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Moving - Herndon, Virginia

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In the meantime, enjoy reading the brief history we have included for you.

A Brief History of Herndon, Virginia

The Town of Herndon is situated on the western edge of Fairfax County, Virginia, on land that was originally patented to Robert "King" Carter, Jr. and Thomas Barnes. The Carter patent contained the majority of the site of Herndon in Fairfax County while the Barnes land involved a small portion along the Loudoun County line. In 1688, King Charles II of England granted almost five and one-third million acres, known as the Northern Neck, to Thomas Culpeper, second Baron Culpeper of Thoresway. A very small portion of this immense grant became the land on which Herndon is situated. Two thousand acres of this land were subsequently granted by Thomas Fairfax, sixth baron Fairfax of Cameron (son-in-law of Lord Culpeper) to the Carter and Barnes patents in 1728.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, this part of Fairfax County was primarily agricultural. The first sign of settlement was the construction in the early 19th century of a mill in a hollow along a stream near present-day Elden and Locust Streets. As farming flourished and additional settlers arrived in the region, the area around the mill was developed. In 1857, this settlement was selected as one through which the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad would pass.

With the building of the depot in 1857 and the completion of the railroad to Herndon in 1859, more settlers arrived and the village soon had several stores and a livery stable. A post office was needed and application was made for it to Washington, D.C. On July 13, 1858, the settlement was named Herndon and William W. Hollingsworth was appointed postmaster. Various names had been suggested for the community but had been rejected by the U.S. Post Office Department because they were already in use in Virginia or because the department insisted that post offices should not be named after local families. Legend has it that a local man, whose name was not recorded and who had been involved in a shipwreck, brought forward the name Herndon to commemorate the captain of the ship upon hearing ofthe local dilemma.