[114] Allen W. Moger, "The Rebuilding of the Old Dominion," (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1940), pp. 95–96.
[115] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Industrial and Historical Sketch, pp. 5–6.
[116] The campaign to improve Virginia's roads had been waged since the 1890's. See, for example, the rhetoric and argument in favor of road improvements set forth in the Programme of the Virginia Good Roads Convention, (Roanoke: Stone Printing, Co., 1894) held in Richmond in October 1894. As to the effects of the rise of automotive travel, see Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, Historic, Progressive Fairfax County in Old Virginia, (Alexandria: Newell-Cole, 1928), pp. 20–21, containing a road map of the county's hard-surfaced roads and unimproved roads in 1928.
[117] Porter, County Government, p. 291.
[118] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Annual Report, 1969, p. 6.
[119] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Minute Book, v. 5, 318, William Deming was the architect of this project. As with previous expansions of the clerk's office, the old building was torn down and the bricks re-used in the new building.
[120] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Minute Book, v. 5, 318; v. 9 (1939–40), 501; v. 10 (1941–42), 175; v. 12 (1949–50), 4; v. 18 (1950–51), 497; v. 20 (1953), 519.
[121] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Minute Book, v. 30 (1960), pp. 418–23.
[122] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Minute Book, v. 32, 264–65 notes that Reston offered 50 acres for the use of the courthouse, and Tyson's Corner and the intersection of Routes 495 and 50 also were considered. See also, Ibid., v. 39 (1964), 117.
[123] Fairfax County Deed Book, B-2, pp. 373–376; 503–504. The courthouse commissioners were Charles Little, David Stuart, William Payne, James Wren, and George Minor.