Tag: Alexandria VA

We dug up a great old photo of Alexandria from a distance the other day, and found another gem at the Library of Congress. What...

Don't you just love these old Civil War photographs? This one is amazing, and it's even more impressive if you click on it for...

Here is an advertisement from the Washington Times on June 28th, 1913. This is the estate formerly located at 107 South Royal St. 107 South...

What an incredible photograph, dug up at the Library of Congress. This is from May, 1865.

This is the President's official railroad car in 1865, likely taken around January. Four months later, the car would be used as Lincoln's funeral...

This is an incredible stereographic card, taken during the Civil War. It's a powerful image of an Alexandria slave pen. Source: Library of Congress

This is one of those amazing photographs that you can stare at for hours, just wondering who these two boys were. We dug up an...

Here's a page from the Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser from Monday, March 25th, 1907, exactly 96 years ago yesterday (I should have posted...

I love this. You'll love this too, I'm sure. It's a bird's eye view of Alexandria from the water in 1863. Thank you Library of...

We dug up this great old Sanborn fire insurance map of Alexandria from 1912. Take a look at the same area today on Google Maps.

More maps! Below is a great assessment map of Alexandria and Arlington County.

Amazing find on the Library of Congress website. This is a map of Alexandria done by George Washington somewhere around 1749.

This is an incredible stereographic image of the Marshall House in Alexandria. We found this amazing shot at the Library of Congress. ... and the...

If you live in Alexandria or have been there, you have undoubtedly been by this house. This is the Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House on North Washington...

The next time you're cruising around Alexandria, you need to swing by Christ Church. I hate to admit it, but prior to this photograph,...

A great new site launched today and the GoDC community is going to love this one. It's called Bigwig Digs, put together by the...

This is not a joke. A long time ago, there was a perceived oncoming epidemic of invading sharks, hell-bent on destroying humans and their...

Anacostia High School was a brand new school, having opened in 1937. Their second full season of baseball would be the 1939 season and...

Why is Washington, DC the capital? John Adams rode from Philadelphia to DC over an entire week. Read the story of his full journey.

I rarely need to augment these colorized photos with words. It's almost spooky to look at a color photo from almost 90 years ago....

Arlington is the epicenter of recent college graduates working as paralegals, consultants or in information technology. They fill the high-rise apartments or group homes...