Mayo S. Stuntz, Sr. (Aged 97) Passed away on May 9, 2013. Born in Vienna, VA in 1915, attended Cornell University, served in the U.S.Army in the Pacific (Lt. Col, Ret.), had a 25 year career in the Central Intelligence Agency, and was a well-known local historian and co-author. Beloved husband of 66 years of [...]
Historic Vienna, Inc. is still collecting books for our largest fund-raiser, the Annual Used Book Sale. This year the sale will be held at THE TOWN OF VIENNA COMMUNITY CENTER on Saturday, June 8 from 9 AM till 4 PM and Sunday, June 9 from Noon till 5 PM. Your tax-deductible donations may be brought in to the Freeman Store [...]
Historic Vienna, Inc. is pleased to offer our War of 1812 exhibit at the Freeman House! Suzanne Traut and Benny Vuong, two local volunteers who stepped forward to help Historic Vienna share history at the Freeman House, have completed an excellent display which deserves our attention. Learn how James and Dolley Madison fled from the [...]
Historic Vienna, Inc. is very excited to say that our new exhibit is open – “Roads to Rails to Trails,” at the Freeman Store, 131 Church Street, NE. The exhibit tells the story of the evolution of the railroad that ran through Vienna from 1855 to 1968, along the right of way now known as [...]
The following text is an extract from a pamphlet entitled: Farms and Village Homes in Fairfax County – January 1897 - by O.E. Hine, Vienna, VA: VIENNA Vienna is a regularly laid out village of four hundred inhabitants, situated on the Washington & Ohio railroad, fifteen miles north from Alexandria, and about the same distance west from [...]
This is an interesting list of the oldest trees in our town from a contest in 1999. You will need to add 14 years to the dates below to make the age of the tree current for 2013. Are these trees still standing? How many other trees are in our town that are over 200 years [...]
Local Vienna resident Richard C. Kirkland, WWII Fighter Pilot and Korean War MASH Helicopter Pilot, describes his life goals to fly planes, paint pictures and write books. RCK – “In the USA, anything is possible if you put your mind to it.” Richard has been Historic Vienna’s guest speaker in the past and was a [...]
Ayr Hill Learning Garden – A Colonial herb garden – Located on the grounds of Historic Vienna, Inc.’s Freeman House behind the Little Library. Guided tours available by appointment at the Freeman Store 131 Church Street, NE ViennaVirginia 22180. Installed and maintained by Ayr Hill Garden Club. Food 1. Savory – once as popular as black [...]
Any discussion of Historic Vienna, Inc. and the Freeman Store and Museum eventually leads back to our special association with the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department. Leon Freeman, owner and operator of the Freeman Store, founded the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, Fairfax’s first, in 1903. The department’s original chemical pumper, once kept under a porch at [...]
The Library of Congress offers print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services on their AMAZING website. The link below will take you to the Library of Congress digitized collection relating to Vienna Virginia. We at Historic Vienna have been fortunate to use some of these rare images for our exhibits. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=Vienna%2C%20Virginia If you [...]