I "found" these and many other unopened purchases in the OurHistoryMuseum collection recently. Many had gone...
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I "found" these and many other unopened purchases in the OurHistoryMuseum collection recently. Many had gone...
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Civil War, Alexandria, VA, George Washington, Mount Vernon, Royal Street, Prince Street, Christ Church, Gadsby's Tavern, George Washington Masonic Memorial, Carlyle House, Friendship Firehouse, King Street, Alexandria Gazette, Newspaper, Robert E. Lee, Parade, Herbert Hoover, John Pollard, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Railroad, Duke Street, Columbus Street, Rembrandt Peal
My hope in posting this 1932 souvenir edition Alexandria Gazette is that you will be transported back 90 years to the...
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Alexandria, Virginia, has the nation's largest birthday celebration for George Washington — and has for a long time....
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I frequently write about George Washington, especially as we get closer to his February 22nd birthday. Articles like...
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Civil War, Alexandria, VA, George Washington, Mount Vernon, Photograph, Potomac River, Majestic Steamship, Col. Elmer Ellsworth, George Mason Hotel, Christ Church, Marshall House, King Street, Slavery, Gibson & Timberman, L'Ouverture Hospital, Waterfront Dining, Beachcombers Restaurant, Mansion House, Arlon Atherton, Susie Caldwell, Shipping, James Jackson, Private Francis Brownell, Franklin & Armfield, Price, Birch and Co., Lee School for girls, Hallowell School, Snowden School, Prince Street School, Alexandria Slave Pen, Freedom House Museum, Constant Austin, Things
There have been more than 60,000 visits to the OurHistoryMuseum blog since we launched nearly a year ago. Collectively,...
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In recent weeks I have been posting a number of items associated with George Washington's Mount Vernon. It's a place...
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You've heard the story before, right? Allegedly, George Washington received a hatchet as a birthday gift, and he...
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I was raised just up the street from Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. My mom was a docent there, I have spoken...
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Alexandria, VA, Mount Vernon, Steamship, Fort Washington, Potomac River, Washington, D.C., Colonial Beach, VA, Fort Hunt, Fort Humphreys, Christ Church, Indian Head, MD, Gunston Hall, Baltimore and Virginia Steamboat Co., Pocahontas, Leonardtown, MD, War of 1812, Kinsale, VA, St. Mary's, MD, Glymont, MD, Port Tobacco, MD, Popes Creek, Yeocomico River, Rappahannock River, Patuxent River, Piankatank River, Places, Things
It may be hard to imagine, but there was a time when people would vacation on the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay.
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It was June 1800, and the country was still very much in mourning after George Washington's death six months before....
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About OHM
OurHistoryMuseum is a crowdsourced and virtual history museum that anyone can contribute to. We are prototyping with our hometown first — Alexandria, Virginia. The app will be available nationally soon. In the meantime, sign up for our blog or follow OHM on social media (both at the bottom of this page) to keep updated.
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About OurHistoryMuseum
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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