Historic Cemeteries

Flint Hill Cemetery is believed to be one of the oldest community cemeteries in Fairfax County, with its first documented burial in 1852 when present-day Oakton was called Flint Hill. It is the resting place of many of the area's most prominent Civil War-era civilian and military figures, including twenty-four veterans and four who served in Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers. Buried there are Josiah B. Bowman, who owned Ayr Hill in Vienna and served as one of Union General Lafayette C. Baker's detectives, a forerunner of the Secret Service; Union Private Isaac F. Jenkins; and Union Private Jacob Snowden of Company I, 105th Pennsylvania Infantry. Behind Bowman's grave stands the Lydecker/Freeman family memorial, linked to a family-owned store and residence on Church Street in Vienna that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 and was once one of the Fairfax County polling places where the majority of male residents voted against the Ordinance of Secession on May 23, 1861. Nearby, the Oakton Church of the Brethren and cemetery occupy a site where, at the congregation's first meeting on December 25, 1902, members decided to build the church on the site of a Confederate fort because those who believed it was good to change a place of war into one of peace prevailed; the fort faced Vienna, and its front wall still remains intact behind the church and parking lot.

Oakton, Virginia · United States