Chapter VI: Notes

Salona: The House and Outbuildings

[129] National Park Service and Fairfax County Park Authority.

[130] Stated in Works Projects Administration, Writers' Program, _Virginia, a Guide to the Old Dominion_ (Oxford University Press, New York, 1941), p. 525.

[131] Interviews between the author, Jane Wilson Smoot and William Smoot; _Alexandria Gazette_, November 11, 1811.

[132] Interview with Clive and Susan DuVal. January 5, 1979.

[133] Virginia Mutual Assurance Society records, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.

[134] Fairfax County, Virginia, Will Book Q-1, p. 241. Also see appendix.

[135] Interviews with the DuVals and the Smoots.

VII

PRESERVATION BY EASEMENT

Because it was a "wonderfully sound, nice and comfortable, gracious old house" with many pleasant and historical associations and memories, the DuVals felt that Salona should be permanently preserved.[136] In 1971, a permanent historic and scenic easement and a temporary easement were drawn up by the DuVals, and signed on behalf of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors by County Executive George Kelley.[137] (See appendix for full text of the document.)

Both easements were designed to assist the county's efforts to protect and maintain "the scenic, historic, and recreational values of land within the County." It also fitted in with the county government's stated purpose to shape the character, direction and timing of community development through the preservation of open space land. The permanent easement was also given "to protect in perpetuity the mansion known as 'Salona.'" It provides that "The mansion house known as 'Salona' as such structure exists at the date of the execution of this instrument, shall not be razed, demolished, moved or relocated until such action is approved by the Board of County Supervisors acting upon the advice of the Architectural Review Board ... or until such structure becomes uninhabitable or demolished through fire, storm or similar natural calamity."

Provision is also made for the protection of trees and shrubbery and various uses permitted under the permanent easement.

The permanent easement includes the eight acres surrounding the mansion; the temporary easement covers the remaining 44.3 acres.

On November 20, 1974, the deed of easement was amended, providing for the termination of the temporary easement only after January 1, 1990. The amendment was signed by the DuVals and Jean Packard, Chairman acting for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.[138]

Salona was placed on the Virginia Landmarks Register on June 19, 1973,[139] and on the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1973.[140]