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Over 200,000 people now visit the park every year, seeking wildlife observation, exercise, and relaxation. The staffed visitor center offers many exhibits on the park's human and natural history as well as educational programs for all ages. A nonprofit organization, Friends of Huntley Meadows Park, provides significant support to the park.
Huntley (plantation) / 38.76556°N 77.09472°W / 38.76556; -77.09472. Huntley, also known as Historic Huntley or Huntley Hall is an early 19th-century Federal-style villa and farm [3] in the Hybla Valley area of Fairfax County, Virginia. [3] The house sits on a hill overlooking Huntley Meadows Park to the south.
Okeley Manor. Okeley Manor was an early 19th-century plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Okeley, the residence of prominent Alexandria physician Richard Chichester Mason (1793–1869), was one of the principal Mason family estates in Northern Virginia. [1] Mason's plantation house was used as a hospital during the American ...
Little Hunting Creek. Little Hunting Creek is a 3.6-mile-long (5.8 km) [1] primarily tidal tributary of the Potomac River located in Fairfax County, Virginia, not to be confused with Hunting Creek farther north. A stone-arch bridge, completed in 1931, [2] carries traffic on the George Washington Memorial Parkway across the narrow mouth of the ...
Thomson Francis Mason (1785 – 21 December 1838) was an American lawyer, planter and politician who served as the mayor of Alexandria (then in the District of Columbia, but now Virginia) between 1827 and 1830, and as a justice of the peace for many years and briefly in the months before his death as a judge of the Washington, D.C., criminal court.
It was carved out of the Mount Vernon CDP beginning with the 2010 census, from the west it goes from Fort Belvoir to Little Hunting Creek stretching along U.S. Route 1 on the south and Huntley Meadows Park on the north. Historic Woodlawn Plantation occupies the southwest corner. Fairfax County Park Authority operates neighborhood parks in the area.
The Hayfield Farm Community of Alexandria, Virginia was developed in 1965 by Wills & Van Metre. Hayfield Farm is a subdivision of Fairfax County, Virginia, that has around 690 houses. [1] It is surrounded by Huntley Meadows Park and wooded military facilities.
Thomas Kennedy "Tom" Amlong (June 15, 1935 – January 26, 2009) was an American competition rower who often teamed with his brother Joe. In 1964 they won the national title in coxless pairs and an Olympic gold medal in the eights. [1] [2] Amlong was the third son of Colonel Ransom George Amlong and Marguerite Kennedy.