About Falls Church, Virginia

Falls Church is a city of 14,658 people in Northern Virginia. At 2.11 square miles, it is the smallest incorporated town or city in the state. It takes its name from the Falls Church, a Church of England parish founded in 1734 where Native American trails crossed. Those trails later became Little Falls Street, Broad Street and Lee Highway. The parish was named for the Little Falls of the Potomac, rapids several miles to the northeast that early colonists knew well.

George Washington and George Mason both served on the church's vestry. In the summer of 1776, a copy of the Declaration of Independence was read to the people from its steps. The village became a township within Fairfax County in 1875. In 1948 it separated from Fairfax County and became the incorporated City of Falls Church, which governs itself with the powers of a county.

  • A village caught between armiesFalls Church voted 44 to 26 for secession. Confederate troops held the village and the hills to the east, which looked toward Washington, until they pulled back to Centreville on September 28, 1861. Union troops then took the hills, but they never fully controlled the village. In 1864 and 1865, Mosby's Raiders rode into the center of town to seize and kill people they suspected of siding with the North.
  • The first rural NAACP branchIn 1915 the town passed an ordinance that split it into segregated districts. Black residents organized against it, and their fight produced the first rural branch of the NAACP. The ordinance went unenforced after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Buchanan v. Warley in 1917. The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, founded in 1997 by Edwin B. Henderson II, now keeps this civil rights history.
  • Five on the National RegisterBirch House, Cherry Hill, the Falls Church, Mount Hope and the West Cornerstone are all listed. Cherry Hill is an 1845 Greek Revival farmhouse with an 1856 barn, and the city owns it. The West Cornerstone, in Andrew Ellicott Park, is one of the original boundary stones of the District of Columbia, set in 1791.
  • The State Theatre since 1936The State Theatre opened as a movie house in 1936, and people said no other theater on the East Coast had air conditioning before it. It closed in 1983. After a long renovation in the 1990s added a stage, a bar and a restaurant, it opened again as a live music venue.

Find your street

Names on the Falls Church map

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Places and landmarks7

  • Falls Church City Hall
  • Oakwood Cemetery
  • Offutt Village
  • Seven Corners
  • Tyler Gardens
  • Virginia Forest
  • West Falls Church

Streets and roads134

  • West Broad Street
  • South Washington Street
  • North Washington Street
  • Leesburg Pike
  • East Broad Street
  • Lee Highway
  • Hillwood Avenue
  • Falls Church Drive
  • Gordon Road
  • South West Street
  • South Maple Avenue
  • Haycock Road
  • Lincoln Avenue
  • Wilson Boulevard
  • Seaton Lane
  • Grove Avenue
  • Berry Street
  • North West Street
  • West Cameron Road
  • Cleave Drive
  • East Columbia Street
  • Timber Lane
  • West Marshall Street
  • Park Avenue
  • Great Falls Street
  • Roosevelt Boulevard
  • Poplar Drive
  • South Spring Street
  • Jackson Street
  • Ellison Street
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  • North Oak Street
  • Little Falls Street
  • North Roosevelt Street
  • South Oak Street
  • North Maple Avenue
  • Parker Avenue
  • North Van Buren Street
  • South Virginia Avenue
  • West Annandale Road
  • West Columbia Street
  • North Cherry Street
  • Pennsylvania Avenue
  • Buxton Road
  • Villa Ridge Road
  • South Lee Street
  • North Virginia Avenue
  • Noland Street
  • East Jefferson Street
  • Forest Drive
  • Randolph Street
  • East Fairfax Street
  • Midvale Street
  • Lawton Street
  • West Rosemary Lane
  • West Greenway Boulevard
  • Madison Lane
  • Rollins Street
  • Fulton Avenue
  • North Tuckahoe Street
  • North Lee Street
  • Greenwich Street
  • West George Mason Road
  • North Fairfax Street
  • Riley Street
  • Sherrow Avenue
  • Laura Drive
  • Birch Street
  • Chanel Terrace
  • Kent Street
  • Anne Street
  • Douglass Avenue
  • Tyson Drive
  • Gresham Place
  • Meridian Street
  • Fowler Street
  • Offutt Drive
  • Rees Place
  • Highland Avenue
  • Knollwood Drive
  • Patterson Street
  • Ridge Place
  • Parker Street
  • Spruce Street
  • Robinson Place
  • Tollgate Way
  • James Street
  • Tracy Place
  • Walnut Street
  • Grace Lane
  • Pine Street
  • Kennedy Street
  • Gibson Place
  • Irving Street
  • Hillier Street
  • Gordons Road
  • Shreve Road
  • West Westmoreland Road
  • South Cherry Street
  • Dorchester Road
  • North Underwood Street
  • Jackson Court
  • North Sycamore Street
  • Whittier Circle
  • East Annandale Road
  • Falls Avenue
  • Hampton Court
  • Rowell Court
  • Rolling Trce
  • South Roosevelt Street
  • Crane Street
  • Welcome Drive
  • Church Place
  • Abbott Lane
  • Railroad Avenue
  • Fairfax Street
  • Steeples Court
  • Shadow Walk
  • Shirley Street
  • Park Place
  • Liberty Avenue
  • Lea Court
  • Lynn Place
  • West Jefferson Street
  • Tinners Hill Street
  • Gibson Street
  • Katie Court
  • Fellows Court
  • Oak Haven Drive
  • Langston Lane
  • North Four Mile Drive
  • Lanier Place
  • Dulany Place
  • Walden Court
  • Spring Court

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