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Emmanuelle Riker
Retirement Village Law in NSW guides practitioners advising those who are resident in, or considering residency in, retirement villages and those moving out of this accommodation, including into higher care. It analyses the interconnected legislation and illuminates its meaning with court and tribunal decisions which have interpreted the provisions in practice.
This book draws together the main sources of law governing the day-to-day operation of retirement villages. This centres on the Retirement Villages Act 1999 and Retirement Villages Regulation 2009 and their inter-relationship with the Real Property Act 1990, Residential Tenancies Act, 2010 Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 and the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth).
While the City has lost much of its rural village character and charm,and has meanwhile acquired some ugly modernity in spots, the City'spreservation ordinance, adopted in 1984, throws a protective cloakagainst further demolition around structures built as residences priorto 1911. Other buildings, such as churches and historic sites, are alsoprotected by the ordinance, subject to certification by the HistoricalCommission to a Register. In addition, the Falls Church VillagePreservation and Improvement Society and others continually seek ways torestore what aesthetic features have been lost.
In preparing this little book it has been the aim of the Editor toobtain facts of the early history, as well as to set forth what changestime has wrought in the erstwhile veritable hamlet of years gone by. Tothis end he has exerted every effort in the examination of records, thatauthentic data only, in describing the old church and village, mayappear in these pages. Aside from the descendants of the old settlers,the heads of many households in the village of Falls Church have leftkindred and friends in other sections of the country, and identifiedthemselves heartily in the work of developing and beautifying thenatural advantages of the spot they have selected for the building ofnew homes. It is but natural that interest should be taken in theevidence of their thrift and enterprise, by those whose lives werelinked with theirs in times past, as in the town they have helped tobuild up. The attempt has been to join the past with the present, inreciting incidents of the early days, to show no less the improvementsthat have come as the years roll on.
Falls Church, while a Virginia village, is thoroughly cosmopolitan.According to a recent census only about fifty per cent. of itsinhabitants are natives of Virginia, the rest coming from the variousStates of the Union or from foreign countries.
Falls Church might properly be called a national village, since itscitizens are chiefly employees of the government, and the interests ofits eleven hundred people naturally center at the National Capitol.
Every geographical section of the United States has here arepresentative type of citizen who has chosen this quiet village for ahome. For this and other reasons Falls Church is probably the mostthoroughly American community in the country. This distinction, ifadmitted, must come as a natural sequence from its situation as a suburbof the Nation's capital, from the cosmopolitan character of its society,and from the fact that so many of its residents are connected with theExecutive Departments as a part of the machinery of representativegovernment.
The village is situated in a county of the Old Dominion rich in eventsof historic interest. In Colonial days, in the times of the Revolution,as in the days of the civil strife, Fairfax County furnished her quotaof illustrious sons. At Gunston Hall on the Potomac dwelt George Mason,author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, pronounced the most remarkablepaper of the epoch, and the foundation of the great American assertionof independence as afterward draughted by Jefferson. In Fairfax Countylived and died the immortal Washing[Pg 2]ton, and his ashes repose in itssoil at his beloved Mount Vernon. During the late civil war every partof its territory was a battle ground and breast-works thrown up bycontending armies over a generation ago may still be seen here and therewithin its borders. At the beginning of our war with Spain twenty-fivethousand volunteer soldiers from a dozen States pitched their tents on afavored spot in this ancient county, where they were schooled toproficiency in the art of modern warfare.
Falls Church thirty years ago was a mere hamlet of, perhaps, a dozenhouses. It is to-day the largest town in the county of Fairfax and itspopulation is steadily increasing. Forces are now at work which mayeventually make it the largest town in Northern Virginia, with thepossible exception of Alexandria. Upon the completion of the new bridgesnow in course of construction across the Potomac and the improvedfacilities for reaching Washington by means of steam roads and trolleylines, the tide of suburban home-seekers from the capital city must turnthis way, whereby this Virginia village is destined to become a Virginiacity which may bind the old mother commonwealth closer than ever beforeto the Federal City and the National government.[Pg 3]
Falls Church is an incorporated town of about eleven hundredinhabitants. Endowed by State law with the name of town when a merehamlet, it is still "the village" to its citizens. It is situated on theBluemont branch of the Southern Railway 9 miles from Alexandria, and 45miles from Bluemont at the foot of the Blue Ridge. An electric railwayconnects it with Georgetown, D. C., 6 miles distant, and it is 13 milesover the Southern Railway to the business center of Washington. Locatedoriginally in Fairfax County its growing area has overlapped into theadjoining county of Alexandria, taking within its corporate limits theextreme southwestern part of what was at one time the District ofColumbia.
It is essentially a village of homes, nearly all of which are set inample grounds adorned with rare trees, well-kept lawns, and tastefulshrubbery and hedges. Its fourteen miles of streets are bordered withbeautiful maples, and in summer the principal avenues are bowers ofliving green.
Of all those who followed Messrs. Buxton and Kinsley to Falls Church,who built homes and made the little straggling settlement at thecross-roads the beautiful village it is to-day, space will not permiteven a brief mention. But there are a number of well-known citizensstill residing here who formed the nucleus of that "department colony"of thirty years ago, and through whose influence in great measure thisvillage has become a settlement of government employees. Most prominentamong these settlers of the 70's who are connected with the executivedepartments in Washington are Messrs. G. A. L. Merrifield and M. S.Roberts of the Pension Bureau, Albert P. Eastman of the War Departmentand George F. Rollins of the Treasury Department.
When scarcely entitled to be designated by the name of village, thelittle settlement on the Leesburg turnpike known as Falls Church was, byan act of the General Assembly of Virginia, incorporated as a town. Theact in question was approved March 30, 1875, and on April 13 followingthe new town began its career with the following officials dulyinstalled:[Pg 10] Mayor, Dr. J. J. Moran; Clerk, H. J. England; Town Sergeant,E. F. Crocker; Councilmen, Dr. J. J. Moran, George B. Ives, J. E. Birch,T. T. Fowler, Isaac Crossman, J. J. Carter, Dr. L. E. Gott.
The Village Improvement Society, an important factor in the growth anddevelopment of the village, was organized about twenty years ago. Thechief object of the society has been the improvement and adornment ofthe streets and the fine shade trees which emborder the villagethoroughfares everywhere attest the fidelity of its members to theobject in view. In addition to the work of this character the societyhas aided in various other ways in the work of improving the villagebesides furnishing social entertainments for its members and friends.About fifteen hundred dollars have been raised by the society anddisbursed to excellent advantage in securing substantial benefits to thepublic weal.
Pioneer Business Men. Among the most prominent business men of FallsChurch who located here about the time the place was incorporated as atown, or soon thereafter, may be mentioned Mr. M. E. Church. Mr. Churchis a native of Vermont, and upon settling here engaged in the drugbusiness; he now conducts a successful real estate, loan and insurancebusiness. He is also connected with other important commercialinterests, and has been an indefatigable worker in promoting the welfareof the village.
Mr. George W. Mankin, a native of this State, was one of the earlysettlers in the village. He conducted a general merchandise business fora long period of years, but at present is engaged in the drug businesswith his son Mr. Geo. T. Mankin, under the firm name of George T. Mankin& Co. Mr. Mankin has established as high reputation as a business manand citizen as had his brother Mr. Charles Mankin, the well known drygoods merchant, but recently deceased.
Mr. Isaac Crossman, who came here from Pennsylvania soon after the civilwar, purchased for farming purposes a large block of land which is nowsituated almost in the center of the village. The price paid was aboutforty dollars per acre. A large part of this land has been divided intotown lots and sold. To indicate the increase in real estate values sincethe war, the land of this Crossman property lying nearest the northernboundary of the village sells for one thousand dollars and upward peracre.
Few Old Houses. Practically all the houses of the village are modern,but there are a few old buildings of historic interest. Among these isthe Lawton house, at one time the residence of[Pg 21] General Lawton. Thishouse was the headquarters of General Longstreet when the place was inpossession of the Confederates soon after the first battle of Manassas.What was once known as the Star Tavern, now a grocery store, is a relicof by-gone days. It flourished in the days before the railroad came, andwas a favorite stopping place for travelers over the road from themountains leading past its doors to the then important mart, Alexandria.The place was kept during the civil war by W. H. Erwin, father of ourtownsmen Messrs. Walter, George and Munson Erwin.
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