 Next to it is a sign placed by the Civil War Trails Program in 2014 and detailing the Civil War-era history of the church and grounds.Also at the site is a marker detailing the history of the old telegraph line, one of the first in the world, which ran nearby and which is today memorialized in the name of Telegraph Road.The church is the centerpiece of a historic overlay district established by Fairfax County in 1970; it was the first such district designated by the county.