Is the Mantua neighborhood in Fairfax County, Va., named after the Italian city?
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And it’s not just developers who neglect to explain themselves. Our ancestors could have saved us a lot of trouble if they had just written down the reasoning behind anything that might puzzle, vex or confuse future generations. Just imagine how much easier it would be ifhad simply written “I really wrote all the plays credited to me” and put it somewhere safe.
Mantua is more present in “Romeo and Juliet” than in “The Taming of the Shrew,” though its main purpose in the teen tragedy is to be a great place to buy poison. But to paraphrase the Bard, “What’s Mantua to Virginia or Virginia to Mantua?”“He was actually prescient,” said, author of a book on Mantua published in 2021 as part of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series.
Eakin was a commercial builder who got into residential development. He realized that as the federal government grew, housing would be at a premium, especially after World War II. He looked to the area around Arlington Boulevard, buying up small pieces of land from farmers.Among the properties Eakin purchased was a farm called Mantua. It gave the entire development — now 1,555 homes, many originally sold under racial covenants — its name.
That house is on the Coan River, near property that was owned in the 19th century by a Chichester relative. Shuman thinks the Fairfax County Chichesters were inspired to nameSo how did Northumberland’s Mantua get that name? Again, we can’t say for sure, but the Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society sent Answer Man an article written in 1952 by, a former FDR appointee, and his wife,These were wealthy, well-traveled people, and Wayne, at least, had been to the original Mantua.
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