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BHS around Town: Inventors from Annandale and Burke

George Mason Regional Library 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA, United States

Learn about inventions by residents of Annandale and Burke, as well as a bit of history of the U.S. patent system.   This talk is part of our monthly series at George Mason Regional Library, on third Thursday evenings from May 2017 through August 2018.   The BHS is pleased to offer guest speakers to…

General Meeting: Tales from the Trench

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

As part of our centennial retrospective on World War I, BHS President Jon Vrana presents stories and observations of life and death in the Great War.

General Meeting: Remembering the World War I Soldier

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Mary Lipsey, Fairfax County History Commissioner, speaks about Fairfax County men who served and died in the Great War, and about how the war was commemorated here and nationally.

General Meeting: Carving Out the Wilderness

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Debbie Robison, a Fairfax County History Commissioner, will discuss early local settlement, including the formation of roads, the Colonial economy, and land grants for the future Burke area.

BHS around Town: The Murder of Eva Roy

Burke Centre Library 5935 Freds Oak Rd, Burke, VA, United States

Cindy Bennett will speak about the 1918 murder of 14-year-old Eva Roy in Burke and the tangled investigation that followed.

General Meeting: The Regional Prehistory of Gold

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Mike Johnson, former Senior Archaeologist for the Fairfax County Park Authority, discusses the geologic processes that resulted in gold deposits in our area.

General Meeting: Wicked Fairfax County

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Cindy Bennett shares anecdotes from her new book Wicked Fairfax County, recounting events like the typhoid epidemic at Camp Alger, a 1918 murder in Burke, and, of course, the Bunnyman.

Annual Meeting: If These Walls Could Talk—Silas Burke and His Home

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Join us for the Burke Historical Society’s Annual Meeting!  BHS President Jon Vrana will speak on the 19th-century history of Woodbury, better known today as the Silas Burke House.

BHS around Town: Ghosts, Goons and a Bunny Man

George Mason Regional Library 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA, United States

The Burke Historical Society's Cindy Bennett returns to send chills down your spine with spooky tales of local legends, haunted spots and the creepy monsters of Northern Virginia, including some who have never left.

General Meeting: Lost Villages of Fairfax County

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Heather Bollinger and Jeff Clark return to tell us about Fairfax County’s smaller bygone communities.  While these villages have faded, you might still find some traces of them today.

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