People & entities
The merchants, innkeepers, enslavers, freedpeople, congregations, companies, and households that give the corridor's buildings their biographies.
People
Terry Adkins
b. 1953 · d. 2014
Sculptor, conceptual artist, and musician whose interdisciplinary practice — his "recitals" — built large-scale installations around the lives of Black historical figures. …
John Alexander
b. 1711 · d. 1764
Great-grandson of Capt. John Alexander Sr., the immigrant patriarch who in 1669 bought the 6,000-acre Howson tract on which the city of Alexandria was later platted. The John …
Capt. John Alexander Sr.
b. 1625 · d. 1677
Scottish-descended immigrant planter who in November 1669 bought the 6,000-acre Potomac-bluff tract from Capt. Robert Howson for "six thousand pounds of tobacco" — the land …
Edwin L. Arnold Sr.
b. 1929 · d. 2012
United States Marine Corps Lieutenant and Korean War combat veteran; spent thirty-eight-plus years at the U.S. Veterans Administration / Department of Veterans Affairs, including …
Mary Miller Arnold
b. 1938 · d. 2006
United States Senate Doorkeeper Supervisor for twenty-one years and a leader in the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria. Memphis State University alumna, born in Jonesboro, …
Charles E. Beatley Jr.
b. 1916 · d. 2006
Two-term mayor of Alexandria, Virginia (1976–1979 and 1985–1991); namesake of the Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library at 5005 Duke Street on the redeveloped 4800 Duke Street …
Caroline Branham
b. 1764 · d. 1843
Enslaved chambermaid to Martha Washington at 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway; one of the small group of enslaved attendants present at the bedside of George Washington during …
Dame Margaret Brent
b. 1601 · d. 1671
Recusant English-Catholic gentlewoman of the Maryland and Virginia colonies. Her 1654 patent of roughly 700 acres on the west bank of the Potomac was the earliest documented …
Phillips Brooks
b. 1835 · d. 1893
Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts (1891–93), preacher of national reputation, and lyricist of the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (1868). 1859 graduate of the …
John W. Burke
b. 1825
Senior partner who at age 27 joined the twenty-three-year-old Arthur Herbert on August 14, 1852 to open the Burke & Herbert Banking & Exchange Office at the corner of …
Julian Thompson Burke
Son of John W. Burke; brought into the bank in 1877. The first of a continuous line of Burke-family officers spanning five generations at Burke & Herbert Bank.
Anne Fairfax Carlyle
b. 1761 · d. 1778
Second surviving daughter of John Carlyle and Sarah Fairfax Carlyle; married Henry Whiting of Gloucester County, Va., in 1777 and died at seventeen the day her only son Carlyle …
George William Carlyle
b. 1766 · d. 1781
Only surviving son of John Carlyle by his second wife Sybil West Carlyle; inherited 121 North Fairfax Street in 1780 at fourteen and was killed at fifteen at the Battle of Eutaw …
John Carlyle
b. 1720 · d. 1780
Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what …
Rachel Murray Carlyle
b. 1692 · d. 1742
Of the Murrays of Murraythwaite, Dumfriesshire; mother of John Carlyle of Alexandria.
Sarah Fairfax Carlyle
b. 1728 · d. 1761
Second daughter of William Fairfax of Belvoir; in 1748 married John Carlyle, anchoring the Carlyles into the Fairfax network. Her sister Anne Fairfax was the wife of Lawrence …
Sybil West Carlyle
Second wife of John Carlyle; daughter of Hugh and Sybil (Harrison) West. Mother of George William Carlyle, the fifteen-year-old cadet in Lee's Legion killed at the Battle of …
Dr. William Carlyle
b. 1685 · d. 1744
Surgeon of Carlisle, England; father of John Carlyle of Alexandria. Descended from the Limekilns branch of the Carlyles of Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire.
Calvin Coolidge
b. 1872 · d. 1933
30th President of the United States (1923–1929) and a Freemason. On November 1, 1923, before a crowd of roughly 14,000, Coolidge laid the cornerstone of the 101 Callahan Drive on …
Samuel Cooper
b. 1798 · d. 1876
United States Army Adjutant General (1852–1861) who resigned in March 1861 to become Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate States Army; by seniority the highest-ranking …
Samuel Cummings
b. 1927 · d. 1998
American-born, Monaco-based arms dealer who founded International Armament Corporation (Interarms) in 1953 and built its principal operations in Alexandria. At its peak Interarms …
G. W. P. Custis
b. 1781 · d. 1857
Step-grandson of George Washington, raised at Mount Vernon, builder of Arlington House, and father-in-law of Robert E. Lee.
John Dalton
d. 1777
Alexandria merchant; partner of John Carlyle in the firm Carlyle & Dalton from c. 1755 until his death in 1777.
Benjamin Dulany
b. 1752 · d. 1816
Maryland-born merchant and planter with extensive landholdings on both sides of the Potomac, including Shuter's Hill west of Alexandria. His household straddled the social …
Cass Elliot
b. 1941 · d. 1974
Founding member of The Mamas & the Papas. Spent her teenage years in Alexandria in the late 1950s, where her family ran a delicatessen in the Del Ray / Mount Vernon Avenue …
Elmer E. Ellsworth
b. 1837 · d. 1861
Colonel of the 11th New York Infantry ("Fire Zouaves") and a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln, shot dead at the Marshall House inn at King and Pitt Streets in …
Margaret Herbert Fairfax
d. 1858
Eldest daughter of William Herbert (Sr.) and Sarah Carlyle Herbert who in January 1800 married Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax; the surviving British Lords Fairfax of Cameron line descends …
Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax
b. 1762 · d. 1846
Husband of Margaret Herbert Fairfax; grandfather of Charles Snowden Fairfax, 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. The surviving British baronage of Cameron descends from this 1800 …
William Fairfax
b. 1691 · d. 1757
Colonial-era owner and builder of belvoir-plantation (c. 1741); cousin and Virginia agent of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the Proprietor of the Northern Neck. …
Thomas J. Fannon
Founder in 1885 of the Alexandria wood-and-coal yard that became T. J. Fannon & Sons, Alexandria's longest-running family-owned heating-fuel business.
Philip Richard Fendall
b. 1734 · d. 1805
Builder of the 614 Oronoco Street (1785), secretary to George Washington's Potomac Company, and first president of the Bank of Alexandria. Twice a widower, his three marriages …
Gerald Ford
b. 1913 · d. 2006
38th President of the United States (1974–1977). Twenty-three-year Alexandria resident — first in parkfairfax-historic-district 1951–55 as freshman Congressman from Michigan, then …
West Ford
b. 1784 · d. 1863
Man born enslaved on the estate of Bushrod Washington and later freed; a longtime manager at Mount Vernon whose descendants maintain an oral tradition of descent from the …
John Gadsby
b. 1766 · d. 1844
English-born innkeeper who operated the City Tavern and City Hotel in Alexandria from 1796 to 1808 and later ran the National Hotel in Washington. His Alexandria establishment …
Rev. Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin
b. 1869 · d. 1939
Episcopal priest and historic-preservation visionary; "father" of the Colonial Williamsburg restoration. Trained at the 3737 Seminary Road (Class of 1893); convinced …
Benjamin Hallowell
b. 1799 · d. 1877
Quaker educator, scientist, and surveyor who ran a boys' boarding school at 609 Oronoco Street from 1824 onward. Robert E. Lee received his pre–West Point tutoring from …
Arthur Herbert
b. 1829 · d. 1919
Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; …
John Carlyle Herbert
b. 1777 · d. 1846
Eldest grandson of John Carlyle via his mother Sarah Carlyle Herbert and his father William Herbert (Sr.); held 121 North Fairfax Street from 1781 to 1827, the longest single …
Sarah Carlyle Herbert
Eldest daughter of John Carlyle and Sarah Fairfax Carlyle; her marriage to William Herbert (Sr.) carried 121 North Fairfax Street into the Herbert family. Mother of John Carlyle …
William Herbert (Sr.)
Anglo-Irish merchant of Alexandria; husband of Sarah Carlyle Herbert and father of the children who carried 121 North Fairfax Street and the Carlyle name into the Herbert, Norris, …
Hubert N. "Dutch" Hoffman Jr.
b. 1920 · d. 2002
Alexandria real-estate developer who in 1958 bought seventy acres of Eisenhower Valley swamp and trailer-park landfill for two hundred thousand dollars and over the next …
John Hollensbury
Alexandria brickmaker and property owner who in 1830 built the 7-foot-6-inch-wide alley infill known as the 523 Queen Street to block loiterers and wagon-wheel hubs from his …
Herbert Hoover
b. 1874 · d. 1964
31st President of the United States (1929–1933). On May 12, 1932 — during the bicentennial of Washington's birth — Hoover delivered the formal dedication address at the 101 …
Capt. Robert Howson
English ship captain who received the 6,000-acre royal headright patent of 21 October 1669 on the west bank of the Potomac as a reward for transporting 120 settlers to Virginia. …
Harriet Jacobs
b. 1813 · d. 1897
Formerly enslaved author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) who, with her daughter Louisa, worked among formerly enslaved people living in and around Union-occupied …
Tim Johnson
b. 1946 · d. 2024
U.S. Senator from South Dakota (1997–2015); previously U.S. Representative for South Dakota's at-large district (1987–1997). Long-time resident of the Fort Hunt section of …
Marquis de Lafayette
b. 1757 · d. 1834
French general, American Revolutionary War officer, lifelong friend of George Washington, and one of the most celebrated foreign visitors in Alexandria's history. During his …
Anne Carter Lee
b. 1773 · d. 1829
Mother of Robert E. Lee. After her husband's financial ruin and departure for the West Indies, she moved her children to rented quarters in Alexandria, where Robert spent his …
Anne Hill Carter Lee
b. 1773 · d. 1829
Mother of Robert E. Lee; second wife of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III. Rented the Federal-era house at 607 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, raising her children there after …
Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General)
b. 1758 · d. 1815
United States Attorney General (1795-1801) under presidents Washington and Adams; brother of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III and Edmund Jennings Lee. Practiced law in …
Edmund Jennings Lee
b. 1772 · d. 1843
Mayor of Alexandria (1815-1818), lawyer, and youngest brother of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III and Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General). Lived from 1801 in his house at …
G. W. Custis Lee
b. 1832 · d. 1913
Eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee; Confederate major general; later president of Washington and Lee University succeeding his father.
Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III
b. 1756 · d. 1818
Continental Army cavalry officer, ninth governor of Virginia, and father of Robert E. Lee. Sold the Oronoco Street property in 1784 to his cousin Philip Richard Fendall that became …
Mary Anna Custis Lee
b. 1808 · d. 1873
Wife of Robert E. Lee, daughter of G. W. P. Custis, and great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Brought Arlington House and its Mount Vernon-derived collections into the Lee …
Richard Bland Lee
b. 1761 · d. 1827
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia (1789-1795); brother of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III, Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General), and Edmund …
Richard Henry Lee
b. 1732 · d. 1794
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress (June 7, 1776). His daughters Anne and Sally married Charles Lee …
Robert E. Lee
b. 1807 · d. 1870
United States Army officer who spent much of his childhood in Alexandria at the house on Oronoco Street before his West Point appointment, and who later commanded Confederate …
Robert E. Lee Jr.
b. 1843 · d. 1914
Third son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee; Confederate captain. Author of the 1904 memoir *Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee*, an essential primary …
W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee
b. 1837 · d. 1891
Second son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee; Confederate major general of cavalry; later U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Nelly Custis Lewis
b. 1779 · d. 1852
Granddaughter of Martha Washington, raised at Mount Vernon by George and Martha after her father's death. With her husband Lawrence Lewis she built 9000 Richmond Highway on …
John L. Lewis
b. 1880 · d. 1969
President of the United Mine Workers of America (1920-1960) and founding president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Owned the 614 Oronoco Street from 1937 until …
Lawrence Lewis
b. 1767 · d. 1839
Nephew of George Washington and husband of Nelly Custis Lewis. Built 9000 Richmond Highway on land carved from the Mount Vernon estate by Washington as a wedding gift in 1799.
Lloyd "Tony" Lewis
First Black student admitted to any of the Episcopal Church Schools of the Diocese of Virginia, entering St. Stephen's School for Boys in Alexandria in September 1961 — four …
Earl Lloyd
b. 1928 · d. 2015
First African American to play in a National Basketball Association game (October 31, 1950, with the Washington Capitols). Born in Alexandria; graduate of 900 Wythe Street in the …
James M. Marshall
b. 1764 · d. 1848
Federal jurist of the District of Columbia Circuit Court (1801–1803), brother of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, son-in-law of the Revolutionary financier Robert Morris, and …
William Meade
b. 1789 · d. 1862
Second Bishop of Virginia (consecrated 1841; assistant bishop 1829–1841) and the founder of Episcopal High School in Alexandria in 1839 — the first high school in Virginia. A …
Jim Morrison
b. 1943 · d. 1971
Lead vocalist and lyricist of The Doors. Son of a U.S. Navy admiral; attended Alexandria's 1005 Mount Vernon Avenue (then George Washington High School) class of 1961 while his …
Richard Nixon
b. 1913 · d. 1994
37th President of the United States (1969–1974). Lived in Alexandria at 3538 Gunston Road, Apt. T-2 in parkfairfax-historic-district in two stints — 1943–44 during his Office of …
John Pagan
Scottish tobacco merchant who in 1748 co-signed with John Carlyle and William Ramsay the petition that asked the Virginia House of Burgesses to charter the new trading town that …
William Nelson Pendleton
b. 1809 · d. 1883
West Point–trained Episcopal priest who served as the first principal of Episcopal High School in Alexandria from its 1839 opening through 1844, then later as Robert E. Lee's …
William Ramsay
b. 1716 · d. 1785
Scottish-born merchant, one of the original trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and by local tradition the town's first postmaster and first lord mayor. His frame house on King …
Willard Scott
b. 1934 · d. 2021
Television weatherman best known for NBC's *Today* show (1980–2015) and his trademark birthday greetings to centenarians. Born in Alexandria; the original on-air performer of …
Maj. William Silvey
d. 1875
Union Army major and West Point Class of 1849 graduate; held title to Alexandria's Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) 1864-66 after the Federal …
Clarence Simpson
Founding brother of Simpson Masonry (1924) and the construction patriarch of the four-generation Simpson family of Alexandria. Developed Eugene Simpson Field in 1954, named for one …
Donald Simpson Sr.
Second-generation principal of the Simpson family construction firm. Joined the family company — by then renamed Eugene Simpson and Brother Construction — in the 1950s, after a …
J. H. D. Smoot
Founder of the Alexandria lumber business that operated continuously for two hundred years under successive Smoot-family names: J.H.D. Smoot, W.A. Smoot, Smoot Lumber & Coal, …
Lewis Egerton Smoot
Spun off the coal, sand, and gravel arm of the family lumber business into a successful independent firm; namesake of the L. E. Smoot Memorial Library and associated philanthropies …
W. A. Smoot
Successor at the Smoot lumber firm. Renamed the business W. A. Smoot & Co. and expanded into the planing-mill and millwork lines that would supply major Washington public …
Tony Snow
b. 1955 · d. 2008
Journalist, political commentator, and **31st White House Press Secretary** under President George W. Bush (2006–2007). Long-time Alexandria resident across his Washington-area …
Richard Henry Spencer
Maryland Spencer-Hall descendant who in 1880 married Alice Herbert Whiting, a great-granddaughter of Anne Fairfax Carlyle; author of the 1909 and 1910 Carlyle articles in the …
William Howard Taft
b. 1857 · d. 1930
27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930) — the only person to have held both offices — and a Freemason raised in …
The Rev. Edward Tate
Episcopal priest who founded St. Stephen's School for Boys at a single residence on Russell Road in Alexandria in 1944. The school was admitted that same year to the Church …
Harry Truman
b. 1884 · d. 1972
33rd President of the United States (1945–1953) and a Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri — one of the most active Freemasons ever to hold the office. Truman dedicated …
Samuel W. Tucker
b. 1913 · d. 1990
Alexandria-born civil-rights attorney who organized and led the August 21, 1939 sit-in at the segregated 717 Queen Street on Queen Street — one of the earliest documented …
Wernher von Braun
b. 1912 · d. 1977
German-American rocket engineer; technical lead of Nazi Germany's V-2 program and later director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where he led development of the …
George Washington
b. 1732 · d. 1799
Planter, military commander, and first President of the United States. Master of Mount Vernon from 1761 until his death in 1799, and a regular presence in Alexandria, which he …
Martha Washington
b. 1731 · d. 1802
Mistress of 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway from her 1759 marriage to George Washington until her death in 1802, and first First Lady of the United States. Through her dower …
Hugh West
d. 1754
Tobacco planter and operator of the Hunting Creek tobacco warehouse that anchored the commercial settlement around which Alexandria grew. His parcel and John Alexander's were …
Carlyle Fairfax Whiting
b. 1778 · d. 1831
Only son of Anne Fairfax Carlyle (Anne Fairfax Carlyle) and Henry Whiting; inherited the Berkeley County "Limekilns" tract under John Carlyle's 1780 will. Patriarch of …
George William Carlyle Whiting
b. 1809 · d. 1864
Fourth son of Carlyle Fairfax Whiting; his 1838 marriage to Mary Anne De Butts Dulany of Welbourne, Loudoun County, joined the Carlyle-Whiting line into the Dulany family.
Henry Whiting
b. 1748 · d. 1786
Of Gloucester County, Virginia; in 1777 married Anne Fairfax Carlyle (Anne Fairfax Carlyle), second daughter of John Carlyle. Widowed at twenty-nine the day his only son Carlyle …
John Wise
b. 1762 · d. 1815
Alexandria tavern keeper and landowner who built the 1792 City Tavern addition on North Royal Street. Wise leased the property to John Gadsby in 1796 and continued to operate other …
James Wren
b. 1728 · d. 1815
Eighteenth-century vestryman and gentleman-architect of Fairfax County, designer of the three surviving colonial Anglican parish churches in Northern Virginia — including 118 North …
Frank Lloyd Wright
b. 1867 · d. 1959
American architect, founder of the Prairie and Usonian schools. Designed the Pope-Leighey House (1940), now relocated to the 9000 Richmond Highway parcel in Alexandria.
Dr. Harold Yates
b. 1915 · d. 1995
Alexandria pediatrician for roughly four decades from the late 1940s through the 1980s. Front Royal-born; UVA undergrad and 1941 graduate of UVA Medical School; WWII Navy physician …
John Yates
d. 1989
Navy veteran and Alexandria service-station owner. Purchased his first service station in 1964 and the Braddock Road Mobil station in 1977 — the property his sons would later …
Families & communities
The Alexander family
Scottish-descended planter family that bought the Potomac-bluff tract on which the City of Alexandria was later platted. The 1749 Virginia Assembly act establishing the town …
The Androus family
Greek-American Alexandria family with documented mid-twentieth- century-through-present roots in the city. Head-of-family figure in the surfaced public record is Theodore S. …
The Burke and Herbert families
Two Alexandria families joined in 1852 by a single business partnership that became Virginia's oldest continuously operating bank. Five generations of Herberts and multiple …
The Carlyle family
Scottish-descended merchant family that came to Virginia through John Carlyle in 1741, built 121 North Fairfax Street in 1753, and seeded three Alexandria branches: the …
The Fairfax family
English aristocratic family that held the proprietary rights to the Northern Neck of Virginia — including the future Alexandria — through the colonial period. Anchored at …
The Fannon family
Five-generation Alexandria family that has owned T. J. Fannon & Sons on Duke Street since Thomas J. Fannon founded the firm as a wood-and-coal yard in 1885. Among the …
The Fitzhugh family
Federal-era planter family centred on William Fitzhugh of "Chatham" and his Alexandria townhouse at 607 Oronoco Street — the building later occupied by Anne Hill Carter Lee …
Freedmen of the Contrabands Camp
founded 1861
Collective entity representing the several thousand formerly enslaved people who fled to Union-occupied Alexandria during the Civil War, settling in camps at Shuter's Hill, …
The Herbert family
Anglo-Irish merchant family that married into the Carlyles in the late eighteenth century, inherited 121 North Fairfax Street, and produced Arthur Herbert, co-founder of Burke …
The Hoffman family
Three-generation Alexandria real-estate developer family. Patriarch Hubert N. "Dutch" Hoffman Jr. (1920–2002) bought 70 acres of Eisenhower Valley swampland for $200,000 in …
The Lee family
The Alexandria branch of the Lee family of Virginia. Anchored at 614 Oronoco Street and 607 Oronoco Street, its members shaped the city's law, politics, and banking from the …
The Ramsay family
Scottish merchant family that came to Virginia with William Ramsay in the 1740s, built one of Alexandria's earliest surviving houses (221 King Street), and produced one of the …
The Simpson family
Four generations of Alexandria builders. The great-grandfather operated a dairy farm near present-day Beacon Mall; five Simpson brothers founded Simpson Masonry in 1924; the second …
The Smoot family
Multi-generation Alexandria family that owned and operated Smoot Lumber Co. from 1822 until its 2023 closure — one of the longest commercial continuities in the …
The West family
Tobacco-warehouse and ferry family whose 1730s landing at "Hunting Creek Warehouse" on the Potomac was the commercial nucleus around which Alexandria was platted in 1749. …
The Harold Yates family
Two-generation Alexandria pediatric medical family. Patriarch Dr. Harold Yates (1915–1995) ran a long Alexandria pediatric practice from his 1941 UVA Med graduation through the …
The John Yates family
Three-generation Alexandria business family. Patriarch John Yates (Navy veteran; deceased 1989) bought his first service station in 1964 and the Braddock Road Mobil station in …
Businesses
Burke & Herbert Bank
founded 1852
Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the …
T. J. Fannon & Sons
founded 1885
Alexandria heating-fuel firm founded by Thomas J. Fannon in 1885 as a wood-and-coal yard at 1200 Duke Street. Continuously operated by the Fannon family across five generations; …
Interarms
founded 1953· dissolved 1999
Alexandria-based arms dealership founded by Samuel Cummings in 1953, doing business as Interarms. For much of the Cold War the firm held one of the largest private inventories of …
Simpson Masonry
b. 1924
Family-owned Alexandria construction business founded in 1924 by five Simpson brothers, including Clarence Simpson. Renamed Eugene Simpson and Brother Construction by coin flip; …
Smoot Lumber Co.
founded 1822· dissolved 2023
Alexandria lumber and millwork firm founded by J. H. D. Smoot in 1822; operated continuously under successive Smoot-family names for two hundred years until closing its Edsall Road …
Nonprofits
Alexandria Library Association
founded 1937
The private nonprofit operating Alexandria's first free public library, which opened on Queen Street in 1937. The association's segregation policy excluding Black patrons …
Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22
founded 1783
Alexandria's senior Masonic lodge, chartered in 1788 under the Grand Lodge of Virginia with George Washington as its first Worshipful Master. Custodian of the largest private …
AVSOPS.org
Virginia 501(c)(3) (pending) maintaining an open-data public directory of more than fifteen thousand veterans service organizations and patriotic societies across all fifty states. …
Parker-Gray School
founded 1920· dissolved 1965
Alexandria's segregated public school for Black students, named for John Parker and Sarah Gray, two early Black educators in the city. Parker-Gray operated as the city's …
Military units
U.S. Army (Civil War)
founded 1775
The Federal land army that occupied Alexandria from May 24, 1861 through 1865 and constructed the Defenses of Washington, including Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. …
Documented in the trade record
The entries below document principals of the interstate slave trade in antebellum America. They are included because primary sources name them — not as biographical profiles. See the Freedom House Museum page for the full account of the trade conducted from 1315 Duke Street.
John Armfield
b. 1797 · d. 1871
Isaac Franklin
b. 1789 · d. 1846