In Fairfax County, three miles south of Alexandria on land dedicated to several orchards and farms into the early 1900s — and home to two airfields in the 1950s — Groveton has grown into a racially and economically diverse neighborhood that has experienced a revitalization of sorts due with expansion at Fort Belvoir.
Stephen and I purchased a small ranch-inspired brick home in 2007. Constructed in 1937 — the year Amelia Earhart disappeared and the year the Hindenburg blew up — the house was in