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The Freeman General Store was built as a large two-story store and residence in 1859 on six acres of land adjacent to the newly-arrived Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad in the Fairfax County town of Vienna. From 1906 to 1929, Leon Freeman, Fairfax County‘s first Republican delegate to the Virginia General Assembly after the Civil War, operated the store. In the mid-1970s, the town restored the building to resemble its appearance in two Civil War-era photographs. At the time of its listing in the registers, Historic Vienna, Inc., operated the first floor of the Freeman Store as a restored general store and post office with interpretive exhibits, while the second floor served as a museum and office space.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
