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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IN_friendship-firehouse_Alexandria-VA.html
In an 18th century town of mostly wooden buildings, where open flames provided heat, light and cooking on a daily basis, Alexandrians constantly faced the danger of fire. Water to fight fires had to be carried in buckets from nearby wells, town pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IM_george-washington-in-alexandria_Alexandria-VA.html
George Washington considered Alexandria his hometown after its founding in 1749, and it is here that he came to do business, learn the events of the world, pick up mail, and visit friends. His first association with the town was probably as a 17 y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IL_the-alexandria-lyceum_Alexandria-VA.html
One block south is The Alexandria Lyceum, formed as a public education organization in 1834 by Quaker schoolmaster Benjamin Hallowell and other civic leaders. In 1839, the founders joined with the Alexandria Library Company to construct a magnific…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26II_retail-in-alexandria_Alexandria-VA.html
The 500 block of King Street has long been associated with retail trade in Alexandria. In the late 18th century, Adam Lynn, Sr. owned the quarter-block at this corner of King and St. Asaph Streets, where he operated a small bake shop selling biscu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IH_marshall-house_Alexandria-VA.html
In the early morning hours of May 24, 1861, the day after a public referendum in Virginia supported secession from the United States, Alexandria was invaded by Union forces crossing the Potomac. Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, the young commander of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IE_edgar-warfield_Alexandria-VA.html
One of King Street's greatest commercial buildings was built by one of Alexandria's most beloved citizens. Edgar Warfield, Jr. was born in 1842, and at the age of 18 he co-founded the "Old Dominion Rifles," a Confederate militia that served in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26I3_colonel-francis-peyton_Alexandria-VA.html
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this land was part of a larger parcel owned by Colonel Francis Peyton and the land was later inherited by his son, Lucien. In 1851, Lucien Peyton sold this property, depicted on the 1845 map of Alexandria…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26H5_alexandria-and-fredericksburg-railroad_Alexandria-VA.html
The rails embedded in the brick sidewalk along this block of Fayette Street come from the Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railroad. Chartered in 1864 and completed to Quantico by 1872, this rail line ran in the street and spurred industrial growth i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26GX_the-rail-yard-hump_Alexandria-VA.html
Certain rail classification yards depended on a simple landform called the "hump." Potomac Yard had two humps: one for the northbound trains and one for the southbound trains. Trains first entered a receiving yard where locomotives were detached f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26GW_crossroads-of-transportation_Alexandria-VA.html
The Potomac Yard site has historically been an intersection for transportation because of its location between Washington D.C. and Alexandria and the availability of open, level land near the river. Even before Potomac Yard was built, the property…