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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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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I have written about the Vowel-Smith house (pictured above) in previous articles. It was part of a group of large...
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Originally called Fairfax Parish, Alexandria Church, or "the church in the woods" because it was on the outskirts of...
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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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Alexandria, VA, George Washington, Mount Vernon, Photograph, Christ Church, Post Card, Carlyle House, Arlington House, Robert E. Lee, James Monroe, St. John's Church, Norfolk & Southern Railroad, Lawrence Washington, Charlottesville, VA, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Natural Bridge, Old Point Comfort, VA, Monitor & Merrimac, St. Paul's Church (Norfolk), Elks National Home, Weyers Cave, Places, Things
Prior to the introduction of the smartphone, I think most of us (over 40) had sent or received one of these at some...
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In 1881, Charles Neale was a senior at the Alexandria Academy, and he apparently was a good student. So much so, in...
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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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