Industry
- 1 Wilkes Street
The 1843 stone tide lock at the southern terminus of the Alexandria Canal, which connected the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal at Georgetown with the Alexandria waterfront via a …
- 105 North Union Street
Waterfront munitions plant built in 1918 as the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station; produced torpedoes through World War II, served as federal records storage after the war, and has …
- 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 yard in 1885 and continuously operated …
- 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 children before Virginia's …