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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6U_macedonia-baptist-church_Arlington-VA.html
Macedonia Baptist Church was the first African-American church established by residents in the Nauck community. Founded in 1911, the church traces its origins to prayer meetings held in 1908 at the home of Bonder and Amanda Johnson at 22nd Street …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6T_mt-zion-baptist-church_Arlington-VA.html
As soon as the smoking guns of the Civil War were finally silenced, a group of former slaves banded themselves together in what was then known as Freedmen's Village, a government reservation in the area of Arlington National Cemetery, and founded …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6S_harry-w-gray-house_Arlington-VA.html
Harry W. Gray was born into slavery at Arlington House, where he learned to work with brick and stone. He built this two-story red brick townhouse in 1881 on an original ten acre homestead. The design was based on homes he had seen in Washington, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AW1_confederate-outpost_Arlington-VA.html
In August 1861, while U.S. forces were constructing the Arlington line three miles to the east, the Confederates established a fortified outpost on the high ground about 200 yards west of here, to guard the bridge by which the Georgetown - Falls C…
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/HM19KC_granite-acroterion_Arlington-VA.html
This acroterion originally decorated the pediment over the main entrance of the Abbey Mausoleum, which overlooked Arlington National Cemetery. Built in 1926 by the United States Mausoleum Company, the Romanesque-style building featured an impressi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1873_elizabeth-pfohl-campbell_Arlington-VA.html
Campbell Avenue is named in honor of Edmund D. and Elizabeth P. Campbell, whose accomplishments and civic activism set a high standard for all to follow.
Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl was born December 4, 1902, in Clemmons, North Carolina. She recei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1872_edmund-douglas-campbell_Arlington-VA.html
Campbell Avenue is named in honor of Edmund D. and Elizabeth P. Campbell, whose accomplishments and civic activism set a high standard for all to follow.
Edmund Douglas Campbell was born March 12, 1899, in Lexington, Virginia, the son of the de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM183B_maywood_Arlington-VA.html
Railroad and trolley lines stimulated the development of many Arlington neighborhoods in the early 20th century. In 1906 the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway opened a line through this area. From 1909 to 1913 the Conservative Realty Corporatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1836_southern-shreve-cemetery_Arlington-VA.html
Five generations of the Southern, Shreve, and related families are interred in this burial plot. The Shreve family in Arlington dates from the arrival of Samuel Shreve from New Jersey about 1780. Shreve purchased a tract of land near Ballston in 1…