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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5J2_stabler-leadbeater-apothecary_Alexandria-VA.html
Founded in 1792, the Stabler Leadbeater pharmacy operated on this site for 141 years serving many early patriots. The shop is a unique reminder of the period when manufacturing, wholesaling, and dispensing of medicines were combined as a single en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5FK_lloyd-house_Alexandria-VA.html
Built 1797 by John Wise, tavern keeper, and his residence, until 1799. Rental property when sold to Major Jacob Hoffman 1810-1825, included outbuildings, gardens, small sugar refinery. Next owner Elizabeth Thacker Hooe leased house to Benjamin Hal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5FD_the-lyceum_Alexandria-VA.html
Built in 1839 by the Alexandria Lyceum Company under the leadership of Benjamin Hallowell, this building housed the Alexandria Library and was the scene of concerts, meetings, debates and lectures featuring such speakers as John Quincy Adams and C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5FB_the-confederate-statue_Alexandria-VA.html
The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861. The soldier is facing the battlefields to the South whe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5FA_site-of-first-synagogue-of-beth-el-hebrew-congregation_Alexandria-VA.html
On this site stood Beth El Hebrew Congregation's synagogue, the first structure built as Jewish house of worship in the Washington metropolitan area. Founded in 1859, Beth El, the first reform Jewish congregation in the Washington area, is norther…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5F1_lee-fendall-house_Alexandria-VA.html
Built by Philip Richard Fendall in 1785 on land purchased from Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee. Lee was a brilliant cavalry officer in the Revolution, close friend of George Washington, Virginia Assemblyman, member of Congress and Governor of Virgin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EM_washington-rochambeau-route_Alexandria-VA.html
Most of the American and French armies set sail from three ports in Maryland—Annapolis, Baltimore, and Head of Elk—in mid-Sept. 1781 to besiege the British army in Yorktown. The allied supply-wagon traln proceeded overland to Yorktown,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EI_lee-fendall-house_Alexandria-VA.html
"Light Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary War officer, owned this land in 1784. The house was built in 1785 by Phillip Fendall, a Lee relative. Renovated in 1850 in the Greek Revival style, the house remained in the Lee family until 1903. John L. Lew…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EH_home-of-edmund-jennings-lee_Alexandria-VA.html
Eminent lawyer, he lived here until 1837. His son, Cassius Francis Lee until 1865. Edmund Jennings Lee served as Vestryman and Warden of Christ Church, whose Glebe lands he successfully defended from confiscation after the Revolutionary War. Major…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E0_lees-boyhood-home_Alexandria-VA.html
Robert E. Lee left this home that he loves so well to enter West Point. After Appomattox he returned and climbed the wall to see "if the snowballs were in bloom." George Washington dined here when it was the home of William fitzhugh, Lee's kinsman…