1775–1830
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Early Republic
Revolutionary War through Jacksonian era
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Places featuring this era
Alexandria Market House & City Hall (Masonic Hall), 301 King Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · http://www.loc.gov/item/va1295/ 301 King Street
Alexandria's seat of municipal government, the present 1873 building stands on the footprint of the 1817 City Hall and Market House. …
AgnosticPreachersKid at en.wikipedia · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Old and Historic Alexandria District, the colonial-through-antebellum core of the city, listed on the National Register in 1966.
Abdelrhman 1990 · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 133 North Fairfax Street
Federal-style 1807 banking house, the first chartered bank in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 1973.
413 Prince Street 413 Prince Street
Early-19th-century brick building used as the Bank of Potomac's executive office and as a Virginia governor's residence. NRHP-listed 2025.
Farragutful · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 228 South Pitt Street
Federal-Greek Revival 1817 sanctuary, the second oldest Episcopal congregation in Alexandria after Christ Church. NRHP-listed 1985.
The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia . · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 105 South Fairfax Street
Apothecary operated 1792-1933 by the Stabler and Leadbeater families; designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. NRHP-listed 1982.
Bruce Andersen from Washington, DC · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 1220 Wilkes Street
Sandstone boundary marker placed 1791 to mark the southwest corner of the original District of Columbia diamond. NRHP-listed 1991.
Bruce Andersen from Washington, DC · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 7 Russell Road
Second of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, placed 1791-1792. NRHP-listed 1991.
Bruce Andersen from Washington, DC · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 2952 King Street
Third of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, placed 1791-1792. NRHP-listed 1991.
Bruce Andersen from Washington, DC · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 King Street
Fourth of the original DC southwestern boundary stones; the marker straddles the Alexandria-Arlington line. NRHP-listed 1991.
Bruce Andersen from Washington, DC · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 Fifth of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, near the Arlington line. NRHP-listed 1991.
712 Prince Street 712 Prince Street
Federal-style 1820s townhouse later occupied by mayor and judge Henry Daingerfield's family. NRHP-listed 2019.
Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Five-farm plantation on the Potomac owned by George Washington from 1761 until his death in 1799; home to Washington, his family, and more …
Beyond My Ken · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 118 North Washington Street
Alexandria's Georgian-style Episcopal parish church, consecrated in 1773; pew owners included George Washington and, decades later, the Lee …
Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 321 South Fairfax Street
Brick Presbyterian meeting house begun in 1775; site of the city's memorial services for George Washington on December 29, 1799, four days …
Beyond My Ken · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 134 North Royal Street
An 18th-century tavern complex at 134 North Royal Street that hosted George Washington's final Birthnight Ball in 1799 and served as a …
The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia . · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 614 Oronoco Street
Federal-style house built in 1785 by Philip Richard Fendall on land acquired from the Lee family. Occupied by a rotating cast of Lee family …
614 Wolfe Street 614 Wolfe Street
Two-story brick schoolhouse built 1786 on Wolfe Street. was a founding trustee and bequeathed funds for free education of poor children. …
![Old Loyd [i.e. Lloyd] House, Alexandria, Va.](/images/gtdju7ejdnwoq7p/old_loyd_i_e_lloyd_house_alexandria_va_2rutnb54Yg._hu_952f28a739427277.jpg)
Old Loyd [i.e. Lloyd] House, Alexandria, Va. · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · http://www.loc.gov/item/2016803285/ 220 North Washington Street
Late-Georgian 1797 townhouse at the corner of North Washington and Queen built by merchant John Wise. Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General and …
9000 Richmond Highway 9000 Richmond Highway
Federal-style brick mansion built 1800–1805 by and on a 2,000-acre tract carved from the Mount Vernon estate as their wedding gift from .
1100 Wilkes Street 1100 Wilkes Street
Cluster of twelve adjacent burial grounds stretching across the 1100 block of Wilkes Street, including Methodist Protestant, Presbyterian, …
Farragutful · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 310 South Royal Street
Founded in 1795 as the first Catholic parish in Virginia. Present Greek Revival church on South Royal Street completed 1827; congregation …
APK · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 523 Queen Street
Two-story brick "spite house" 7 feet 6 inches wide, infilling the alley between 521 and 525 Queen Street. Built in 1830 by to block alley …
1200 North Quaker Lane 1200 North Quaker Lane
The first high school in Virginia, founded 1839 by Bishop William Meade of the Episcopal Diocese on a 100-acre campus west of Old Town. …
People of the era
Anne Hill Carter Lee
b. 1773 · d. 1829
Mother of ; second wife of . Rented the Federal-era house at 607 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, raising her children there after her husband's financial collapse and imprisonment.
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 world of …
Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General)
b. 1758 · d. 1815
United States Attorney General (1795-1801) under presidents Washington and Adams; brother of and . Practiced law in Alexandria; married Anne Lee, daughter of Declaration signer .
Edmund Jennings Lee
b. 1772 · d. 1843
Mayor of Alexandria (1815-1818), lawyer, and youngest brother of and . Lived from 1801 in his house at 428 North Washington Street, then bought at auction in 1828.
G. W. P. Custis
b. 1781 · d. 1857
Step-grandson of , raised at Mount Vernon, builder of Arlington House, and father-in-law of .
George William Carlyle
d. 1781
Son of ; inherited in 1780. Killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (September 1781) in the closing campaigns of the Revolutionary War.
Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III
b. 1756 · d. 1818
Continental Army cavalry officer, ninth governor of Virginia, and father of . Sold the Oronoco Street property in 1784 to his cousin that became the .
John Carlyle Herbert
Grandson of via his mother ; inherited in 1781 after the Revolutionary War death of his uncle , and held it until 1827.
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 …
John Hollensbury
Alexandria brickmaker and property owner who in 1830 built the 7-foot-6-inch-wide alley infill known as the to block loiterers and wagon-wheel hubs from his adjoining Queen Street …
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 …
Lawrence Lewis
b. 1767 · d. 1839
Nephew of George Washington and husband of . Built on land carved from the Mount Vernon estate by Washington as a wedding gift in 1799.
The Lee family
The Alexandria branch of the Lee family of Virginia. Anchored at and , its members shaped the city's law, politics, and banking from the 1780s through the Civil War.
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 …
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 on land carved from the Mount …
Philip Richard Fendall
b. 1734 · d. 1805
Builder of the (1785), secretary to George Washington's Potomac Company, and first president of the Bank of Alexandria. Twice a widower, his three marriages produced the dense …
Richard Bland Lee
b. 1761 · d. 1827
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia (1789-1795); brother of , , and .
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 and …
Sarah Carlyle Herbert
Daughter of ; her marriage to William Herbert transferred into the Herbert family, where her grandson was born in 1829.
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 …
