The Thomas R. McCullough Collection, 1772-1875

Access and use

Location of collection:
Fairfax County Public Library
Fairfax County Public Library
City of Fairfax Regional Library
Virginia Room
10360 North Street
Fairfax, VA 22030-2514
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Chris Barbuschak
Phone: (703) 293-2142
Phone: (703) 293-6227 ext. 6 (Virginia Room)
Fax: (703) 293-2155

Summary

Extent:
0.25 linear feet
Creator:
McCullough, Thomas R. (1922-2020)
Abstract:
The Thomas R. McCullough Collection consists of 0.25 linear feet and spans the years 1772-1875, and contains land records, surveys, correspondence, and unidentified photographs.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The Thomas R. McCullough Collection consists of 0.25 linear feet and spans the years 1772-1875, and contains land records, surveys, correspondence, and unidentified photographs. This collection of records pertains to his first wife, Mary Jacqueline McCullough’s family farm in Fairfax Station, Virginia, of which he later inherited. The home on the property was at one time known as “Bathurst” named for original owner John Bathurst Daingerfield.

Biographical / historical:

On July 1, 1772, James Deneal (1728-1806) took out a land grant for 552 acres between Piney Branch and Popes Head Creek in what is today Fairfax Station, Virginia. The property later passed to his son, George DeNeale (1762-1818). In 1856, his daughter Ann Lucretia Stuart (?-1871) sold the land to John Bathurst Daingerfield (1817-1886). Daingerfield later purchased “Rose Hill” in Franconia and sold the property to his friend Thomas D. Addison (1845-1925) in 1875.

Addison named one of his children after Daingerfield, John Daingerfield Addison (1888-1966). Thomas D. Addison made his home on the property which was called “Bathurst” off present-day Fairfax Station Road. Until recently, a concrete gate post at the end of the long driveway up to the farmhouse had “Bathurst” engraved in it. Longtime residents of Fairfax Station recall there being Civil War graffiti on the dining room wall of the house.

The property was inherited by John Daingerfield Addison and his sister, Bland Addison Wilkinson (1889-1986), upon their mother’s passing in December 1938. Bland and her husband Theodore Wilkinson had a child named Mary Jacqueline Wilkinson (1917-1984) who grew up in “Bathurst”. She married Thomas Rougier McCullough (1922-2020) at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia on October 24, 1949.

After John Daingerfield Addison’s passing in 1966, Bland and Mary inherited the remaining 289 acres and had it partitioned. Bland sold 50 acres to Mary in December 1969. After the passing of his wife in 1984, and his mother-in-law in 1986, Thomas R. McCullough became the owner of both Mary’s and Bland’s properties. In 1992, several acres of the property were taken by the Commonwealth for construction of the Fairfax County Parkway, which split up the farm. McCullough sold the remaining 33 acres to Knollwood Baptist Church in 1997. Presently, Daingerfield Way and Smoke Rise Lane run through what was once the family farm. The documents in this collection were found among McCullough’s belongings after he passed away at age 98 in Warminster, Pennsylvania on December 24, 2020.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Penelope Carboni, stepdaughter of Thomas R. McCullough, September 2021.