Slaves built the chapel that still stands on East Market Street in 1827. It opened in 1829 for a white congregation.
Gen. Nathaniel Banks commanded the Union troops that occupied Alexandria during the Red River Campaign, which was designed to ...
After the American Civil War, newly freed African Americans built their own thriving community called Freedmen’s Town, also ...
John T. Ward, who founded E.E. Ward Moving and Storage in 1881, was also a conductor on the Underground Railroad helping to ...
The world's largest and most lavish private sailing yacht at the time, Sea Cloud was commissioned into WWII service.
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