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December 05, 2011
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Fairfax County Virginia September 2011 Real Estate Statistics
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Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon $30.19 For gardeners and readers of early American history, here is the first book to document the unknown George Washington — landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. Remarkably, the George Washington who spent forty-five years designing and planting the gardens at Mount Vernon is virtually unknown today, hidden behind the icon of the first president’s frozen dignity. In her new book, Mac Gri… |
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Mount Vernon (VA) (Images of America) $14.02 lmages of America: Mount Vernon takes a visual excursion through the history of the home and neighborhood of our first president of the United States, George Washington. Washington’s ancestors came to Northern Virginia over 320 years ago, and by 1786, he had acquired an 8,000-plus-acre tract of land surrounding Mount Vernon. Washington divided this acreage into five farms, which were considered hi… |
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George Washington’s Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary America $13.95 George Washington’s Mount Vernon brings together–for the first time–the details of Washington’s 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his phys… |
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Mosques In The United States $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dar Al-Hijrah, List of Mosques in the United States, Mosque of Shaikh M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Mother Mosque of America, Islamic Center of Washington, Masjid As-Sabur, Noor Islamic Cultural Center, Denver Islamic Society, Daar-Ul-Islam, Saint Louis, Islamic Society of Western Maryland, Baitur Rehman, Nur-Ul-Islam, Islamic Center of Connecticut. Excerpt: Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center; 2008 The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center (Arabic: , English: ) is a mosque in Northern Virginia. It is located in Seven Corners, unincorporated Fairfax County, in the Falls Church area. Founded in 1982 by a group of mostly Arab university students, it is one of the first masjids to be established in Northern Virginia, near Washington, DC. It is also one of the area’s largest and most influential mosques. The Saudi-backed North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) purchased the mosque’s grounds on June 19, 1983. The mosque was first established in a house that is still on the Center’s campus, and now serves as a food bank. The current building, on a 3.4 acre plot, was finished for $5 million in 1991 ($7,985,294 in current dollar terms) with financial help from the Saudi Embassy’s Islamic Affairs Department. In 1993 some area residents attempted to force closure of the mosque, saying it violated Fairfax County zoning ordinances. Worshipers reacted negatively, and believed the attempt was fueled by anti-Islamic bigotry. The mosque sits at the corner of Virginia State Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) and Row Street, near a number of apartment units and single-family homes in which many Muslim families live. Numerous halal restaurants, grocery stores, and other Muslim businesses are also located nearby. The mosque holds prayers five times daily, and Friday prayer attendance exceeds 3,0… More: |