1950
Events that took place in Fairfax County in 1950:
Contents
January
- January 3 – The City of Alexandria announces its plans to annex 7½ square miles of Fairfax County.[1]
- January 13 – 41-year-old Charles F. Holober is convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for burying his 8-month-old daughter June alive after murdering his pregnant 37-year-old wife Frances in Pender on February 24, 1949.[2][3]
- January 13 – 29-year-old Charlotte Meekins is raped, beaten, and drowned in an inlet of the Hunting Creek in on the grounds of the Belle Haven Country Club in Alexandria. Her corpse is discovered early the next morning by club employee Edward Clift.[4][5][6]
- January 23 – Courtney L. Stone is killed when his car is crushed by a tractor-trailer on Route 1 near Accotink.[7]
- January 23 – 75-year-old Dr. James Middleton commits suicide by asphyxiating himself in his automobile in the parking lot of the Fairview Elementary School in Fairfax Station.[7]
February
- February 8 – The Alexandria Water Company puts Lake Barcroft, its 114 acre reservoir near Falls Church, and the 566 surrounding acres up for sale.[8]
- February 18 – The Historical Society of Fairfax County, Virginia is organized.
- February 20 – The Falls Church City Council votes unanimously to pursue an annexation suit that would add nearly 11 square miles of property in Fairfax County to the city.[9]
- February 23 – The City of Falls Church files an annexation suit seeking 6880 acres of land in Fairfax County be added to the city.[10]
March
- March 1 – A large brush fire burns a five-square-mile area of the Alexandria region of Fairfax County, requiring seven hours and the efforts of 300 men to finally bring it under control.[11]
- March 9 – The Virginia General Assembly elects Manassas Town Attorney Arthur W. Sinclair to the newly-created junior judgeship of the 16th Circuit Court.[12]
- March 9 – 35-year-old Odell Smith is killed in the collapse of an unshored trench while laying a sewer pipe for the Hollin Hills subdivision in Alexandria.[13]
May
- May 2 – 15-year-old Robert T. Adams unintentionally kills himself when he loses control of the car he is driving and crashes into a parked truck on Route 7, 1½ miles west of Falls Church. Adams is taken to the Arlington Hospital, where he dies later that morning.[14]
June
- June 16 – Three brothers: 8-year-old Leon A. Proctor, 4-year-old Wells A. Proctor, Jr., and 3-year-old Ronnie M. Proctor, suffocate in an abandoned refrigerator in the back of their home in the Tauxemont neighborhood of Alexandria.[15][16]
July
- July 4 – 38-year-old Henry D. Batchelder commits suicide with a shotgun in his apartment at 6619 Willston Place in the Seven Corners area of Falls Church.[17]
- July 9 – 17-year-old Josephine Guzman commits suicide at her sister and brother-in-law's house in the Belle Haven area of Alexandria with ant poison.[18][19]
- July 20 – A three judge court denies the suit by the City of Falls Church seeking to annex 6,880 acres of Fairfax County.
- July 23 – 38-year-old Chicagoan Eugene Crumpton fatally shoots 43-year-old Arlingtonian James Harris three times with a .38 caliber revolver in a wooded area off Rugby Road in Pender.[20][21]
August
- August 1 – 21-year-old James C. Davis is killed in a trench collapse on the site of the Pimmit Green subdivision in McLean. Buried under five feet of dirt, it takes 45 minutes to dig him out. Davis is taken to Arlington Hospital, where he is pronounced dead.[22]
- August 3 – 54-year-old construction foreman Robert J. Henderson is killed and 36-year-old Samuel Johnson is fatally injured by a falling crane boom when a supporting cable snaps at a construction site on Route 236 in Alexandria. Suffering multiple injuries, Johnson is taken to the Alexandria Hospital, where he dies August 11.[23][24]
November
- November 27 – 38-year-old Eugene Crumpton pleads guilty to second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of 43-year-old James Harris in Pender on July 23.[25]
December
- December 5 – The Board of Supervisors creates the Fairfax County Park Authority.[26]
- December 13 – Annoyed by his assigned chore of having to kindle the furnace each Sunday morning, 28-year-old farmhand Wesley H. Waters firebombs the Dranesville Methodist Church, causing $6,000 in damage.[27][28]
- December 19 – The Fairfax Circuit Court issues an order authorizing the annexation of 7 ½ miles of Fairfax County by the City of Alexandria, effective January 1.[29]
- December 26 – 65-year-old Austin Gienger is mortally injured near his Springfield home by 22-year-old William E. Broyhill when Broyhill hits Gienger with his car. Gienger is taken to the Alexandria Hospital, where he dies the next day.[30]
Demographics
The population of Fairfax County in 1950 was 98,557.[31]
There were 1,656 farms in Fairfax County in 1950.[32]
References
- ↑ "Alexandria Plans to Annex 7½ Square Miles of Fairfax" Evening Star, 3 Jan. 1950, Two Star, p. 1. NewsBank. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018.
- ↑ "Holober Guilty, Sentenced to Die On February 15" Evening Star, 13 Jan. 1950, Two Star, p. 1. NewsBank. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018.
- ↑ Jordan, Robert P. "Holober Convicted; Sentenced to Death." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 3. Jan 14 1950. ProQuest. Web. 19 Feb. 2018.
- ↑ "Teen-Age Girl's Body, Badly Beaten, Found Near Belle Haven Club" Evening Star, 14 Jan. 1950, Two Star, p. 1. NewsBank. Accessed 24 Aug. 2017.
- ↑ "Woman Found Dead Near Alexandria" The Washington Post (1923-1954): M9. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Jan 15 1950. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ "Leads Traced in Fairfax Inlet Slaying." The Washington Post (1923-1954): B6. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995). Jan 16 1950. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Several Die by Violence" The Evening Star, 24 Jan. 1950, p. 2. NewsBank. Accessed 24 Aug. 2017.
- ↑ "Lake Near D.C. and 566 Acres are for Sale." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Feb 09 1950. ProQuest. Web. 4 Jan. 2014.
- ↑ "Annexation Suit Voted by Falls Church." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Feb 21 1950. ProQuest. Web. 21 Feb. 2014.
- ↑ "Annexation Suit Filed by Falls Church." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Feb 24 1950. ProQuest. Web. 27 Apr. 2014.
- ↑ "5-Mile-Square Fairfax Area Burned by Large Brush Fire." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Mar 02 1950. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1996). Web. 19 Nov. 2012.
- ↑ "2 New Virginia Area Judges Received Law Schooling here." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 23. Mar 10 1950. ProQuest. Web. 6 Sep. 2014.
- ↑ "1 Dies, 1 Saved in Cave-in at Hollin Hill."The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Mar 10 1950. ProQuest. Web. 24 Jan. 2017 .
- ↑ "Arlington Boy Killed in Crash of Auto, Truck." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 10. May 03 1950. ProQuest. Web. 24 Jan. 2017 .
- ↑ "Funeral Today for 3 Victims of Suffocation." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Jun 20 1950. ProQuest. Web. 24 Jan. 2017.
- ↑ "Abandoned Icebox Snuffs Lives of 2 More Children." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Jun 30 1950. ProQuest. Web. 24 Jan. 2017 .
- ↑ "Man Ends Life with Shotgun in Fairfax Home." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Jul 05 1950. ProQuest. Web. 21 Feb. 2014.
- ↑ "Mysterious Death Of Columbian Beauty Probed in Fairfax."Evening Star, 10 Jul. 1950, Two Star, p. 1. NewsBank. Accessed 12 Sep. 2018.
- ↑ "Poison Dose Killed Girl, 17, Says Coroner." The Washington Post (1923-1954), Jul 11 1950, p. 1. ProQuest. Web. 12 Sep. 2018.
- ↑ "Arlington Man found Slain in Wooded Fairfax Section." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Jul 24 1950. ProQuest. Web. 29 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "2 Alert Citizens Help Fairfax Police Catch Suspect in Murder." Evening Star, 24 Jul. 1950, Two Star, p. 20. NewsBank. Accessed 29 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Construction Worker Killed By Cave-in." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Aug 02 1950. ProQuest. Web. 8 July 2017.
- ↑ "Boom Kills Foreman, Hurts Worker as Crane Cable Snaps." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Aug 04 1950. ProQuest. Web. 18 Sep. 2017.
- ↑ "Second Worker Dies After Fairfax Mishap." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Aug 12 1950. ProQuest. Web. 18 Sep. 2017 .
- ↑ "Chicago Man Pleads Guilty In Virginia Fatal Shooting" Evening Star, 28 Nov. 1950, Two Star, p. 21. NewsBank. Accessed 29 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ The Fabric of the Community:Fairfax County Park Authority Biennial Report: 2009 and 2010 in Review. Rep. Fairfax County Park Authority, Jan. 2012. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.
- ↑ "Mystery Fire Damages 100_Year-Old Church." The Washington Post (1923-1954): 1. Dec 14 1950. ProQuest. Web. 3 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Fairfax Farmer Admits Setting Church Afire" Evening Star, 14 Jan. 1951, p. 17. NewsBank. Accessed 3 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "Alexandria Surprises Fairfax By Taking Over 7 1/2-Mile Area" Evening Star, 1 Jan. 1951, Two Star, p. 46. NewsBank. Accessed 3 Dec. 2017.
- ↑ "One Killed, 7 Injured in Accidents." The Washington Post (1923-1954): B1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1994). Dec 28 1950. Web. 19 Oct. 2011
- ↑ Fairfax County Planning Commission. Fairfax County Planning Commission: A Look Back: 1938-2008. Fairfax: Fairfax County Planning Commission, 2008. Fairfax County Planning Commission, 8 July 2008. Web. 30 Dec. 2011.
- ↑ Hoyt, Homer. Economic Survey of the Land Uses of Fairfax County. Rep. Fairfax, VA: Fairfax County Planning Commission, 1954. Print.
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