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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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11PS_cherrydale_Arlington-VA.html
In 1893 a branch post office at Lee Highway and Pollard Street was named Cherrydale, with reference to Dorsey Donaldson's large cherry orchard in back of the present firehouse. Quincy Street was then known as Cherry Valley Road. Settlement in this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11PQ_stratford-junior-high-school_Arlington-VA.html
On February 2, 1959, Stratford Jr. High became the first racially integrated school in Virginia. The long battle to integrate Virginia's public schools followed the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which held that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2UG_fort-c-f-smith_Arlington-VA.html
Historical SiteDefenses of Washington1861-1865Fort C.F. SmithJust to the north are the remains of Fort C.F. Smith. A lunette built early in 1863 to command the high ground north of Spout Run and protect the flank of the Arlington Line. It had a pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2UF_fort-c-f-smith_Arlington-VA.html
The ramps in front of you, now covered with grass, led to wooden platforms on which the various cannons were placed. When built in 1863, Fort C.F. Smith had platforms for twenty-two artillery pieces and four siege mortars. However, only sixteen ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2UE_fort-c-f-smith_Arlington-VA.html
Fort C.F. Smith was constructed in 1863 on farmland appropriated from William Jewell. The fort was named in honor of Gen. Charles Ferguson Smith, who was instrumental in the Union victory at Fort Donelson, Tennessee in 1862. The fortification was …