Franklin and Armfield Slave Office (1315 Duke Street)Isaac Franklin and John Armfield leased this brick building with access to the wharves and docks in 1828 as a holding pen for enslaved people being sh... [click for more]
Freedmen’s CemeteryFederal authorities established a cemetery here for newly freed African Americans during the Civil War. In January 1864, the military governor of Alex... [click for more]
Jones PointAmerican Indians first frequented Jones Point to hunt and fish. The point is likely named for an early English settler. By the 1790s, military install... [click for more]
Mosby’s Midnight RaidCol. John Singleton Mosby formed the 43d Battalion Virginia Cavalry to weaken the armies invading Virginia by harassing their rear. Near midnight on 8... [click for more]
Washington-Rochambeau Route-- Alexandria EncampmentMost of the American and French armies set sail from three ports in Maryland--Annapolis, Baltimore, and Head of Elk--in mid-Sept. 1781 to besiege the ... [click for more]