In 1974, the Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning published this history of the community of Dranesville, Virginia and one of its historic homes named Dunbarton. The manuscript has two parts. The first covers the community of Dranesville from 1720 through the 20th century. The second covers the history and architecture of Dunbarton (910 Seneca Road), one of the oldest stone houses in Fairfax County, and the people who lived there.

Dr. Charles P. Poland, Jr. was a professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College’s Annandale Campus. He was honored by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia with a 2012 Outstanding Faculty Award. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of Virginia and the American Civil War. He founded the Northern Virginia Community College Civil War Museum. Poland wrote seven books on subjects including the Civil War and the nation’s shift from an agrarian society to an urban society. His books include The Glories of War: Small Battles and Early Heroes of 1861 (2004) and From Frontier to Suburbia, Loudoun County, Virginia; One of America’s Fastest Growing Counties (2005). With his father, Charles Preston Poland, Sr., he wrote A Forgotten Way of Life (2012), which traces the Poland family’s transition from a rural life to a suburban one. Poland, Jr. earned BA and MA degrees from American University and a doctorate from Western Colorado University.