1865–1900
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Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow
Freedmen's communities, legal segregation
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Places featuring this era
Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. · via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain South Washington Street and Prince Street
Confederate monument cast 1889 by Caspar Buberl, relocated from the intersection of Washington and Prince streets on June 2, 2020. …
320 South Washington Street 320 South Washington Street
Founded in 1863 by formerly enslaved Black congregants; one of the earliest independent Black Baptist churches in the South. NRHP-listed …
1001 South Washington Street 1001 South Washington Street
Burial ground established in 1864 for African Americans who fled slavery to Union-occupied Alexandria; rediscovered in 1987. NRHP-listed …
814 Duke Street 814 Duke Street
Townhouse associated with Dr. Albert Johnson, a 19th-century African-American physician in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 2004.
Ser Amantio di Nicolao · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 2823 King Street
Garden cemetery established 1856 on the western edge of Alexandria; among its interments are several mayors and Confederate veterans. …
4195 West Braddock Road 4195 West Braddock Road
African-American cemetery established 1885 on land adjacent to Fort Ward, used by descendants of the freedmen's community known as The Fort. …
411 South Columbus Street 411 South Columbus Street
Late-19th-century Black fraternal lodge, part of Alexandria's African-American civic infrastructure during Jim Crow. NRHP-listed 2004.
AgnosticPreachersKid at en.wikipedia · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 201 Prince Street
Late-19th-century commercial building at the corner of Prince and Lee streets, an early local example of small-town bank architecture. …
404 South Royal Street 404 South Royal Street
Mid-19th-century residence of George Lewis Seaton, a free Black master carpenter who served in the Virginia House of Delegates during …
Parker-Gray neighborhood Parker-Gray neighborhood
Historically African-American residential and commercial district north and west of Old Town, anchored by the Parker-Gray School. …
1100 Wilkes Street 1100 Wilkes Street
Cluster of twelve adjacent burial grounds stretching across the 1100 block of Wilkes Street, including Methodist Protestant, Presbyterian, …
Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road)
Layered Seminary Hill site that was the country estate "Muckross" of Burke & Herbert Bank co-founder Arthur Herbert, the Civil War earthwork …
1200 Duke Street 1200 Duke Street
Headquarters of T. J. Fannon & Sons at 1200 Duke Street, the Alexandria heating-fuel firm founded by Thomas J. Fannon as a wood-and-coal …
photographer not credited · via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain 300 North West Street
Glass bottle and jar works that operated in west-end Alexandria from the 1890s until the Depression, employing hundreds of workers including …
People of the era
Julian Thompson Burke
Son of ; brought into the bank in 1877. The first of a continuous line of Burke-family officers spanning five generations at .
Thomas J. Fannon
Founder in 1885 of the Alexandria wood-and-coal yard that became , Alexandria's longest-running family-owned heating-fuel business.
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 …