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South Columbus Street
Late-19th-century Black fraternal lodge, part of Alexandria’s African-American civic infrastructure during Jim Crow. NRHP-listed 2004.
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- National Register of Historic Places
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Windmill Hill Park at sunrise, July 2017 — the open grass meadow that once held Robert Townshend Hooe's c. 1791 grain windmill, with the Old Town row houses of South Union Street rising on the inland side and the playground visible at right. © KingSt.com, July 2017 501 South Union Street
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Mid-19th-century residence of George Lewis Seaton, a free Black master carpenter who served in the Virginia House of Delegates during …
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African-American cemetery established 1885 on land adjacent to Fort Ward, used by descendants of the freedmen's community known as The Fort. …
Wilkes Street Tunnel from the western approach, July 2017 — the brick-arched railroad tunnel cut beneath Wilkes Street in the early 1850s for the Orange & Alexandria Railroad to reach the Potomac wharves, today an Old Town pedestrian and bicycle passage. © KingSt.com, July 2017 Wilkes Street (between South Royal and South Lee)
Brick-arched railroad tunnel carved beneath Wilkes Street in the early 1850s for the Orange & Alexandria Railroad to reach the city's …
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Townhouse associated with Dr. Albert Johnson, a 19th-century African-American physician in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 2004.
APK · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 313 South Alfred Street
One of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States, founded in 1803; present sanctuary erected 1855. NRHP-listed …
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1855 Italianate firehouse at 107 South Alfred Street, home of the Friendship Fire Company — founded 1774, the oldest volunteer fire company …
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Founded in 1863 by formerly enslaved Black congregants; one of the earliest independent Black Baptist churches in the South. NRHP-listed …
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Columbus Street
Named for Christopher Columbus, c. 1796.
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Washington St and Wolfe St
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