a.k.a. Town Of Potomac
Early-20th-century streetcar-suburb neighborhood incorporated as the independent Town of Potomac, annexed by Alexandria in 1930. NRHP-listed 1992.
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- National Register of Historic Places
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Joe Ravi ( Shutterstock iStock Dreamstime ) · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 101 Callahan Drive
Neoclassical 333-foot tower completed 1932 by the Masonic fraternity to honor George Washington; one of the largest private memorials in the …
Placeholder illustration of Alexandria Library 1939. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. 717 Queen Street
Alexandria's first free public library, opened on Queen Street in 1937, and site of a sit-in on August 21, 1939 that is among the earliest …
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. …
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 …
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1005 Mount Vernon Avenue 1005 Mount Vernon Avenue
Colonial Revival 1934 high school in Del Ray, the first integrated high school in Alexandria after 1959; now George Washington Middle …
Streetcar-suburb residential neighborhood developed 1908 onward on the western edge of Alexandria, characterized by Colonial Revival and …
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 …
Rudi Riet from Washington, DC, United States · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue
Listening-room music venue on Mount Vernon Avenue, founded in 1966 at an earlier location and relocated in 1997 to the present purpose-built …
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Potomac Town Hall and Firehouse
213 E Windsor Ave
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