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Fairfax County Police has several programs that are ongoing and short-term, depending on the needs of the community. Some examples include. Fairfax County motorcycle officers in Washington, D.C. prior to a parade in 2014. Honor Guard. Founded in 1980, the Ceremonial Honor Guard is a non-standing unit made up of career and auxiliary officers.
Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia 's prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the forced labor of enslaved people, [3] [4] it was located on the west bank of the Potomac River on the present site of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia. The main house, called Belvoir Manor or Belvoir Mansion, burned in 1783 ...
Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. With a population of 1,150,309 as of the 2020 census, [1] it the most populous county in Virginia, the most populous jurisdiction in the Washington metropolitan area, and the most populous location in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
George C. Marshall High School is a public school in Falls Church, Virginia. Named for General George C. Marshall, it opened in 1962 and is part of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). It is ranked #245 in the nation for public schools and has received a gold award for Best High Schools from the U.S. News & World Report 2020. [5]
Accotink Creek is a 25.0-mile-long (40.2 km) [5] tributary stream of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. At Springfield, Virginia, Accotink Creek is dammed to create Lake Accotink. The stream empties into the Potomac at Gunston Cove 's Accotink Bay, to the west of Fort Belvoir .
Recorded September 17, 2014. Gerald Edward Connolly (born March 30, 1950) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia 's 11th congressional district, first elected in 2008. The district is anchored in Fairfax County, an affluent suburban county west of Washington, D.C. It includes all of Fairfax City and part of ...
W.T. Woodson High School. / 38.84028°N 77.27528°W / 38.84028; -77.27528. Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, commonly known as W.T. Woodson High School or simply Woodson, (in the process of renaming to Carter G. Woodson High School [3]) is a high school located in Fairfax County, Virginia, just outside the east end of the city of ...
Fairfax High School is a fully accredited high school based on the Standards of Learning (SOL) tests in Virginia. FHS is performing above the state median on all SOL assessments including 91% in Reading, 88% in writing, 79% in math, and 79% in science. [6] Fairfax The average SAT score in 2009–2010 for FHS was 1657 on a 2400 scale. [7]