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Woodson House, renamed after the large high school built to its immediate south, was once the seat of a rather large dairy farm on Little River Turnpike. That's about all I know for now, at least until I get a chance to get down to Fairfax City Library to pull up its old records.

... Or this detail, taken of the now purposeless gutters at the abandoned Buckley home.

I am not at liberty to discuss exactly where this particular home is, other than to say that it is slated for demolition. Which is pretty sad, considering how much love and tender care the home received at some point in the past.

The terminus of Hope Park Road, which we discussed previously.

There's a real estate sign out-of-frame here that suggests that you can become the proud owner of a prime parcel of land down this road today.

You couldn't ask for a more exclusive driveway, I'd think.

The chimney of the Buckley house. I'm no expert, but it looks to me like the bottom part of the chimney just might have been reused from an older structure that was once in this location.

The Marr Monument in front of the old Courthouse in downtown Fairfax.

This house, built sometime around 1937, is doing its best to act invisible.

It's unclear if the home was destroyed recently by fire, or if it's been slowly decaying like this for years. County tax records show a dramatic shift in the value of the building in 2008, though that could just be them catching up with the property's condition after the property went on the market.

According to the County tax records, the Buckley family doesn't own any land in Hope Park any longer, yet, for whatever reason, this wonderful old sign still remains.

Could it be that the family still remains on the Buckley land, and that it has merely passed down through marriage to another name?

It remains a mystery to me.

The old Fairfax Court House, built in 1800.

This is not usually the kind of blackberries that I prefer. And I really was quite ensnared when I was trying to get this shot.

Here's another angle of the smaller house from the "Buckley" property, in all of its ominous glory.

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