National Historic Landmark - Christ Church Alexandria

Completed in 1773, this is a little-altered, continuously used late Georgian brick church. The east wall is highlighted by a 2-tier Palladian window. The interior wooden galleries were added about 1785.

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National Historic Landmark - Alexandria Historic District

From the mid-18th century until the Civil War, Alexandria was the principal seaport and the commercial center of northern Virginia. The District contains significant examples of Colonial and Federal urban architecture. Interspersed among rows of modest houses are more imposing ...

The Capture of Alexandria

Oxon Cove Park

“It was indeed a day and night of horrors, the fleet … lay directly before our house.”

Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815.

From this farm, Mary DeButts saw a small fleet ...

St. Thomas Episcopal of Alexandria

Founded 1723. Stonework Erected 1769. Parish Hall 1993.

Marker is on Sky Manor - Senator Stout Road, on the right when traveling west.

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Alexandria's Oldest Hospital

The Alexandria Sanitarium, founded by six area physicians, was opened January 1, 1903 in a former hotel at Second and Lee streets "to provide for a skillful treatment of medical and surgical cases of any nature." In 1905 the first ...

Alexandria Library

This site, located in the town's center square, was set aside for public use on the original town plat commissioned by Alexander Fulton in 1805. The building was constructed solely for advancement of culture and learning in 1907 by Caldwell ...

Alexandria

Side A

Unnamed during the colonial period, Alexandria's beginnings as the major city in central Louisiana are traced to ca. 1797, when the "seat of justice" for Rapides Post was transferred from the north to the south bank of Red River. ...

Post-Civil War Alexandria

Side A

After having been ravaged by fire during the Civil War, Alexandria was rebuilt and, with the building of railroads after Reconstruction, regained its place as the commercial, financial, medical and transportation center of central Louisiana. By the early 1900s ...

Orange and Alexandria Railroad

Accotink Park Road lies on the right-of-way of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which linked markets in northern and central Virginia. Construction began in March 1850, and the line was extended to Manassas in 1851 and to Gordonsville in March ...

Alexandria Presbyterian Church

Congregation was formed c1752. Original log structure

replaced in 1802. Present Greek Revival Church built in 1843.

Marker is on Mt. Pleasant - Everittstown Road, on the right when traveling south.

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