By design, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial dominates the Alexandria skyline and can be seen from...

When this document was written, the British had just surrendered to America a year and a half before, George Washington...

Last month, I wrote about the George Mason Hotel. It was one of our most popular articles to date and can be read by...

This building still exists at 824 King Street although you might never notice it or recognize it. My office was in the...

In 1881, Charles Neale was a senior at the Alexandria Academy, and he apparently was a good student. So much so, in...

This letter almost certainly refers to an escaped enslaved person named Beale. To be entirely frank, I am both deeply...

Many accounts exist that describe a great fire in Alexandria that consumed dozens of buildings and houses on January...

The Washington Brewery operated from 1890 to 1919 at the corner of 4th & E streets in NE Washington, DC. It was...

Note: I published a follow up article to this one, and it can be found here.The large building at the corner of Prince...

Here is yet another historic Alexandria document from the OurHistoryMuseum collection full of mysteries. This document...