As we add new items to the digital archive, we'll be featuring many of them here, especially new items added to already existing collections. Please also check our Collections page for a full list and breif description of all our digital collections, as well as a list of some collections we are planning to add soon. 

December 2025

• City of Falls Church Comprehensive Plan 2005
• City of Falls Church Comprehensive Plan 1997
• Near the Falls: Two Hundred Years of the Falls Church by Joseph Hodge Alves and Harold Spelman (book 1969) 
• Vertical Files - new collection that will feature miscelleneous items and ephemera from the FCHR's "vertical file" cabinets

November 2025

• Cherry Hill News - new collection with initial posting of newsletters from the Friends of Cherry Hill Foundation dating 1997-2023
• Falls Church Women's History All Stars by the Falls Church WOmen's History Group (book 2024)
• Maps - new collection, initially featuring a Public Utilities platt book with maps from 1906-1968

October 2025

• A Life of Helping Others: The Story of Fran Richardson by Jan Auerbach (book 2009)
• City Annual Reports - new collection with initial posting, from the 1950s-1970s, Annual Reports from the City Manager and/or City Departments highlighting achievements and other information from the fical year
• The Village Way - new collection with initial posting of misscellenous issues, mostly between 2000-2019, of the Village Preservation & Imporvment Society's newsletter

September 2025

• City Budgets - new collection with initial posting of City budgets from 1950s, early 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s

June 2025

• City Master Plans - new collection with initial posting containing the City's 1954-56 and 1978 Master Plans
• H.H. Douglas Oral Histories - added 80 more recordings
• LWV of Falls Church Bulletin - added issues from 1980-2007
• Penman's Palette - new collection of the student literay magazine from George Mason High School published from 1954-1969

May 2025

• City Council Minutes - added minutes from June 1980 - December 2011 (except 2009)
• Civil War Letters - added 113 more letters and documents, including 4 diaries
• H.H. Douglas Oral Histories - added 17 more recordings
• LWV of Falls Church Bulletin - new collection of the LWV of FC newsletter with initial upload of issues from 1969-1979

April 2025

• City Council Minutes - new collection with initial posting of minutes from August 1948 - May 1980
• Civil War Letters - additional posting of 86 more letters

March 2025

• Along the Tracks: Northern Fairfax County's First Electric Railway by Noel G. Harrison (report 1986) 
• Civil War Letters - new collection of Civil War-era letters, documents, and diaries, with an initial sample posting of 10 letters
• H.H. Douglas Oral Histories - new collection of oral history recording from 1965-1982 with an initial sample posting of 18 interviews

February 2025

• Fairfax County, Va., Directory 1906 (book, directory 1906) 
• Report for Cherry Hill Historic House and Farm on the Existence of Enslaved and Free Black Individuals on the Property from 1845-1868 (report 2021)

January 2025

• Cherry Hill Farm (book 1977) 
• Falls Church: A Virginia Village Revisted by Bradley F. Gernand & Nan Netherton (book 2000)
• Falls Church: Places and People by H.H. Douglas (book 1981)
• Falls Church City Schools: A History (book 1999)
• Falls Church Historical News and Notes (book, newsletter 1991)
• Focus on Falls Church - new collection of the City's newsletter with intial posting of issues from 1964-2003
• Historical Commission Symposia - new collection of papers presented during FC HIstorical Commission Symposia held 1994-1998
• Falls Church Public Library 1899-1961: A History (book 1961)