Editing Reston, Virginia (section)

===Colonial era===
[[Image:Oldbowmanwinedistill.jpg|thumb|A now abandoned [[Distillation|whiskey distillery]] once operated by the Bowman family]]
In the early days of [[Colonial history of the United States|Colonial America]], the land that is present-day Reston was part of the [[Northern Neck Proprietary]], a vast grant by [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] to [[Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron|Lord Thomas Fairfax]] that extended from the [[Potomac River|Potomac]] to the [[Rappahannock River|Rappahannock]] rivers. The property remained in the Fairfax family until they sold it in 1852.<ref name=":0">"A Brief History of Reston, Virginia," Gulf Reston, January 1970, George Mason Archival Repository Service, retrieved April 2018, http://mars.gmu.edu/handle/1920/1268?show=full {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508190519/http://mars.gmu.edu/handle/1920/1268?show=full |date=May 8, 2018 }}</ref>