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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I5Q_wright-park_Arlington-VA.html
This park is named for Henry Wright, born in 1878 in Lawrence, Kansas, and raised in a Quaker family. Wright's exposure to functional Quaker architecture and his father's position as a local city planner impacted his designs. He studied architectu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19YK_glencarlyn-station_Arlington-VA.html
If you arrived here by train on a summer Sunday afternoon in the 1870s, you would find crowds of people enjoying Arlington's premier amusement park.This wooded spot near the confluence of Lubber Run and Four Mile Run was a natural place for a park…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM182B_lacey-car-barn_Arlington-VA.html
In 1896, the Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Railway began running electric trolleys from Rosslyn to Falls Church on the present routes of Fairfax Drive and I-66. By 1907, the line linked downtown Washington to Ballston, Vienna, and the Town …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM182A_peck-chevrolet_Arlington-VA.html
Bob Peck opened his first Chevrolet dealership in 1939 on Wilson Boulevard in Clarendon. In 1964, he moved the dealership west to Ballston to the very prominent corner of North Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard, 300 feet south of this marker. Taking…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1292_buckingham_Arlington-VA.html
The Buckingham garden apartment complex was built in stages between 1937 and 1983. It represents a pioneering effort to provide rental housing through the use of "garden city" planning principles, mass production techniques and private capital. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM128W_welburn-square_Arlington-VA.html
This park is named for Dr. Williamson Crothers Welburn, 1874-1964, an Arlington physician whose practice began in 1905. Welburn built his office on this site with a pharmacy/post office downstairs and living space above. The front sidewalk was the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125R_mary-carlin-house_Arlington-VA.html
This home incorporates the original log house built about 1800 by William Carlin. It is one of the earliest structures remaining in Arlington. At one time, Carlin had been a tailor in Alexandria whose clients included George Washington. Mr. Carlin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VW_balls-crossroads_Arlington-VA.html
This intersection has been a focal point since about 1740, when two roads were developed, one from the future site to Alexandria to the mouth of Pimmit Run, the other from Awbury's Ferry (at the site of Rosslyn) to the Falls Church. The first came…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGLC_bluemont-junction-ca-1934_Arlington-VA.html
(Trail Side):Bluemont Junction began operation in 1912 as a part of the newly formed Washington & Old Dominion (W&OD) Railway. The station was a busy transfer point for passengers and freight from Alexandria and Georgetown to points west, ending a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGJW_rosslyn-station_Arlington-VA.html
If you were a passenger on the Washington & Old Dominion Railway heading into Georgetown, you would first have to pass through Rosslyn, Virginia, a 15-minute train ride from here. The first Rosslyn Terminal dated from 1906, with the establishme…
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