McLean

by Carole L. Herrick

Overview

Historian Carole Herrick uncovers the history of this former farming village to thriving community in over 200 vintage images.

McLean was a farming community in 1910, when Henry Alonzo Storm established a general store that included the McLean Post Office. The store was located on Chain Bridge Road beside a stop on the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad, an electrified trolley that ran from Rosslyn to Great Falls Park. The stop was named after John R. McLean, a founder of the trolley and owner of the Washington Post newspaper. A village and vibrant community gradually developed around Storm's Store..The Franklin Sherman School, the first consolidated public school in Fairfax County, opened near the store in October 1914; McLean Day, the first event of its kind in the county, started in 1915 to raise money for the school; and the McLean Volunteer Fire Department incorporated in 1923 as Station 1 in Fairfax County.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738587455
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	03/21/2011
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Author Carole L. Herrick is a past president of the McLean Historical Society and co—chaired the McLean Centennial Celebration. She is a member of the Fairfax County History Commission, a co—chair of McLean and Great Falls Celebrate Virginia, and a participant of the War of 1812 Bicentennial Commemoration Planning Committee and the Fairfax County Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 The Beginning 9

2 Early Development 23

3 Civil War 37

4 Rebuilding 47

5 Birth of a Village 65

6 Growth 95