The original Fairfax County Courthouse, built near the present Tysons Corner, likely marked the first European settlement in the Vienna area. Street names such as Old Courthouse Road and Lawyers Road still reflect that origin.

Perhaps the first settler within the present town limits was Colonel Charles Broadwater, a prominent colonial soldier and public servant, who owned much of the land in the region and built his home here in 1754.

In the 1760´s John Hunter, a native of Ayr County in Scotland, married Col. Broadwater's daughter. Partly by marriage and partly by purchase, he succeeded Col. Broadwater as the area's principal landowner. It was John Hunter who built the first house of record within the town in 1767 and called it Ayr Hill after his native land. As the village grew, it assumed the name Ayr Hill, by which it was known for a hundred years.

Large estates were gradually lessened by sale or gifts. However, few houses were built in the village, and for a hundred years after the building of Ayr Hill there were scarcely more than eight houses in the town itself.

Prior to the 1850´s, Moses Cummins, a prosperous northerner, brought to Ayr Hill a plow factory. These plows were the first iron-beamed plows made in the US and were shipped far and wide before the Civil War.

TOWN HALL is located in the center of Town at 127 Center Street, South (Vienna, VA 22180). Center Street intersects Maple Avenue (Rte. 123), Route 123 intersects Route 66 to the southwest of the Town, near Fairfax City. Maple Avenue (Rt. 123) to the northeast of Town intersects Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) near Tysons Corner and Route 495 (Capital Beltway). Note that Route 123 changes name to Chain Bridge Rd. and then to Dolley Madison Blvd. outside the Town limits near Route 7.

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