Tag: Holmes Run

Holmes Run watershed in Falls Church is the site of a colonial plantation and military base

June 28, 2020

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This was the site of the Dulin farmhouse in the 1700s. The wooded area along the upper section of Holmes Run near Providence RECenter in Falls Church was once a part of a slave-holding plantation in the 1700s. The Camp Alger military base was there in 1898. And in the 1920s, it was the site … Continued