The Forestville Volunteer Fire Department was organized at the Great Falls Grange on May 4, 1942 as an auxiliary of the McLean
Volunteer Fire Department. In October 1955, the name was changed to the Great Falls Volunteer Fire Department. Today, GVFD
is designated as Company 412 by the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department.
The Great Falls Volunteer Fire Department Minutes span the years 1942-2005 and contain minute books, loose minutes, and correspondence.
The collection contains minutes of the general membership meetings of the fire department and the Board of Directors from
May 4, 1942 through April 4, 2005. The majority of these minute books were recorded by Milburn Sanders, the recording secretary
for the fire department.