--Evans

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_Sully: The Biography of a House_--Gamble
Book available from the Fairfax County Park Authority

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-84441

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION 1

I. FAIRFAX COUNTY'S EARLY COURTHOUSES: 1742-1800 3

II. THE PROVIDENCE COURTHOUSE AND ITS RELATED
BUILDINGS: 1800-1860 12

III. THE COUNTY COURT AND ITS OFFICERS 18

IV. THE WAR YEARS: 1861-1865 33

V. THE YEARS OF REBUILDING: 1865-1903 42

VI. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY COURTHOUSE 50

VII. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE COURTHOUSE AND ITS RELATED
BUILDINGS 58

1. The Courthouse Complex 58

2. The Courthouse 73

3. Restoration of the Original Wing of the
Courthouse, 1967 87

APPENDIXES

A. County Court Clerks: 1742-1976 107

B. Justices and Judges: 1742-1976 108

C. Portraits in the Old Courthouse--Biographies 117

D. Clerk's Office Specifications, _Alexandria
Gazette_, July 15, 1853 121

E. Schedule of Reconstruction of the Courthouse, 1967 123

LIST OF SOURCES 127

ILLUSTRATIONS

Front Cover--Courthouse about 1920

Back Cover--Court papers, 1976

Five Colonial Justices of the Fairfax County Court: George
Washington; George Mason; Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax;
George William Fairfax; and Bryan, eighth Lord Fairfax 2

Cartograph of Alexandria Courthouse Square 6

Surveys of courthouse lot, 1798-1924 15

Civil War view, 1862 32

Hopkins' map of Fairfax Court House, 1879 44

Marr monument's dedication, 1904