The main campus of George Mason University is situated on just south of the City of Fairfax, Virginia in central Fairfax County, approximately west of Washington, D. C.

The Fairfax campus is served on the Washington Metro by the Vienna station on the Orange line.

Recent years have once again brought a new construction boom to the Fairfax campus, which is currently undergoing a massive, $ 900 million construction campaign ( between 2002 – 2012 ) based on the 2002 University Master Plan.

Fairfax is the only campus of George Mason University with on-campus student housing.

Lord Fairfax Community College has a campus in Luray which provides students with nearly all necessary classes needed to graduate from the institution.

In addition to its main campus, MSU maintains a fruit research station in Mountain Grove and the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies program housed in Fairfax, Virginia.

The NGA was headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland until 2011, when NGA consolidated many of its regional activities as part of the BRAC into a new campus near Ft. Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia.

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

Gannett did not own these buildings, and moved from their original home to a new campus in Fairfax County, Virginia in 2002.

For the 1990 season the team was based at the Patriot Center on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

The school is located on a campus at the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and trendy Melrose Avenue.

Students from LA High attended Fairfax High on " double sessions ," with Fairfax students using the campus from 7am-12 noon, and LA High students from 1pm-6pm.

Additional space on the Fairfax campus houses the Institute's Center for Social Complexity. The Institute's facility will be expanded to

The law school is located in Arlington, further east of the university's main campus in Fairfax.

As well as the construction of the Fairfax campuses network of hot and cold water piping that provides power efficient, centralized heating and cooling for the university's buildings.

Clifton was home to Clifton High School from 1912 to 1944, when the school was torn down after the construction of Fairfax High School.

The Farmers Market at Fairfax Avenue and 3rd Street still retained an Old World atmosphere until 2001, when construction of The Grove began, with open-air vegetable stalls and cafes, and many Jewish residents of the area continue to frequent the market as part of their shopping or kibbitzing routine, which retains an attraction for many seniors and immigrants ; but the addition of The Grove, an outdoor mall built on the former parking lot for the market, has brought new crowds and new visitors, including many tourists and chain-store shoppers as well as severe parking problems to the Farmers Market daily.

* McDonough Bolyard Peck, is a construction management company in the United States with headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.

On September 11, 1985, Congressman Waxman added an amendment to that year's Federal Transportation Budget removing all subway construction funds, citing safety concerns after an unrelated methane explosion in the Fairfax District.

Haskett, her husband and daughter moved to Fairfax, Virginia, working with two D. C. area law firms in planning and implementing strategic business development and providing assistance in their immigration and estate planning work.

During September 1, Pope, apprised of Jackson's movement, began to withdraw toward Fairfax Court House.

Hostilities began after the repudiation of a treaty of neutrality entered into by Fairfax with the Royalists.

Named after the Ball family ( relatives of George Washington ), whose family cemetery lies in the neighborhood at N. Stafford Street and N. Fairfax Dr. Ballston began as Birch's Crossroads and later became Ball's Crossroads at what is now the intersection of North Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard.

" Baldy " Harper in 1961, the organization later began an association with George Mason University and moved to Fairfax, Virginia in 1985.

Service began on December 17, 1983, making it the first station to open in Fairfax County, and the first to extend the system beyond the Capital Beltway.

At the close of the Civil War, the congregation of Zion Church re-formed and began to meet in the Fairfax Courthouse.

From 1985 to the end of 2010, Fairfax Financial had a compound growth rate of approximately 25 % in book value per share ( per year ), it's about 243 times what Fairfax began with in 1985.

Upon returning home to Fairfax, California, the Garveys continued tango lessons and began organizing milongas around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Charles accordingly marched out of Oxford on the 7th towards Stow-on-the-Wold, on the very day as it chanced, that Fairfax began his return march from Blandford.

While attending Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, she was singing on a small radio station when she was heard by an agent who signed her and began booking her with larger stations.

The HFStival began as the WHFS Fourth of July Festival, an all-day concert followed by a fireworks display, which was held twice at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia 1990 and 1991.

Camp began his baseball career as a catcher at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia.

His career in journalism began in 1966 when he founded and edited an underground newspaper at Fairfax High School in West Hollywood, California.

First intended to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River to reach the coal fields in the western part of Hampshire County, Virginia, that are now within Mineral County, West Virginia, the AL & H began operating to Vienna in 1859 from a terminal station on Fairfax Street in old town Alexandria.

The Mike O ' Meara Show began on April 14, 2008 having moved the show back to the WJFK studio in Fairfax, Virginia.

In the early 1960s four buildings were constructed around a lawn in Fairfax, appropriately named East, West, North ( later, Krug Hall ), and South ( later, Finley Hall ).

He moved to Fairfax in Marin County, California, in the early 1970s, where he joined the 35-voice Fairfax Street Choir and played guitar for a shuffle blues band called Osceola.

In 2009 Mythic Entertainment, based in Fairfax, Virginia, became part of the RPG / MMO Group, later being renamed BioWare Mythic in early 2010.

The area the City of Fairfax now encompasses was settled in the early 18th century by farmers from Virginia's Tidewater region.

Many of the early settlers of what became Clarke County were children of Tidewater planters, who settled on large land grants from Lord Fairfax.

Although the first land grant in the area was issued by Lord Fairfax in 1740 it was not until 1764 that Purcellville's first known settler, James Dillon from Buck's County, Pennsylvania, arrived. 1 As might be expected, it would take a road to make a town ; the early ox cart track which wound westward from Leesburg, known later as the " Great Road ," served the purpose.

In early August 1742, the place name " Mount Vernon " first appears in a surviving letter, penned by Lawrence's Potomac River neighbor, William Fairfax, of Belvoir.

Like its Fairfax stablemate The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age announced in early 2007 that it would be moving from a broadsheet format to the smaller Berliner size, in the footsteps of The Guardian and The Courier-Mail.

Hoppus lived in Fairfax, Virginia ( a suburb of Washington, D. C .) during his early high school years and attended Annandale High School during his sophomore year ; at which time he received his first bass and attended his first concert ( They Might Be Giants ).

* A late-night coffee shop / diner called Nova Express Cafe existed at 426 N. Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, until closing in March 2008.

Lewis remained in the Fairfax Sufi community through the early 1920s.

The Pan-Pacific Auditorium was a landmark structure in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California which once stood at 7600 West Beverly Boulevard near the site of Gilmore Field, an early Los Angeles baseball venue predating Dodger Stadium.

Among his lovers were popular Russian ballerina and early film actress Vera Karalli and Pauline Fairfax Potter, an American fashion designer and writer.

Though it was only on 25 March that the second and modified form of the ordinance was agreed to by both Houses, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Philip Skippon ( who were not members of parliament ) had been approved as lord general and major-general ( of the infantry ) respectively of the new army as early as 21 January.

The Corkbush Field Mutiny, also known as the Ware Mutiny occurred on 15 November 1647, during the early stages of the Second English Civil War at the Corkbush Field rendezvous, when soldiers were ordered to sign a declaration of loyalty to Thomas Fairfax, the commander-in-chief of the New Model Army ( NMA ), and the Army Council.

In the early 1990s, AMS moved its corporate headquarters to Fairfax, Virginia.

Born in Wanstead, Essex, Morison spent most of his childhood and early adult years ( 1896 – 1912 ) at the family home in Fairfax Road, Harringay.

Historian David J. Eicher discounts both the Battle of Fairfax Court House and the Battle of Philippi as " mere skirmishes " ( despite his characterization of the former engagement as " ostensibly the first land battle of the war ") and says the first " real land battle of the conflict " was the Battle of Big Bethel, although after a brief summary of the Battle of Big Bethel he characterizes the early Civil War engagements without apparent distinction as " these first minor skirmishes.

The band was formed in 1994 under the early moniker Blind, but made their first performance as Godhead shortly after in Fairfax, Virginia that April.

The Original Spanish Kitchen was a restaurant on Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California, USA, that became the subject of an urban legend starting in the early 1960s.

The company had common ownership with WEEL an AM radio station licensed to Fairfax which was one of the Washington, DC area's major top 40 stations in the late 60s and early 70s.

Picfair Village takes its name from the majestic Picfair movie theatre which stood at the corner of Pico and Fairfax until the early 1980s.