Evening star., 1927-05-08
odist and Seventh Day Adventist

odist and SeventhDay Adventist
churches
| One of Vienna's most distinguished
citizens was the late Johannes Oertel,
painter of the celebrated religious pic
ture, THE Rock of Ages"
| The fifth of Fairfax County's incor-
porated towns is Clifton, on the
Southern Railway. 81 miles southwest
Of Washington. 1t is the trading CEN
ter of the Centerville district. rich
! farming community, and is connected
| to the main highway between Wash
| ington and Manassas by five miles Of
excellent road to the little village of
| Centerville. Clifton is located in a
very attractive valley. drained by
| Pope's Head Creek, a branch of the
| historic Bull Run. Many of its 800
| inhabitants are commuters to Wash
| ington. but the town has an excellent
business future. There are three
churches and a high school with 130
| pupils.
Clifton soon is to be supplied with
electric power by the damming of
Bull Run, a local enterprise. The
town ships large quantities of milk
every morning to Washington. 1t has
excellent general stores, soapstone
factory and feed mill.
Mclean Growing hapNiy.
The sixth and perhaps most rapidly
growing town in the county is
Mclean, which is largely a unit of
the Washington suburban develop
| ment, with electric railway service to
the National Capital and an automo-
| bile road which can be covered in
| less than half hour.
Mclean has an excellent high
school, which is also a community
center around which most of the
civic activities of the neighborhood
rotate. The village also has an In
corporated fire department with some
of the finest apparatus III Northern
Virginia. 1t has a community library
building, a community hall and three
churches. A considerable amount of
! the Providence district milk is shipped
into Washington from the Mclean
railroad station.
Besides the incorporated towns
there are several villages important
as farm trading centers and as milk
collecting points. A Fairfax village
consists usually of one or two stores,
garage and gasoline filling station,
and two or three dwelling houses.
Usually there is church somewhere
in the vicinity giving to the neighbor-
hood the atmosphere of permanence
and domesticity.
Chantilly, near where the celebrated
battle was fought, has become much
better known to motorists since the
/ completion of the hard-surfaced pike
from Fairfax to Warrenton. 1t is
about five miles from the courthouse
and six miles from Herndon. at the
junction of the pike and the Herndon
| road. Chantilly is one of the oldest
villages in the county and is sur
rounded by large dairy farms. A
great deal of milk is brought there to
be collected by trucks and taken to
Washington and Alexandria.
Scene of Stirring Events.
Dranesville is located on the Lees
burg Pike, a little cluster of old
houses in the center of rich farming
territory. The village was the focus
of stirring scenes during the Civil
War.
An old village with a promising
future is Accotink, just below Fort
Humphreys, which is in the center of
a considerable fruit region in the
Mount Vernon district. An old flour
mill is located there which flourished
in Washingtons time.
F'loris is three miles from Herndon
on the Chantilly road, near Old Fry
ing Pan Church. There are two
stores, a church and several dwell
ings there besides the Fairfax County
Vocational High School, which draws
students from all over the county.
The village Is a milk-collecting point
of considerable importance.
Centerville, seven miles from Fair.
fax, also has a promising future. 1t
now is connected with the county
seat and hence with Alexandria and
Washington. by am excellent hard