_Today, approximately 14,000 people live at Fairfax Court House. There are seven white churches--Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran, and Christian Science. There are two black churches. There are three schools for elementary students, one junior high school, and one senior high school, and construction will begin soon for a college. There are three shopping centers, several apartment buildings, a medical center, two large telephone buildings, a library, and a bank. Extensive additions have been made to the original court house and an eight acre tract of land has been purchased on South Payne Street for the future Town Hall._ _Fairfax is just one small example of the results of colonization. Through the trials and tribulations endured by the Jamestown and Maryland colonists, a community was carved out of a wilderness. Through perseverance and courage the colonists built and held on to a civilization. They created homes, schools, churches, and established an independent stronghold on a new continent. It was not easy. Neither will the conquest of a new planet be easy but certainly a wonderful heritage has been left by those who went before._ _As a visitor to Fairfax County in 1798 wrote--_ _"There is a compound of virtue and vice in every human character; no man was ever yet faultless; but whatever may be advanced against Virginians, their good qualities will outweigh their defects; and when the effervescence of youth has abated, when reason asserts her empire, there is no man on earth who discovers more exalted sentiment, more contempt of baseness, more love of justice, more sensibility of feeling, than a Virginian."_ BIBLIOGRAPHY Bull Run Remembers _by Joseph Mills Hanson_ Deed Books and Will Books in Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia Fairfax County, Virginia--1907 Fairfax County, Virginia, Yesterday ... Today ... Tomorrow--1952. Flags of America _by W. H. Waldron_ Gentlemen's Magazine Historic Fairfax County _by Columbus D. Choate_ Historic, Progressive Fairfax County in Old Virginia--1928 Historical Society of Fairfax County, Va., Inc. Yearbook--1951 Historical Society of Fairfax County, Va., Inc. Yearbook--1952-1953 Historical Society of Fairfax County, Va., Inc. Yearbook--1954 Historical Society of Fairfax County, Va., Inc. Yearbook--1955 Historical Society of Fairfax County, Va., Inc. Yearbook--1956-1957. History of Fairfax County _by Elizabeth Burke_ History of Truro Parish in Virginia, _by Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D., and edited by the late Rev. Edward L. Goodwin_. Landmarks of Old Prince William _by Fairfax Harrison_--Vol. I, II Manassas (Bull Run)--1953 Memorials of Virginia Clerks (1888). _Compiled by F. Johnston_, former clerk of Roanoke County. Mosby and His Men _by Crawford_ Mosby's Rangers _by Williamson_ Pictorial War Record The Alexandria Gazette The Fairfax Herald The Falls Church Echo