet be easy but certainly a wonderful heritage has been left by those who went before.
As a visitor to Fairfax County in 1798 wrote—
"There is a compound of virtue and vice in every human character; no man was ever yet faultless; but whatever may be advanced against Virginians, their good qualities will outweigh their defects; and when the effervescence of youth has abated, when reason asserts her empire, there is no man on earth who discovers more exalted sentiment, more contempt of baseness, more love of justice, more sensibility of feeling, than a Virginian."
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The author is indebted to the following people for their help in compiling the foregoing information:
Mr. Ollie Atkins
The Honorable Paul E. Brown
Mr. W. Lindsay Carne
Mrs. Thomas Casey
Mr. Thomas P. Chapman, Jr.
Mrs. H. N. Clark
Mr. Courtland H. Davis
The Rev. Raymond W. Davis
Miss Barbara Duras
Mrs. H. John Elliott, Jr.
Mrs. Earl W. Emerson
Mr. Wilson M. Farr (deceased)
Mr. W. Franklin Gooding
Mr. Alex Haight
Mr. Charles Patton Henry
History Committee of the Fairfax Methodist Church
Mr. F. Wilmer Holbrook
Mr. J. Kenneth Klinge
Mrs. Doreen H. LaFalce
Mrs. Thomas B. Love
Mrs. F. S. McCandlish, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. McCandlish, Jr.
Mrs. Douglas Murray
Mrs. Charles H. Pozer
Mrs. Barbara Ritchie
Mr. John W. Rust (deceased)
Mr. Glenn W. Saunders
Mr. Roy A. Swayze
Mr. Byron E. Wales