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The 10th Annual Women’s History Tour – Saturday, May 18


Honoring Alexandria women’s achievements through history
By Elisabeth Johnson, PhD
ALEXANDRIA, VA- The Alexandria Commission for Women will sponsor its 10th Annual Women’s History Tour on Saturday, May 18. The tour will begin at 10:00 a.m. at the Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, and include a dozen sites in about a one-mile walking tour. The tour will be moderately paced and participants will be encouraged to ask questions. Kristin Lloyd, Acting Director of the Alexandria History Museum, will guide the tour.
The Annual Women’s History Tour was founded by the late Susan Lowell Butler, former chair of the Alexandria Commission for Women as well as the Friends of the Commission for Women. Susan was committed to ensuring that stories of Alexandria’s women, past and present, would not be forgotten.
Each year the commission, in conjunction with the Alexandria History Museum, conducts this walking tour of sites significant to Alexandria women. This year’s tour will commence at the Lyceum, which was the social and cultural zenith of the community in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

