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Judge Paul E. Brown, photographed at Brimstone Hill, was credited with leading the Burke citizens’ fight to keep the airport “out of their backyard.”

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History Tells How Burke, VA Almost Disappeared

Burke, Virginia, now an 11.5 square mile unincorporated section of Fairfax County with a population of roughly 41,000, was fated to disappear in 1951.

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