Tag: Alexandria VA

This photo was posted by the National Archives and labeled as "negro laborers, near coal wharf." This beautiful old photo shows the faces of...

Here's a great photo of the Lord Fairfax House at 607 Cameron Street in Alexandria. By the way, Lord Fairfax was the Baron of...

The sad truth is that slave pens existed in and around all of Washington. This photo shows one of those in Alexandria...

These old Civil War photos of Alexandria are amazing. This one shows the steam frigate Pensacola in 1861, the beginning of the war. Click...

This fascinating old photograph shows Alexandria, as seen from the air, in 1919. Click on the image to see some incredible details. Source: Library of...

Click on the image below to see the larger version and see if you recognize parts of Alexandria from the 1980s. Source: Library of Congress

I love old railroad photos like this. You're looking at a couple photos of the Alexandria railroad roundhouse back during the Civil War. They're...

The sub headline for this article was "Walter Bryant Hurls Beer Bottle and Edward Bryant Uses Pistol." Who do you think won that fight? We...

Can you find these homes today? I did some sleuthing and the best I could come up with was E Walnut St between Little...

Congratulations to the latest #GoDCIWCT poll winner. A well-deserved victory for our most successful Twitter campaigner yet. Those retweets really helped! Okay, on with the...

Check out this old map of Del Ray north of Alexandria from back in 1921. It's amazing to see how undeveloped the area was....

Now this is an interesting old film we found on YouTube. It's a bit long, but if you're from Alexandria, you'll find it entertaining...

This is a powerful Civil War-era photograph. It shows Price, Birch & Co., which was a slave dealing business. Source: Shorpy

Here is a series of cool old photos from Alexandria taken on September 23rd, 1940. Source: Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection  

Remember how nasty the Potomac River was? Yes, it's still not the greatest, but it's swimmable in some parts (as long as...

Here's a cool ad for Hollin Hall, the plantation on Little Hunting Creek (read about it here). Hollin...

I was grabbing a beer with a buddy this evening and we were talking about Hollin Hall, the mid-century modern neighborhood near Alexandria. Here's...

We had no idea, but the alternate, and strongly pushed location for the Central Intelligence Agency's new headquarters was the Winkler Tract in Alexandria,...

Source: Library of Congress Interestingly, we came across this ad for a home being sold on January 2nd, 1900. The home at 219 North Saint...

Now this is a cool old (really old) advertisement from the Daily Evening Star, printed on July 5th, 1854. It's an advertisement for omnibus...

Here is a great old photo we dug up showing the Alexandria Custom House in 1918. Source: Library of Congress