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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM123A_wunders-crossroads_Arlington-VA.html
For more than half a century from the mid-1800's the intersection of Lee Highway and Glebe Road was known as Wunders Crossroads after the family whose farm lay just northeast. Dr. Henry S. Wunder and his son George O. Wunder were leading citizens …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM122I_mt-olivet-methodist-church_Arlington-VA.html
This is Arlington's oldest church site in continuous use. Land for a Methodist Protestant Meeting House was conveyed in 1855 by William and Ann Marcey and John B. and Cornetia Brown, for whom Brown's Bend Road (now 16th Street, North) was named. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11Z1_moses-ball-grant_Arlington-VA.html
Moses Ball (1717-1792), the ancestor of generations of prominent Arlingtonians, received a 91-acre grant on this land from Lord Fairfax in 1748. The property remained in the Ball Family until 1818. It is thought that Ball built his home on a rise …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VX_prospect-hill_Arlington-VA.html
The mansion which formerly stood here was built in 1841 by James Roach, a prosperous contractor who supplied most of the brick and stone used in the construction of the Aqueduct Bridge and Alexandria Canal (under construction 1833-1843) and the Al…
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/HM11VU_east-falls-church-station_Arlington-VA.html
In August 1940, when this photograph was taken, passenger service on the Washington & Old Dominion was losing money and was being phased out. Passenger service stopped altogether in April 1941, but resumed two years later to support the national w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VQ_east-falls-church_Arlington-VA.html
In the 1700s, Falls Church began along two Indian trails and included large farms anchored by an Anglican church. Several taverns and inns served as resting spots for travelers on their way to or from Leesburg, Virginia. By the 1840s, Falls Church…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RY_little-falls-road_Arlington-VA.html
Little Falls Road was originally a trail from the Indian villages at the head of Four Mile Run to the Potomac River fisheries just below the Little Falls. Later it was developed as a wagon road from the settlement at the Falls Church to Thomas Lee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RX_cherrydale-masonic-hall_Arlington-VA.html
This two-story brick building was built in 1936 as the Cherrydale Masonic Hall. Designed with retail space on the first floor, the building serves as the home of the Cherrydale Masonic Lodge #42. This lodge is the second oldest Masonic organizatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RW_cherrydale-volunteer-firehouse_Arlington-VA.html
The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire Department was the first fire company in Arlington County. Formed in 1898 and officially established in 1904, it originally consisted of 10 leather buckets, a ladder, and spirited volunteers. A community fundraising e…