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“Oak Grove” not “Oakgrove”

When the park first became known as Oak Grove it was spelled, correctly, as two words. Sometime in the 1990’s the two words were mistakenly concatenated into one by DPR as “Oakgrove.” Cherrydale Citizen’s Association seeks to have the historically and grammatically correct two word spelling restored.

Historical Background of “Oak Grove” Name

• “Oak Grove,” notable Schutt family home in Cherrydale

Washington Post, September 4, 2015 www.washingtonpost.com/ news/where-we-live/wp/2015/09/04/a-splendid-porch-is-this- arlington-homes-most-distinguishing-feature/?utm_term=.ec1afb29891c

Oak Grove Home

• Turn of the 20th century newspaper clippings

mentioning the Oak Grove home:

• Oldest sign at Oak Grove Park at corner of N. Quincy and 17th St.
• Oak Grove spelled correctly as two words
• Circa 1980s, note “Arlington Co. Park Div,” not modern DPR.

From “Oak Grove Park” to “Oakgrove Park”: Omitting a public “space”

• At some point in the 1990s DPR conflated

“Oak Grove” to “Oakgrove,” perhaps as a typographical error.

• While this one-word spelling is used in the

county’s Public Spaces Master Plan, there is no known record of the Arlington County Board specifically retracting the original “Oak Grove” two-word spelling in place of the one word version.

• Arlington County General Land Use Plans (GLUP) between 1987-2011

all use the “Oak Grove” Spelling:

1987 1990 1996 2004 2011

Other instances of Arlington County Board acknowledged documents with “Oak Grove” spelling:

• Cherrydale Revitalization Plan (1994): (page 4)
• Cherrydale NC Plan (1987): (page 23)
• Cherrydale NC Plan Update (2005): (page 89)

• Cherrydale NC Plan Update (2014), multiple references. Main entry:

(page140)

Survey issued to homeowner at closing noting “Oak Grove Park”:

Current signs at the park.

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