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Farmhouse in Fairfax County park OK’d for disability programming, historical preservation

By David Taube
The Ellmore Farmhouse in Frying Pan Farm Park that ServiceSource plans to maintain and upgrade through a Resident Curator Program (Photo courtesy ServiceSource)

A two-story farmhouse in Frying Pan Farm Park — built in 1891 — will get some upgrades as part of a historical preservation program, thanks to a nonprofit that serves people with disabilities.

Fairfax County supervisors voted Feb. 8 to permit the organization ServiceSource to proceed with running programming at the 12-room Ellmore Farmhouse in the Herndon area. The board previously approved the nonprofit for its Resident Curator Program last May with a 29-year lease.

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New W&OD, cemetery signs explain county’s history of segregation

By Brandi Bottalico

NOVA Parks has installed two new signs to shed light on the effect of slavery and segregation in Fairfax County.

A new sign in Herndon Caboose Park explains how Jim Crow laws affected passengers on the Washington & Old Dominion train line in the 1900s. Another sign in Clifton describes the significance of a graveyard for enslaved people near Bull Run Marina.

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