Oakton Trolley Station - Oakton, Virginia
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flyingmoose
N 38° 52.763 W 077° 17.818
18S E 300752 N 4305899
Located at the intersection of Gray Street and Oakton Drive.
Waymark Code: WM181F9
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2023
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An unsuspecting house in a neighborhood of similar architecture. This is the last remaining trolley station that was a part of the Washington and Fairfax Electric Railway Company that provided service from 1904 to 1939. This building also hosted a post office and store. In 1939, the the station was converted to a general store. Eventually the tracks were removed and the Trolley station was converted into a residence in 1988.
If you are visiting this site, you will still see the path of the trolley track that paralleled Oakton Drive.
Taken From Wikipedia (
visit link) :
Oakton Trolley Station is a historic trolley station located at Oakton, Fairfax County, Virginia. The Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Railway, which operated electric trolleys that travelled between Fairfax City and downtown Washington, D.C., from 1904 to 1939, constructed the station in 1905. The building has a three-story vernacular frame. It has a rectangular plan, with a wrap-around open porch, weatherboards and a tin roof.
The trolley line used the building as a station until the line closed in 1939. A post office and a general store then used the building until it became a boarding house. The building was restored in 1988 as a single family dwelling.
On October 19, 1994, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources added the trolley station to the Virginia Landmarks Register. The National Park Service then added the station to the National Register of Historic Places on February 8, 1995. In 2011, the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust entered into an historic preservation agreement that legally protects the historic resource.