1883: Charlotte Haxall Noland is born at Burrland, in Fauquier County, Virginia.
1904:Noland decides on the name Foxcroft during a summer at England's Oxford University in England.
1914: In October, Foxcroft opens its doors to 24 students. Noland becomes known as Miss Charlotte.
1914: Miss Charlotte holds the first Fox/Hound basketball game in November, beginning the School’s oldest and most beloved tradition.
1918: Miss Charlotte becomes sole owner of Foxcroft by buying out co-owner Major Hartley.
1930: Covert is purchased as Miss Charlotte’s home. It burned in 1933 and was rebuilt the next year.
1933: Miss Charlotte receives a gift of 80 cherry trees from the School for Christmas.
1936: The first Foxcroft scholarship fund is established.
1936: Court, the first of the modern dormitories, is completed.
1937: Miss Charlotte gives Foxcroft to its alumnae.
Miss Charlotte institutes military drill.
1947: Applegate and Dillon Dormitories are completed.
General George Marshall and General Cummings review the Foxcroft Corps at Commencement.
1952: Schoolhouse is dedicated, completing the work of the Building and Endowment Fund.
Van Santvoord Merle-Smith becomes the second Head of Foxcroft.
1956: Foxcroft holds a science conference.
Miss Charlotte receives an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia University, recognizing her as one of the foremost educators in the world.
The “new” Orchard Dormitory is completed, replacing “Old Orchard.”
Bertha Adkins becomes the third Head of School, bringing a renewed commitment to the academic life.
1966: The Engelhard Activities Building is completed.
Alexander Uhle succeeds Adkins as the fourth Head of School.
1968: The McConnell Stable and Riding Hall is completed.
Audrey Bruce Currier Library is dedicated.
Coit Johnson becomes the fifth Head of School.
Foxcroft is the first girls’ school to receive a Kenan Grant for faculty professional development.
1979: Richard Wheeler becomes the sixth Head of School.
McClain Jeffrey Moredock becomes the seventh Head. He is followed, briefly, by Dr. Geraldine Pearson in 1988.
Foxcroft celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Mary Louise Leipheimer becomes Foxcroft’s ninth Head of School.
1991: Poet Maya Angelou electrifies her audience as Goodyear Speaker.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, gives her Goodyear address to a standing-room-only crowd in the Engelhard Gymnasium.
2003: Interim Term trip goes to Antarctica.
The first building of the 2003 Campus Master Plan is completed: A maintenance building called “Sally’s Service Center.”
2009: Goodyear Fellow James Baker, III, speak to a capacity crowd in Engelhard.
The $14 million Athletic/Student Center, a significant renovation and expansion of the Engelhard Activities Center, is dedicated.
2010: The first Think Pink basketball tournament to benefit the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation is held.
Foxcroft becomes the first school in Virginia to partner with Purdue University’ EPICS engineering program.
2012: Actress Lisa Kudrow speaks at Commencement.
Foxcroft’s first LEED-certified building, Stuart Hall, opens its doors to 50+ students and three faculty families.
2013: Foxcroft kicks off its Centennial Celebration with a worldwide Day of Service and hosts the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Walk, Run & Pooch Prance for the first time.
Foxcroft celebrates its Centennial with a weekend full of activities.
2014: Catherine Smylie McGehee is installed as the 10th Head of Foxcroft School in a September garden ceremony.
Ruth Bedford ’32 leaves Foxcroft more than $40 million, the largest gift ever bestowed to a girls’ school.
Ellen Stofan, Chief Scientist of NASA, speaks with students.
Dorm Renovation Project is completed with upgrades to Applegate, Dillon, Orchard, and Reynolds.