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While you are answering those questions
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community you are considering as your next home, Dunn
Loring, VA.
A Brief History of Dunn Loring, Virginia
Dunn Loring, Virginia, the earliest
platted subdivision in Fairfax County and possibly the
Commonwealth of Virginia, was founded in 1886. General
William McKee Dunn and his wife Elizabeth Lanier Dunn
purchased about 600 acres located on the Washington, Ohio,
and Western Railroad, now the Washington and Old Dominion
Regional Trail, from L. B. Clarke and his wife on June 8,
1886. On September 22, 1886, the land was transferred to the
Loring Land and Improvement Company, composed of General
Dunn, then a retired Army Brigadier General and former Judge
Advocate General, George B. Loring, a former Congressman and
Commissioner of Agriculture, and George H. LeFetra, a
Washington temperance hotel proprietor; and the Town of Dunn
Loring was advertised for residential sales in 1887. The
Loring Land and Improvement Company built a railroad station
and a post office, but shortly thereafter General Dunn died,
and the development stagnated. During the Spanish-American
War, the founding of Camp Russell A. Alger brought growth
and prosperity to Dunn Loring, and among the troops trained
at Camp Alger was the celebrated author-poet Carl Sandburg,
after whom the present Sandburg Street was named. In 1912,
F. Shields McCandlish bought out the interests of the
developers, consolidated parcels, and subdivided the land
into its current platting. Following World War II, the area
began to develop as part of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
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