2605
King Street
Single-family residence on the upper / western stretch of King Street in the corridor annexed from Alexandria County in 1915. Possibly associated by family connection with the Janney-family land near Janney’s Lane, two blocks west — though that link has not been confirmed against primary sources.
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- Old and Historic Alexandria District
Place narrative
2605 King Street sits in the same upper-King block as 2525, both in the historic Middle-Turnpike-now-Leesburg-Pike corridor that runs from Alexandria’s waterfront west to Loudoun County. The whole stretch was outside the city’s original limits until the 1915 annexation absorbed Rosemont and adjacent territory from Alexandria County. [1] OHA — "Janney's invention saved lives of rail yard workers" Article
Janney’s Lane intersects King Street roughly two blocks west of this address. The lane is named for Eli Hamilton Janney (1831-1912), inventor of the modern knuckle railroad coupler — a Confederate veteran and dry-goods clerk whose patent (1868, 1873) made link-and-pin couplings obsolete and saved tens of thousands of rail-yard workers from the maimings that the older system caused. [1] OHA — "Janney's invention saved lives of rail yard workers" Article
Whether 2605 King was a Janney-family property — or simply close enough to the lane to share its naming context — has not been established. The address is held here as a stub pending research at Alexandria Library Special Collections.
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King Street
Named for King George II of Great Britain (reigning 1727-1760), c. 1749.
Sources
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Office of Historic Alexandria, "Out of the Attic — Janney's invention saved lives of rail yard workers," Alexandria Times, 29 June 2017, https://media.alexandriava.gov/docs-archives/historic/info/attic/2017/attic20170629rail.pdf.
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