Tag: Alexandria VA

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

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...