Woodlawn Stables! Which is a historic farm on land once owned by George Washington and is currently threatened by a poorly conceived road widening proposal! See Save Woodlawn Stables for how you can help by July 9th!

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Woodlawn Stables for sure. Where else can you work closely with animals, develop an impressive skill, get great exercise, enjoy an incredible natural setting replete with foxes and turkeys ... AND know you're riding on land once owned by George Washington! What a way to absorb and live our history!

Woodlawn Stables FTW!

Woodlawn Stables is by far the best. The people and the horses of Woodlawn Stables are living, honoring, and preserving their legacy like no others on the list of nominees.

Woodlawn Stables!!!

Woodlawn Stables.

Woodlawn Stables all the way

Woodlawn Stables. And George would agree!

Woodlawn Stables, hands down!

Vote for Woodlawn Stables! Only a bulldozer can tear it down to create something as ugly and useless as a highway. Vote for Woodlawn Stables! Woodlawn Stables provides: Green Space, beauty for everyone who drives by; physical activity in this day and age when so many adults and children are battling obesity, Woodlawn Stables provides fun, exercise, and physical therapy for hundreds of students in the Northern Va. neighborhoods. Woodlawn Stables also builds life-long skills and a productive occupation. Whereas Woodlawn Stables was built by George Washington and is centuries old, an authentic way of life of hard work is preserved here that gives back to the residents who choose to ride here. Compare this to what? A highway? The planning commission has to work harder until they can preserve history and protect what really matters to this neighborhood.

I was both at student and a riding instructor at Woodlawn Stables in the mid-sixties. Later I was part time manager for Mr. Updike. Still later I was the riding instructor for Woodlawn Pony Club. It is an institution in Fairfax County and serves many riding enthusiasts and horse lovers in that area. It is very important it remain as is!

Woodlawn stables! My mother and myself learned how to ride at this historic stable that is a one of a kind in our area. Without Woodlawn thousands of people would lack a skill that brings responsibitiy, athletics, pleasure and our own history together as one. I want to one day teach my children about the history of Woodlawn stables as well as watch children and adults learn the gift of horse back riding, that would be lost in our local current and future history without it.