It's 1838, just after Christmas, the Potomac River was frozen solid, and William Coates sat down to pen a letter to his...
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It's 1838, just after Christmas, the Potomac River was frozen solid, and William Coates sat down to pen a letter to his...
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Let me start by saying there is nothing particularly memorable about this 1841 letter.
Charlotte, of Alexandria, D.C....
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Alexandria, VA, George Washington, Vowell-Smith house, Alexandria, D.C., Robert E. Lee, George French, Fredericksburg, John Vowell, Anne French, William Thornton Alexander, Lucy Alexander, Lee Street, Water Street, Wilkes Street, Francis Smith, John Wellford, William Wright, Jacob Cox, People, Places, Things
The year was 1809, James Madison had been president for just a few months, Alexandria was still part of D.C.,...
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213 years ago, the year was 1807, Thomas Jefferson was president, Alexandria was in D.C., not Virginia, as many as 40...
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Alexandria was George Washington's hometown in many ways. He helped create the town, he helped layout its streets, he...
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This letter almost certainly refers to an escaped enslaved person named Beale. To be entirely frank, I am both deeply...
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Many accounts exist that describe a great fire in Alexandria that consumed dozens of buildings and houses on January...
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Our mission is to save history — its preservation via digitization. We hope to capture images of old postcards, transcribe old letters, and make all photographs available for browsing. Our entire museum is virtual. Our app will be available for download sometime soon. We are producing a prototype, and our first test market will be Alexandria Virginia, our hometown. But this is just a start.
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