Frying Pan Park Cultural Landscape Report Fairfax County, Virginia Frying Pan Farm Park is a group of historic farm sites in Herndon,Virginia, owned and operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA). FCPA preserves and manages the property as a cultural landscape that conveys the dairy and mixed crop farming history and rural lifeways of a community that flourished throughout the Floris,Virginia, region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The property, containing 130 acres of land, sits at the historic Floris community crossroads and includes various historic architectural and landscape features. Frying Pan Farm Park also supports an extensive equestrian program with various built structures and a three-mile crosscountry course that weaves its way through the park. Overall, the park maintains more than 20 acres of fenced land in permanent pasture for livestock, with orchard grass, clover, bluegrass and fescue as the main grasses. FCPA commissioned JMA to prepare a graphically rich and illustrative Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) that will help guide the preservation, conservation, and interpretation of the cultural landscape and its diverse historic resources as well as serve as a basis for public consensus-building, future fund-raising efforts, and Park exhibits. The goal of the CLR is to balance current and future programmatic needs with the needs of resource protection and interpretation, all within the context of the governing General Management Plan/ Conceptual Development Plan and other available ongoing studies.The CLR included treatment and design guidelines for the maintenance and management of the historic resources within the property.
The Ellmore House at Frying Pan Park.
The Ellmore Family.
Residents of Frying Pan Farm Park, 2008.
Proposed treatment plan for Frying Pan Park. John Milner Associates, Inc.