William Higham House

Here follows an excerpt from the "Franconia Legacies" newsletter written by Sue Patterson in 2005 and published by the Franconia Museum:

Dorothy Anderson Higham and William Herbert Higham moved to Franconia in the Spring of 1918 in a horse and wagon over dirt roads during a late Spring snow storm from Washington DC. Dorothy, raised in Linden, VA, completed her education in Harrisonburg at Madison College and was hired by Fairfax County to teach at the new Franconia Elementary School. She needed a place to board and Kathy Higham accepted her to stay with their family. William and Dorothy married in 1936 and built their home on a portion of the old farm located on Franconia Road (RFD 6, Box 248), now 6001 Franconia Road where they raised their first son, Herbert Anderson "Andy" Higham, into the world on December 27, 1942 in the "old" Alexandria Hospital on Duke Street.