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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DXW_carlyle-house-historic-park_Alexandria-VA.html
Carlyle House Historic Park. . This unique building, constructed of stone and set back from the street, was built by John Carlyle, a British merchant and one of the original founders of Alexandria. Witness to both domestic life and war, today the …
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Confederate Soldiers. . "How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest" Beneath this mound lie the remains of thirty-four Confederate Soldiers Which were disinterred from the Alexandria Soldiers' Cemetery (Federal)…
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Wiliam Clayborne Memorial. . Artist David Hess created this transept of found and cast materials. His design is in recognition of William Clayborne, the colonial surveyor and is based upon the artist's personal research into tools of the surveying…
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The Earliest Inhabitants. . After 10,000 B.C., as glacial ice retreated, small bands of Paleo-Indians moved into the vicinity of what would become Alexandria. Moving frequently within wide areas, these bands hunted game and collected the plant res…
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A World War I Shipyard Transforms Jones Point. From Shoals to Ships. During World War I (1914-1918), the U.S. government targeted Jones Point as the site for a private shipyard, one of 111 built to aid the war effort. The Virginia Shipbuilding Cor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D6E_from-factory-to-housing_Alexandria-VA.html
From Factory to Housing. The History of 515 N. Washington Street. Alexandria's First Cotton Factory. On April 19, 1847, the Mount Vernon Manufacturing Company purchased this lot along North Washington Street. The present building on this site w…
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Battery Cove Filled: A New Shipyard. . Between 1911 and 1912, Battery Cove, the shallow bay extending from the southern edge of Keith's Wharf southward to Jones Point, was [unreadable] for the Civil War Battery Rodgers and was used as a small [unr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D40_the-alexandria-marine-railway_Alexandria-VA.html
The Alexandria Marine Railway Company was founded in 1849 at the site of the former Keith's Wharf. Until the Depression of 1857, the firm refitted and repaired the sailing craft that plied the harbors of Alexandria, Georgetown and Washington. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D3X_the-federal-district-and-alexandria_Alexandria-VA.html
The Federal District and Alexandria. . On January 22, 1791, George Washington appointed Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker to survey the boundaries of the "District of Columbia," to be the home of the Federal government of the United States. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D3O_the-long-story-of-the-jones-point-ropewalk_Alexandria-VA.html
The Long Story of The Jones Point Ropewalk. In 1833, Josiah Davis constructed a narrow, 400-yard-long building where rope was manufactured for ship's rigging, a once-thriving maritime industry for the nearby port of Alexandria. . . [Caption:] .…