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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…
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/HM17A4_american-defenders-of-bataan-and-corregidor-inc_Arlington-VA.html
This memorial honors the thousands of American prisoners of war who died on death marches, worked details or perished in transit to slave labor camps in Japan.