Office of Historic Alexandria
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Events Calendar
Zvents October 2019
October 11-13 Fall Wine Festival & Sunset Tour 6:00 pm-9:00 pm George Washington’s Mount Vernon 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial…
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ALEXANDRIA HISTORY: How Jones Point Was Almost an Amusement Park
ALEXANDRIA, VA – On September 19, 1953, the federal government approved the transfer of lands at Jones Point to Alexandria…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
Let Loose: Have Fun in Alexandria This Weekend
Alexandria, VA – Usually around this time of year, there is a coolness to the air that signals the coming…
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Sips & Secrets: A Speakeasy Night
By Megan Ritter ALEXANDRIA,VA- Get your flapper dresses and fedoras ready and brush up on your Charleston steps! It’s…
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Public Safety
Photos: Alexandria’s Friendship Firehouse Festival
Alexandria, VA – If you or your kids love firetrucks, the Friendship Firehouse Festival was something else! In fact, the…
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Arts
On Exhibit: Powerful Portraits of African American Living Legends of Alexandria
ALEXANDRIA, VA – This spring and summer the Alexandria Black History Museum has hosted an important exhibit of the African…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
GMU Professor to Lecture at the Alexandria History Museum
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Alexandria Historical Society and the Office of Historic Alexandria are pleased to announce a lecture by…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
Alexandria to Honor Lynching Victims by Claiming National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Steel pillar monument honors Alexandria victims Joseph McCoy and Benjamin Thompson. By James Cullum Alexandria’s past is imperfect, but…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
Alexandria to Honor Lynching Victims by Claiming National Memorial for Peace and Justice Monument
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Alexandria’s past is imperfect, but embracing that fact gives the city its strength. On Tuesday, the Alexandria…
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THIS WEEK IN ALEXANDRIA HISTORY: CITY COUNCIL REGULATES SIGNAGE, Jan. 29, 1947
ALEXANDRIA, VA – On January 29, 1947, just a year after establishing America’s third regulated historic district in what would…
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