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SESSION INTRODUCED 24108911D SENATE RESOLUTION NO.
SESSION ENROLLED SENATE RESOLUTION NO.
164 I Offered March 7, 2024 N Commending Friends of Fairfax Station.
164 E Commending Friends of Fairfax Station.
T –––––––––– Patron––Pekarsky R WHEREAS, for 50 years, Friends of Fairfax Station has served the community by maintaining and operating the former Fairfax Station Railroad Museum, which preserves and interprets the regionDs rich history;
N Agreed to by the Senate, March 8, 2024 R O WHEREAS, for 50 years, Friends of Fairfax Station has served the community by maintaining and history;
and WHEREAS, when the Fairfax Station Railroad Depot closed in 1973, it was the last operating U railroad depot in Fairfax County;
ande former Fairfax Station Railroad Museum, which preserves and interprets the region's rich L WHEREAS, when the Fairfax Station Railroad Depot closed in 1973, it was the last operating L railroad depot in Fairfax County;
a group of local citizens worked to preserve the site for useCas a musWHEREAS, led by Lena Wyckoff, a former educator who grew up in a railroading family, and theE Clifton Community Woman's Club, the Friends of Fairfax Station was founded later that year and was supported by Southern Railway, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, the Fairfax County Vocational Education Foundation, and members of the Fried and Moore families;
a group of local citizens worked to preserve the site for use as a E musWHEREAS, led by Lena Wyckoff, a former educator who grew up in a railroading family, and the D Clifton Community Woman's Club, the Friends of Fairfax Station was founded later that year and was supported by Southern Railway, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, the Fairfax County Vocational EduWHEREAS, the Friends of Fairfax Station successfully remodeled and reopened the property at the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum in 1987;
and WHEREAS, the Friends of Fairfax Station successfully remodeled and reopened the property at the FaiWHEREAS, the Fairfax Station area is rich in history related to the Civil War and the railroad industry, and the Friends of Fairfax Station and the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum have fostered a greater appreciation and understanding of that history through engaging programs, displays, and special exhibits;
and industry, and the Friends of Fairfax Station and the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum have fostered a greater appreciation and understanding of that history through engaging programs, displays, and specialR exhibits;
and WHEREAS, the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum is the only non-park site that participates in Rhe learn more about the Civil War;
and 4 National Park Service's Traveling Clara Barton program, which is aimed at helping younger visitors R learn more about the Civil War;
now, therefore, be itm, which is aimed at helping younger visit6rs RESOLVED by the Senate of Virginia, That Friends of Fairfax Station hereby be commended on the occasion of its 50th anniversary;
now, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the Senate of Virginia, That Friends of Fairfax Station hereby be commended on the occRESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Friends of Fairfax Station as an expression of the Senate of Virginia's admiration for the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum's contributions to education and historical preservation in the area.
and, be it RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Friends of Fairfax Station as an expression of the Senate of Virginia's admiration for the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum's contributions to education and historical preservation in the area.
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