Sterling
Sterling, Virginia is a census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 Census was 27,822. It is located northwest of Herndon, east of Ashburn, and west of Great Falls, and includes part of Dulles International Airport and the former AOL corporate headquarters. Sterling is also home to the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office (serving the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area), as well as the Sterling Field Support Center, the National Weather Service test, research, and evaluation center for weather instruments.
In the beginning of 1962, large farms made up the 1,762 acres (7.13 km2) of what today is called Sterling Park. Route 7, also known as Leesburg Pike, bordered what used to be Jesse Hughes’s dairy farm. Hughes arrived in Loudoun County in the early 20th century and was a longtime head of the county’s Democrats. Tavenner had purchased land from Albert Shaw Jr., who had inherited it from his father Albert B. Shaw, editor and publisher of the American Review of Reviews. One of Shaw’s spreads, totaling 1,640 acres (6.6 km2), was called “The Experimental Farm”, because he was the first area farmer to receive a U.S. grant for applying “scientific methods”, as Tavenner called them. According to Tavenner, “White Russians”, refugees from the Soviet Union, ran the farm when Shaw stayed in New York City.
Dulles International Airport and the extension of water and sewer lines to the airport began to change the landscape when construction started in 1959.
As selling points, Loudoun’s taxes were less than half of Fairfax’s taxes; Washington was a half-hour away, and the elder Broyhill envisioned commuter trains on the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, which since 1951, had carried only freight. The railroad tracks were the southern boundary of the present Sterling Park.
The original Sterling Park and “Broyhill’s Addition” had one thing in common. Residents had to be of the “Caucasian Race”. No board member or speaker before the board raised an objection to the clause, a common one in the United States throughout the 1960s, even though discriminatory housing was outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1866. No African American family moved into Sterling Park until August 1966, when the illegality of the clause became apparent. By then, the population of “The Park”, as it had come to be known, had reached 5,000
source: wikipedia.org
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$379,000 : 20745 ROYAL PALACE SQ #424, STERLING3 beds, 2 bathsListing provided by Donna Lutkins, Keller Williams Realty Dulles
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$689,000 : 45846 OAK BRANCH LN, STERLING7 beds, 6 bathsListing provided by Omeed Alizada, Green Homes Realty
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$295,000 : 31 CAROLINA CT, STERLING3 beds, 3 bathsListing provided by Dulcida Estrada, Dulce Home Realty Inc.
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$408,000 : 300 AARON CT, STERLING3 beds, 3 bathsListing provided by Dan Thiewes, RE/MAX Premier
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$358,000 : 21724 INDIAN SUMMER TER, STERLING3 beds, 3 bathsListing provided by Tanya Spotts, Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.
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$400,000 : 732 YORK RD, STERLING5 beds, 3 bathsListing provided by Claudia Cornejo, Fairfax Realty of Tysons
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$255,000 : 46580 DRYSDALE TER #202, STERLING2 beds, 2 bathsListing provided by Shashi Goli, Keller Williams Realty
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$444,900 : 46 MCPHERSON CIR, STERLING3 beds, 3 bathsListing provided by Kelly Roth, Pearson Smith Realty, LLC
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$395,000 : 21947 THOMPSON SQ, STERLING3 beds, 4 bathsListing provided by Clark Smith, RE/MAX Premier
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$439,900 : 42629 SMOKEY EMBERS TER, STERLING3 beds, 3 bathsListing provided by Steve Fant, Keller Williams Realty/Lee Beaver & Assoc.
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