Part Vi--Notes

Frying Pan Park

Netherton, et al., Fairfax County, 544-568; and Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979.

Joseph Beard to W. T. Woodson, Fairfax, Virginia, March 26, 1957, copy in Frying Pan Farm files, Fairfax County Park Authority (hereafter cited as FCPA).

Copy of deed, December 6, 1960, in Land Acquisitions files, Frying Pan Farm, FCPA; and telephone conversation with Joseph Beard, April 26, 1979.

Additional land was acquired as follows: .9726 acre on condemnation award from Floyd Lee, July 5, 1962 (cost $1,250); 38 acres bought from Floyd Kidwell, June 26, 1965 (cost $1,500 per acre); 5.2771 acres on condemnation award from Emma Neal Lee, January 29, 1965 (cost $3,958); 3.5684 acres (including house and outbuildings) bought from Floyd Kidwell, March 26, 1970 (cost $34,275); 19.0766 acres bought from Annie May Poole Whittier, September, 1974 (cost $80,121.72); and 21.63898 acres on condemnation award from Robert E. Clark, May 31, 1977 (cost $173,000). It is interesting to note the rise in land prices during these years. See Land Acquisitions records, FCPA.

Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979.

See deed between Asa E. Bradshaw and Floyd Kidwell, in Fairfax County Deed Books, Liber L-11, 297.

Memorandum from Frying Pan Park Supervisory Board, April, 1972; notes from Farm Committee, June, 1972; and "Proposed Plan for Kidwell Farm," Frying Pan Park, January, 1974, all in Frying Pan Park files, FCPA.

John Schlebecker, Living Historical Farms: A Walk into the Past (Washington, D.C., 1968), 5-16.

Memorandum, April, 1972.

Interview with John Hopkins, farm manager, March 6, 1979.

"Henry Moffett: 'A Mighty Man,'" Washington Star, April 18, 1976; notes on interview with Henry Moffett by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, n.d., (1978).

Ibid.

"4-H Bicentennial Fair at Frying Pan Farm," Fairfax Journal, August 6, 1976.

1970 Annual Report, Frying Pan Farm files, FCPA.

Master Plan, Frying Pan Farm, 1977, copy in files, FCPA.

Annual Report, 1976, Frying Pan Park; untitled memorandum, May 3, 1974, both in files, FCPA; and Hopkins, March 6, 1979.

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All transcripts and notes from interviews are in the Virginiana Collection, Fairfax County Public Library.

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Beard, Joseph. Interview by Nan Netherton and Patrick Reed. Fairfax, Virginia, November, 1974.

Beard, Joseph. Interview by Elizabeth Pryor. Fairfax, Virginia, January 23, 1979, and February 2, 1979.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Underlined passages are indicated by underline.

Punctuation has been corrected without note.

The following misprints have been corrected: "buildings" corrected to "building" (page 1) "acomplishing" corrected to "accomplishing" (page 28) missing "c" added (page 29) "for" corrected to "from" (page 58) "commuity" corrected to "community" (page 69) "Febrary" corrected to "February" (page 80) "mongraph" corrected to "monograph" (page 80) "innnocent" corrected to "innocent" (page 108) "familes" corrected to "families" (page 109) "politlcal" corrected to "political" (page 110) "alientation" corrected to "alienation" (page 110)