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MERRYBROOK
Tuesday — 22 June 2010 — 7:30 PM
FRIENDS OF LAURA RATCLIFFE
BOARD MEETING AT MERRYBROOK
Some meetings are open to the public, call for information.
Contact: 703-713-0124 (Merrybrook - Win Meiselman)
Second Sunday Programs
The Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center
10209 Main Street
Fairfax, VA 22030
These Free programs begin at 2 p.m. and are followed by
informal discussion and refreshments in the Visitor Center.
Saturday — 26 June — 2:00 p.m.
Laws of War
Local historian and lecturer Keith Young will discuss the Union Army's efforts that led to the adoption of written rules of war, known as General Order 100, in 1863. Free. The Civil War Interpretive Center at Historic Blenheim, 3610 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax.
703-591-0560.
Program is free. Light refreshments will be served. 703-385-8414.
7 August 2010 – 8 a.m.
Visit the home of Mary Surratt
3610 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax
Visit the home of Mary Surratt, who was hanged for her involvement in the assassination of President Lincoln, and then visit Point Lookout at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, the site of one of the largest and worst Union prison camps during the Civil War. The tour will begin with a visit to a Civil War site in the Franconia area.
Start the day at 8 a.m., August 7, 2010 with coffee, donuts and a tour of the Franconia Museum, located in the Franconia Governmental Center, 6121 Franconia Road. Board a comfortable rest-room equipped motor coach for the trip to a local historic site and then the Surratt House in Prince Georges County. After a buffet lunch at the Golden Corral in Waldorf, Maryland, you'll venture on to Point Lookout, which is now a Maryland state park as well as the site of the prison camp.
While at Point Lookout, you'll learn of the miserable conditions as well as the Fairfax County connection to one of the few successful escapes from the camp during the Civil War. You also will learn about one prisoner who was captured just nine days before the war ended; how he got to Point Lookout and how he was released
Leave from Franconia Museum at Franconia Governmental Center, 6121 Franconia Road. Free parking. Arrive at 8:00 a.m. for tour of museum, coffee and donuts. Bus leaves approximately 8:15 a.m. Estimated arrival time back at Franconia is between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m.
COST: $100.00 Each. Includes Buffet lunch at Golden Corral and a fast-food value card per person on the way home as well as the entrance fee to each historic site and a contribution to the Franconia Museum.
Great Falls Historical Society
Wednesday — 8 September 2010 — 7:00 PM
at the Great Falls Library
Civil War History of Hunter Mill Road Uncovered
by Jim Lewis
Historical Society of Fairfax County
Sunday — 27 June 2010 — 2:00 PM
at Mount Vernon
Society Meeting and Tour of Mount Vernon
Following the meeting in the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Auditorium, there will be a free guided tour of Mount Vernon, at 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. Enter through the gift shop--the auditorium will be on the left, past the gift shop. This is open to everybody: members and non-members are invited.
For more information: 703-780-2000
www.fairfaxhistoricalsociety.org
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