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South Fairfax Street
Apothecary operated 1792-1933 by the Stabler and Leadbeater families; designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. NRHP-listed 1982.
- Extant
- National Register of Historic Places
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Nearby in time
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
Six-acre city park at 501 South Union Street, occupying the south Old Town waterfront hill that gave its name first to a c. 1791 wind-driven …
The c. 1741 manor house of on the southern Northern Neck proprietary tract — social anchor of the colonial Fairfax–Washington circle, where …
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 …
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.
Nearby in space
The Burke & Herbert Bank building in Alexandria, Virginia, a city immediately south of Washington, D.C., and once a larger, more thriving river port than the nation's capital city · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · http://www.loc.gov/item/2020724810/ 100 South Fairfax Street
The 1903 neoclassical home of at the corner of King and South Fairfax streets, the bank's sixth and final headquarters after a half-century …
The Ramsay House operating as the Old Ramsay Tavern, c. 1940 — an actual King Street neighborhood bar two years before the 1942 fire that destroyed most of the historic fabric. The 1956 reconstruction you see today is a Williamsburg-styled recreation of this earlier building. "Old Ramsay Tavern," Alexandria, c. 1940 — From Days Gone By, City of Alexandria (fair use) 221 King Street
Small frame house at the northeast corner of King and Fairfax Streets, traditionally held to be the oldest extant house in Alexandria — …
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 …
Market Square and Alexandria City Hall at sunrise, July 2017 — the brick plaza dressed for the Fourth of July with the American flag hung from the central facade. © KingSt.com, July 2017 301 King Street
Alexandria's seat of municipal government, market house, and — for most of the nineteenth century — the lodge hall and museum of , which …
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Fairfax Street
Named for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, c. 1749.
Interpretive signs nearby
The City of Alexandria has installed 10 historical interpretive signs within walking distance of this place. Each link below opens the sign's page on this site, with the full image and trail context.
The Lynching of Benjamin Thomas
300 King St
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
218 King St
221 King St
326 King St
Market Square
207 King St
411 King St
121 N. Fairfax Street
132 King St
311 Cameron St
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