Part V--Notes

Community

For an extensive study of community relations, see Kolb and Brunner, A Study of Rural Society, 75-139.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia, 35.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Derr Report, 1930, 16.

Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Andrew M. D. Wolf, "Country Medicine in Fairfax County, Virginia, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," unpublished monograph, January 23, 1976, copy in Virginiana, 5-6.

Frances Darlington Simpson quoted in Out of Frying Pan, 26.

Louise Ryder, "Some Thoughts about Frying Pan Baptist Church," unpublished monograph, June, 1972; and "How Frying Pan Park Got Its Name," Fairfax Herald, n.d. (clipping), and miscellaneous notes on Frying Pan by Louise Ryder, June, 1977, courtesy of Louise Ryder.

John Davis quoted in Ryder, "Some Thoughts about Frying Pan Baptist Church," 4; Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia; and Ryder notes.

Derr Reports, 1919 and 1925; and Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979.

14th Census of the United States, 1920, National Archives and Records Service.

Fairfax County Deed Books, Liber E-6, 48-51; and Liber H-5, 616-617.

Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County, 70-71.

Ibid.; Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; "Floris Home Demonstration Club," Herndon News-Observer, March 10, 1932; Howard Simmons, "History of Floris Vocational High School," unpublished monograph, n.d., copy courtesy of Elizabeth and Emma Ellmore; Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; and Gladys T. Spencer to Mrs. Ernest Ryder, February 15, 1979, copy courtesy of Louise Ryder.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County, 71; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978; Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978.

Simmons; Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; Beard/Pryor, February 28, 1979; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Simmons; Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Interview with Lulah Ferguson by Steve Matthews, Falls Church, Virginia, August 16, 1971.

Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Herndon News-Observer, March 12, 1925.

Simmons, "Floris Retains High Rating at Blacksburg," Herndon News-Observer, April 20, 1928.

"Commencement Exercises in Our County High Schools," Herndon News-Observer, June 16, 1927.

Simmons; Minutes of Farmer's Club #1, June 6, 1910; and Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Rogers/Corbat, et al., June 12, 1970.

Ryder, "Some Thoughts About Frying Pan Baptist Church"; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979; and Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia, 8.

Floris United Methodist Church: An Historical Account, 1891-1974, (Herndon, Virginia, 1975), 40.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Ibid.

Floris Methodist Church, 23.

Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; Peck/Netherton, January 23, 1978.

Telephone conversation with Louise Ryder, January 25, 1979.

Ibid.; R. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978; Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; and Herndon News-Observer, May 13, 1926.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Gladys Spencer to Louise Ryder, February 15, 1979; and note to author by Louise McNair Ryder, n.d., (spring, 1979).

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979 (notes taken after interview); and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; and Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Farmer's Club #1, Minutes, August 21, 1913.

Lucy Steptoe Report, 1924.

Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia, 27-28.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

"Fairfax County Fair," Herndon News-Observer, September 23, 1926.

Derr Report, 1931; and Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Program, Fifth Annual Floris Community Fair, Thursday, August 24, 1939, copy in Beard Report, 1939.

Rice to author, January 30, 1979.

Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Nearly everyone spoke enthusiastically of the Floris fair. See especially Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979; and Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

"Family Reunion at Floris," Herndon News-Observer, May 5, 1927; "Events in Floris," Herndon News-Observer, March 21, 1935.

Simpson, Virginia Country Life and Cooking, 52.

Among those who chose such careers were Joseph Beard and John Beard (county extension agents); Franklin Ellmore, on the staff of Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Chester McLaren, head of agricultural education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and Jack Patton, of the Fish and Wildlife Commission in North Carolina; see Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

E. B. Henderson and Edith Hussey, History of the Fairfax County Branch of the NAACP, October, 1965, 7-8.

Rogers/Corbat, et al., June 12, 1970.

Derr Report, 1936.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979; and Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979.

Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

See, for example, "The Future of Fairfax County," Herndon News-Observer, October 20, 1927.

Editorial, Fairfax Herald, April 23, 1926; and Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

"The Nudist Camp," Herndon News-Observer, October 8, 1933.

Derr Report, 1937; and Louis A. Stearns, "The Present State of the Oriental Fruit Moth in Northern Virginia," Virginia Agricultural Extension Bulletin 234.

Netherton, et al., Fairfax County, 483.

Farmer's Club #1, Minutes, October 21, 1909.