An experimental digital history archive that is an attempt at documenting the
transformation and history of Northern Virginia in the past fifty years. This latest version has been created
and designed by Charlie Evans.
This is Rippon Lodge. It was built in 1747 by Richard Blackburn. It is the oldest house that still stands in Virginia. The house was named after Blackburn's place of birth in England, Ripon City. Much of Rippon Lodge's land has been dissolved into…