The long axis

Eras

Alexandria from the Northern Neck Proprietary to the present day, broken into eight periods of roughly comparable resolution.

1669–1775 12 places on file
Colonial Era
Northern Neck Proprietary through the eve of Revolution
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1775–1830 30 places on file
Early Republic
Revolutionary War through Jacksonian era
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1830–1861 34 places on file
Antebellum Era
Slavery, commerce, and the road to war
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1861–1865 18 places on file
Civil War and Occupation
Union occupation of Alexandria
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1865–1900 16 places on file
Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow
Freedmen's communities, legal segregation
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1900–1960 27 places on file
Jim Crow Era
Segregation, WWI, WWII, early civil rights
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1960–1990 29 places on file
Mid-Century Transformation
Civil rights, redevelopment, Cold War Alexandria
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1990–present 35 places on file
Modern Alexandria
Waterfront redevelopment, Metro expansion, present day
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