Self-guided tours of Old Town Fairfax are available with A Walk Through History, a free brochure available on the city website (click here) and from the Museum and Visitor Center, 10209 Main St.
Group Tours
Guided adult tours for groups of eight people or more at any city historic sites may be reserved for a $25 fee per group.
Guided youth tours for students and scouts are available; please make reservations at least one month in advance. Cost is $3 per child, chaperones free, no charge for schools located within the City of Fairfax. Programs are tailored for different age groups and educational needs, and incorporate hands-on activities. Space and staff scheduling limits apply.
Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center tour information: email, 703-385-8414
Historic Blenheim and the Civil War Interpretive Center tour information: email, 703-591-6728
Ratcliffe-Allison-Pozer House tour information: email, 703-385-8414
Freedom: A History of US — A Traveling Exhibition from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History
Introduction: This traveling exhibition from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History documents and illustrates critical figures and events while tracing the evolving concept of freedom in the United States from the country’s founding through 1968.
This traveling exhibition from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History documents and illustrates critical figures and events while tracing the evolving concept of freedom in the United States from the country’s founding through 1968.
Among the highlights:
a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence
a printed draft and the official copy of the US Constitution
Lincoln’s handwritten notes for speeches
letters by leading figures such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of the more poignant descriptions of the meaning of freedom to the common person are found in the personal letters of Civil War soldiers, which speak to the pain and pride of fighting for national ideals.
Introduction: This traveling exhibition from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History documents and illustrates critical figures and events while tracing the evolving concept of freedom in the United States from the country’s founding through 1968.
This traveling exhibition from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History documents and illustrates critical figures and events while tracing the evolving concept of freedom in the United States from the country’s founding through 1968.
Among the highlights:
a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence
a printed draft and the official copy of the US Constitution
Lincoln’s handwritten notes for speeches
letters by leading figures such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of the more poignant descriptions of the meaning of freedom to the common person are found in the personal letters of Civil War soldiers, which speak to the pain and pride of fighting for national ideals.
