7950 TELEGRAPH RD ALEXANDRIA, VA 22315 Get Directions
7950 TELEGRAPH RD ALEXANDRIA, VA 22315 Get Directions
As Lee District has grown, land uses have changed from agricultural, to industrial, to suburban. Similarly, the Gailliot family business has evolved from chicken farm, to sand and gravel quarry, to construction debris landfill, and to golf course. The Gailliot Family has owned the parcel of land (including the property that is the subject to the Applications) located at the intersection of Telegraph Road and Beulah Street since 1917. Henry and Franceska Gailliot, originally from Alsace-Lorraine, France, came from Pittsburgh where he worked in the steel mills. Henry had the ambition of owning his own business, so he brought the family to Virginia where he purchased the farm in Franconia. The original business on the property, from 1917 until the early 1950’s, was all about chickens. After avian flu decimated the flock, the Gailliot family wanted to continue to contribute to the economy of the area as they had for the last 35 years. Utilizing the natural resources of the property, the family went into the sand and gravel business, incorporating as Hilltop Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. in 1954. That business closed in 1982 after the sand and gravel deposits were depleted. The business evolved into an approved reclamation project where the land is reclaimed by filling the quarry with construction and demolition debris. The construction and demolition debris landfill started in 1979.
The Gailliot family started Hilltop Golf Club in 1997 with a driving range next to the landfill. In 2000, 50 acres of the landfill was capped and closed. In 2000 Hilltop received permits from Fairfax County to build a golf course. The result was an award winning 9-hole 2300 yard golf course with holes 3, 4, 5, and 7 on the landfill.
The company has a history of giving back to the community, a practice begun when Clemens Sr. donated funds to Frying Pan Park in Herndon – a place to visit chickens and discover where eggs really come from. The Gailliot family, in the form of Hilltop Sand & Gravel Company, Inc., has continued to donate to Fairfax County parks since that time. Over the past nine years Hilltop has contributed more than $114,000 to their neighborhood recreation center, Lee District Park.
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