Editing Dunn Loring, Virginia (section)

==History==
[[File:Merrifield Pediatric Dentistry and Avery Hess Realtors.jpg|thumb|left|Office building in Dunn Loring]]
Dunn Loring (archaic "Dunn-Loring"), the earliest platted [[subdivision (land)|subdivision]] in Fairfax County and possibly the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]], was founded in 1886. General [[William McKee Dunn]] and his wife Elizabeth Lanier Dunn purchased about {{convert|600|acre|km2}} located on the [[Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad]], now the [[Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park|Washington and Old Dominion Regional Trail]], from L. B. Clarke and his wife on June 8, 1886. On September 22, 1886, the land was transferred to the Loring Land and Improvement Company, composed of General Dunn, then a retired [[U.S. Army|Army]] [[brigadier general]] and former [[Judge Advocate General's Corps|Judge Advocate General]]; [[George B. Loring]], a former [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]] and Commissioner of Agriculture; and George H. LeFetra, a Washington [[temperance hotel]] proprietor. The Town of Dunn Loring was advertised for residential sales in 1887. The Loring Land and Improvement Company built a [[railroad station]] and a [[post office]], but shortly thereafter General Dunn died, and the development stagnated. During the [[Spanish–American War]], the founding of Camp [[Russell A. Alger]] brought growth and prosperity to Dunn Loring, and among the troops trained at [[Camp Alger]] was the celebrated author-poet [[Carl Sandburg]], after whom the present Sandburg Street was named. In 1912, Fairfax Shield McCandlish bought out the interests of the developers, consolidated parcels, and subdivided the land into its current platting. Following [[World War II]], the area began to develop as part of Metropolitan [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web| title=HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 312| url=https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?061+ful+HJ312+pdf| publisher=Virginia Legislative Information Services| access-date=20 March 2016| date=13 February 2006}}</ref>

Up until the mid-1990s, large portions of the land (mainly between [[U.S. Route 50|Lee Hwy]] and Gallows Rd.) had been horse farms and plantations before becoming gentrified.