On April 5, 2009, The Washington Post reported that the National Funeral Home, a facility owned by SCI in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County, Virginia which also acts as a central care center for embalming and body preparation for other nearby SCI-owned operations ( Arlington Funeral Home, Danzansky-Goldberg Memorial Chapel and Demaine Funeral Home ), was storing naked bodies in various stages of decomposition in conditions described as " disgusting, degrading and humiliating ".

During the English Civil War, Ashburton was a temporary refuge for Royalist troops fleeing after their defeat by General Fairfax at nearby Bovey Tracey.

Fairfax was the great grandson of Thomas Fairfax who led the parliamentarian attack at the nearby Battle of Maidstone in 1648 and whose doublet worn during the battle is on display.

Although Fairfax provided lunch to both men and tried to talk them out of it, they eventually headed to an open field nearby and dueled, with Showalter killing Piercy.

The rail line was built to compete with another North / South rail line operated nearby by Seaboard Air Line ( also called the Florida Central & Peninsular, Seaboard Coast Line, and presently CSX ) which ran a different course through Denmark, Fairfax, Estill, Garnett ( parallel to US321 ) and then into Georgia.

Huntley Meadows Park, Fairfax County's largest park, is located nearby.

Upon boarding, Fairfax was escorted to an outraged Captain Moir, and announced that he had orders " to arrest Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell and their secretaries, and send them prisoners on board the United States war vessel nearby.

A small yard located within the nearby Fairfax Towne Center has been preserved to mark the area where Robert E. Lee and his troops marched across to get to the Ox Hill Battlefield.

The station provides easy access to the nearby Town of Vienna, the City of Fairfax, and the main campus of George Mason University.

Notably, it is said that the ' Chideock House Hotel ' was once the headquarters of General Fairfax as he planned the parliamentary overthrow of the nearby castle, culminating in its eventual destruction.

While a seminarian there, he preached at Sharon Chapel ( now All Saints Episcopal Church, Sharon Chapel ) in nearby Fairfax County.

The term " Melrose District " may be used interchangeably by some with the " Fairfax District " which is a nearby area lacking strictly defined boundaries.

It also offers day cruises and flights to the outer Great Barrier Reef, to nearby Lady Musgrave Island and Lady Elliot Island, Hoskyns Island, Fairfax Island, Llewellyn Reef, Fitzroy Reef, Pancake Creek, and the historic Bustard Head lighthouse.

Lake Braddock's renovation is now seen as a model for other renovation projects in Fairfax County, such as the renovation of nearby W. T.

The Light covers regional issues in and near West Marin, including the communities of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Olema, Bolinas, Inverness Park, Nicasio, Stinson Beach, the San Geronimo Valley, Tomales, and the nearby Point Reyes National Seashore, as well as Fairfax and Bodega Bay.

The ruins of the Belvoir Mansion and the nearby Fairfax family grave site are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The sharpest break with tradition, the past and present of `` White Ring Around a Black Core '', may come with the opening of nearby Montgomery County suburbs to Negro residents and, presumably, the consequent conclusion of some whites that they cannot escape the Negro by fleeing to the suburbs.

The Chicago Tribune, which coined the term, includes the city of Chicago, the rest of Cook County, eight nearby Illinois counties: Lake, McHenry, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, Will and Kankakee, and three counties in Indiana: Lake, Porter and LaPorte.

Eleanor supported her uncle's desire to re-capture the nearby County of Edessa, the cause of the Crusade.

Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County.

The US natural gas industry started in 1821 at Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York, when William Hart dug a well to a depth of into gas-bearing shale, then drilled a borehole further, and piped the natural gas to a nearby inn where it was burned for illumination.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

As a young child, Brown and his family lived in extreme poverty in nearby Elko, South Carolina, which at the time was an impoverished town in Barnwell County.

In 1833, Missouri settlers, alarmed by the rapid influx of Mormons, expelled them from Jackson County into the nearby Clay County, where local residents took them in.

He grew up nearby at the home of his father, Henry John Bennett, at Hopewell Cape, the shire town of Albert County, then a town of 1, 800 people.

He was not listed in the 1865 New York state census, but his wife Anne Northup was reported as still living in nearby Moreau in Saratoga County, with their daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Philip Stanton.

* In Kane County, Illinois, the county seat of Geneva and the nearby cities of Batavia, and St. Charles,

Named after the nearby city of Winona, Winona Laura Horowitz was born in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Late on the night of August 15, Stark was awakened by the arrival of Parson Thomas Allen and a band of Massachusetts militiamen from nearby Berkshire County who insisted on joining his force.

The beams were clearly visible from the terrace at Century Country Club in Purchase, New York, from at least as far west as western Morris County, in Flanders, New Jersey, at least as far as the barrier beach of Fire Island in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, and as far south near Trenton, New Jersey in nearby Hamilton.

The seaside resort of Bundoran, located in the very south of the county, along with nearby Rossnowlagh, have been ' reborn ' as the centre of surfing in County Donegal.

Novelist John Grisham grew up in nearby DeSoto County, Mississippi, and many of his books are set in Memphis.

Once one has reached the top, there is a lookout area from which one can see over great distances, and take in not just a panoramic view of the nearby Fairfield County fairgrounds and much of the city of Lancaster, but the changing landscape of Central Ohio as well — from the relatively flat farmlands north of Lancaster to the wooded hills lying south of the city.

The per capita income and average home values have increased noticeably in recent years mainly due to affluent residents relocating from nearby and expensive Westchester County, NY.

The nearby small town of Johnson City, Texas, was named after LBJ's father's cousin, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

Clay County is also a popular choice of residence for military personnel who are stationed on bases in nearby Duval County ( NAS Jacksonville, NS Mayport ).

Virginia coal, delivered by ship in Wales, will be about $2.80 a ton cheaper than Welsh coal delivered by rail from nearby mines.

In 1809, Harry Lee was put in debtors prison ; soon after his release the following year, Harry and Anne Lee and their five children moved to a small house on Cameron Street in Alexandria, Virginia, both because there were then terrific local schools there and because several members of her extended family lived nearby.

His father was a nearby planter, in a rural area of the southwestern Virginia Piedmont.

** Norfolk Naval Shipyard, located in nearby Portsmouth, Virginia

In 1987 Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Tobacco later became a cash crop, with the work of John Rolfe and others, for export and the sustaining economic driver of Virginia and nearby colonies like Maryland.

The Greater Richmond area is served by the Richmond International Airport, located in nearby Sandston, seven miles ( 11 km ) southeast of Richmond and within an hour drive of historic Williamsburg, Virginia.

* From late December 1863 to 1864 the Montana Vigilantes were formed by citizens of Bannack, Virginia City and nearby Nevada City to fight lawlessness in the gold mining region of Montana.

Robert Hurt represents much of the area to south and east of Roanoke, including nearby Franklin County, in the 5th Congressional District of Virginia, which also stretches north to Charlottesville.

At the state-sponsored facility, which was named Jamestown Festival Park, later renamed Jamestown Settlement, full-sized replicas of the three ships that brought the colonists, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery were constructed at a shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and docked at Jamestown, where became a permanent attraction to be both toured, and seen by water from the nearby Jamestown Ferry system operated by VDOT, and relocated for the festival to nearby Glass House Point.

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science ( VIMS ) is the professional graduate school in marine science for the College of William and Mary, the country's second-oldest university which is headquartered in nearby Williamsburg.

During the American Revolutionary War, independence as won at nearby Yorktown, a major tourist attraction of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia.

Amtrak serves nearby Newport News, Virginia and Williamsburg, Virginia with three trains a day.

In the post-bellum period, an historically black college which later became Virginia State University ( VSU ) was established nearby in Ettrick in Chesterfield County.

The primary airport for the Virginia Peninsula is the Newport News / Williamsburg International Airport located nearby in Newport News.

In the aftermath of the Indian attacks of 1622 and 1644, they became tributary to England and relocated to nearby Ettrick, and its opposite bank, near Fort Henry ( within modern-day Petersburg, Virginia ).

Also in that year, Captain Henry Fleet and Francis Poythress built a small fort nearby, on " Fleet's Hill " just west of the current city, now occupied by the campus of Virginia State University.

Charlottesville is best known as the home to two U. S. Presidents ( Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe ), and nearby is that of James Madison in Orange, as well as the home of the University of Virginia, which, along with Monticello is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Delaware County lies in the river and bay drainage area named " Delaware " in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, Governor of the nearby English colony of Virginia.

Nathan Harris was a minuteman ( who could literally be ready in one minute ) as well as an activist for civil rights and was responsible for " freeing " a nearby slave ( who was under the impression that they were in Virginia, where slavery was still legal.

This informal freedom allowed Hemings to live in Virginia, and she remained with her two youngest sons in nearby Charlottesville for the next nine years.

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and deliberately crashed the plane into the Pentagon in nearby Arlington, Virginia.