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...

I love the law (I'm trained as a lawyer), and I love Alexandria, Virginia history (I grew up here, and I live here...

In 1922 the Majestic Steamship would ferry passengers between Washington D.C. and the resort town of Colonial Beach,...

Here's an interesting July 30, 1816 document recording trade between Alexandrians and Native Americans. It appears to...

After Martha Washington's death, Bushrod Washington inherited Mount Vernon from his uncle George Washington and most of...