This article picks up where yesterday's article left off. Yesterday, I shared the front page of the New York Tribune's...
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This article picks up where yesterday's article left off. Yesterday, I shared the front page of the New York Tribune's...
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One hundred seventy-two years ago, Zachary Taylor was sworn in as president, the California gold rush was just...
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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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These days, we don't think about our groceries coming from other parts of the U.S. by ship because mostly that doesn't...
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Alexandria, VA, Franklin Street, Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary, King Street, Union Street, Thomas Perry, Henry Baader & Sons, James F. Carlin, Worth Hulfish, J. Robert Baker, J.T. & J.G. Beckham, Globe Mills, W. Clifton Cunningham, Patrick Street, William F. Roat, R.H. Horner, John P. Agnew, Schooner John F. Kranz, Jno. W. Emmert, B. Wheatly, Places, Things
Nothing reflects the story of a town better than its everyday businesses. If you can trace the purchases from those...
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I'm a sucker for a love story with a happy ending. I think I'm a fairly unconventional guy in this and many regards. My...
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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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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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There have been more than 6,000 visits to the OurHistoryMuseum blog since we launched it in December. Collectively, we...
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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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