Tag: Alexandria VA

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...