Bren Mar Park

Finally, the story of the Fairfax County Park Authority gets to be told. The FCPA was founded in 1950 with the goal of providing 15 acres of parkland for every 1,000 county residents. Their first big purchase was 15 acres in Great Falls, and in the next couple years the county went on to purchase eight more public parks. However, there was a desire to go more local, so the FCPA initiated a program to help acquire small parks in urban areas. In 1959, it purchased its first neighborhood park, Bren Mar Park, which still exists to this day. Not the most glamorous piece of D.C. area history but, hey, the current namesake for this station, Earl Van Dorn, was a Confederate general whose womanizing led to him getting shot in the head, so you choose what you want to name the station after.