Editing West Falls Church, Virginia (section)

=={{anchor|South Falls Church, Virginia|South Falls Church}}History==
Following the American Civil War, local blacks established prosperous communities in an area then called '''South Falls Church''', along Tinner's Hill and elsewhere.  In 1887, white Falls Church residents successfully gerrymandered heavily black South Falls Church out of the town limits and shrank the area of the town by one third.  It is speculated that the reason for the shrinking of the town limits was a fear of black power to swing local elections.<ref>[http://tinnerhill.org/about/history About Tinner Hill: Civil Rights History.] Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation website. Retrieved 25 October 2015.</ref>  This was never reversed, and caused the boundary of the future City of Falls Church to follow South Washington Street.<ref>Bradley E. Gernand and Nan Netherton, ''Falls Church—A Virginia Village Revisited.'' Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 2000. p. 62, citing unpublished paper by Maurice Terman, "Stepping Stones on the Trail Through Falls Church History."</ref>  The name South Falls Church subsequently fell out of use.

Before 2010, the West Falls Church CDP was officially named Jefferson but that name was rarely used for the area.  As the CDP does not lie to the immediate west of [[Falls Church, Virginia|Falls Church city]], "West Falls Church" is also an uncommon designation for the area and more often refers to the area around [[West Falls Church station]] several miles away in the [[Idylwood, Virginia|Idylwood CDP]].<ref>Roger Wilson. [http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/22141/what-should-west-falls-church-be-called/ "What should ‘West Falls Church’ be called?"] GreaterWashington.org. Retrieved 25 October 2015.</ref>