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Alexandria History Index:
Places, Events & Topics

The Alexandria history index gathers every place, event and subject in Alexandria, Virginia history that ties the people in the city’s historic burial grounds to the wider world, from Gadsby’s Tavern and the Lee-Fendall House to the Boston Tea Party, the yellow fever of 1803, Hawaii and the Little Bighorn. Each entry names the people connected to it and links to every page on Gravestone Stories that tells that part of the story.

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  • 106th Regiment, Virginia MilitiaPeople: Lawrence Hooff Jr.; George Wise
  • 10th New York Volunteer Infantry (National Zouaves)People: Edward R. French
  • 111 Prince Street (Captain’s Row)People: Thomas Vowell; John C. Vowell
  • 1123 Duke StreetPeople: Judge Thomson Francis Mason
  • 113th Ohio InfantryPeople: Nehemiah Metlock
  • 11th New York Volunteer Infantry (Fire Zouaves)People: Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth; Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth; Pvt. Francis E. Brownell; Joseph H. Young
  • 11th Wisconsin Volunteer InfantryPeople: Willard Purdy Graves
  • 122nd Ohio Volunteer InfantryPeople: Private James Luman; Robert Marshman
  • 124 South Fairfax StreetPeople: James Wilson
  • 125th New York InfantryPeople: Private James Mullen
  • 126th Ohio InfantryPeople: Martin Swick
  • 12th Regiment of Maryland Militia
  • 12th Virginia InfantryPeople: Franklin Longden Brockett
  • 140th Pennsylvania VolunteersPeople: Private Solomon Williams
  • 14th New York Heavy ArtilleryPeople: Private Martin Schirm; Private Charles Lassell
  • 15th New York Heavy ArtilleryPeople: Leo Kuchns; Ferdinand Wetterer; Charles Reissner; Franz Lutz; John Jones; August Friedrichs; Charles Wendt; John Dillman; Frederick Kuntze; Charles Schield; Paul Biewald; Jacob Kuhn and 11 more
  • 15th Virginia CavalryPeople: Thomas M. Fairfax
  • 16th Connecticut Infantry
  • 16th New York Cavalry
  • 175th Virginia MilitiaPeople: Colonel Charles Edward Stuart; Colonel Edward Stuart
  • 17th Virginia InfantryPeople: Montgomery Dent Corse; Thomas M. Fairfax; Robert Knox; Edgar Warfield Sr.; Dr. Magnus M. Lewis; Frederick John Paff; Dr. Robert Conrad Powell; Andrew Fletcher Skidmore; Captain James Montgomery Stuart; Charles Henry McKnight; William Presley McKnight; James M. Steuart
  • 18th Virginia Heavy ArtilleryPeople: George Duffey
  • 1st Alabama Cavalry (Union)People: William L. Phillips
  • 1st Battalion, Lancaster County Pennsylvania AssociatorsPeople: LTC Philip Marsteller
  • 1st Massachusetts CavalryPeople: Charles W. Needham
  • 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Monument (Aldie)People: Charles W. Needham
  • 1st Ohio CavalryPeople: John H. Thompson
  • 1st Regiment, District of Columbia MilitiaPeople: Robert Allison, Jr.; Samuel Bowen; Robert Abercrombie; General Robert Young; John C. Vowell; Hugh Smith
  • 1st U.S. ArtilleryPeople: General Thomas Childs
  • 1st Virginia Cavalry (Union)
  • 207 King Street (Bartleman house)People: William Bartleman; William Gregory
  • 20th Battalion Virginia ArtilleryPeople: Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • 20th Maine at Little Round Top
  • 219 South Alfred StreetPeople: William Eaches “Willie” Fendall; Elizabeth Twiggs “Lily” Myers
  • 22nd Massachusetts InfantryPeople: Pvt. Reuben Rowell
  • 23rd United States Colored InfantryPeople: Shadrach Murphy
  • 23rd Virginia InfantryPeople: John Newton Harper
  • 27th United States Colored InfantryPeople: John Cooley
  • 28th United States Colored InfantryPeople: Adolphus Jacobs
  • 2nd Connecticut Heavy ArtilleryPeople: Lewis Bissell; Frederick A. Olroyd; Watson Parmalee
  • 2nd Virginia Regiment (Continental Army)People: Colonel Charles Simms Sr.; John Pipsico; John Turpin Brooks
  • 312 Queen StreetPeople: Robert Young
  • 31st Maine InfantryPeople: Private Joseph P. Grant
  • 31st United States Colored InfantryPeople: Tobias Trout
  • 34th U.S. InfantryPeople: Josiah Hewes Davis
  • 38th Battalion, Virginia Light ArtilleryPeople: Heath John Brent
  • 39th New York Infantry
  • 3rd Michigan InfantryPeople: Private Samuel McMurray
  • 3rd New York Battalion of Heavy ArtilleryPeople: Leo Kuchns; Ferdinand Wetterer; Charles Reissner; Franz Lutz; John Jones; August Friedrichs; Charles Wendt; John Dillman; Frederick Kuntze; Charles Schield; Paul Biewald; Jacob Kuhn and 11 more
  • 3rd New York Heavy ArtilleryPeople: Private Ferdinand Wetterer; Lieutenant Leo Kuchns; Corporal Gottleib Messinger; Private John Eckert
  • 3rd Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry (32nd Pennsylvania Volunteers)People: Isaac E. Lewis
  • 3rd Regiment, First Brigade, Volunteer InfantryPeople: Francis Lee Smith, Jr.
  • 3rd Virginia InfantryPeople: George W. Rock
  • 3rd Virginia Regiment (Continental Army)People: John Pipsico; Francis Ignatius Hagan; Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • 444th Bomb GroupPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • 44th New York Infantry (Ellsworth’s Avengers)
  • 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  • 4th Vermont InfantryPeople: William H. H. Marsh
  • 4th Virginia CavalryPeople: Frank Stringfellow; Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
  • 501 Cameron StreetPeople: Thomson Francis Mason
  • 515 Duke StreetPeople: Margaret Robinson
  • 54th Massachusetts InfantryPeople: Alfred Whiting
  • 5th Massachusetts Colored CavalryPeople: Paul Jennings
  • 5th Michigan InfantryPeople: Private Samuel McMurray
  • 607 Cameron StreetPeople: William Yeaton
  • 60th Regiment, Virginia MilitiaPeople: Dr. William Harper
  • 611 Cameron StreetPeople: John Bogue; Judith Bogue
  • 61st Georgia InfantryPeople: Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • 6th Virginia CavalryPeople: Samuel Richard Johnston
  • 76th New York InfantryPeople: Private Alton Hawkes
  • 7th CavalryPeople: Dr. Holmes Offley Paulding
  • 7th Georgia BattalionPeople: Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • 7th Maryland Volunteer InfantryPeople: George Parks; Theodore Hyder; Joshua Lightner; Benjamin Lightner
  • 7th Regiment, Maryland LinePeople: Lawrence Hurdle
  • 806 Prince Street (Robert E. Lee Camp Hall Museum)People: Rev. James T. Johnston; Jane Sanford Johnston
  • 8th Virginia RegimentPeople: John Sloan
  • 9th Illinois InfantryPeople: James Inglish Ferree

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  • AbolitionismPeople: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel; Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson; Joseph Bruin
  • Acca Temple (Shriners)People: Emanuel Ethelbert Downham
  • Accession of George I (1714)
  • Adam grist mill on Four Mile RunPeople: Robert Adam
  • Adventure (brig)People: Lawrence Sanford; John McKnight
  • African American burial associations
  • African American burial grounds
  • African American burial traditions
  • African American civic leadership after the Civil WarPeople: George Lewis Seaton
  • African American education in AlexandriaPeople: Laura Missouri Dorsey; George Lewis Seaton
  • African American historyPeople: Gladys Quander Tancil; Caroline Branham; Mary & Emily Edmonson; Paul Jennings; Shadrach Murphy; Laura Missouri Dorsey; George Lewis Seaton; Julius Campbell; Joseph McCoy; Benjamin Thomas; Joseph Harris; John Pipsico and 3 more
  • Africatown (Mobile, Alabama)
  • Agnew House (308 South Pitt Street)People: Park Agnew
  • Agricultural depression of the 1790sPeople: Philip Richard Fendall
  • Agudas Achim Cemetery
  • Agudas Achim Congregation
  • AlaskaPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Alaska Aviation Heritage MuseumPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Aldie, Battle of (1863)People: Charles W. Needham; Sydney Smith Lee
  • Alexandria & Fredericksburg RailwayPeople: Robert Rollins Fowle
  • Alexandria Abolition SocietyPeople: James Douglass
  • Alexandria AcademyPeople: William Hartshorne; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Edmund Jennings Lee I; William Ramsay; Colonel Charles Simms Sr.; Dr. Henry Rose; Rev. James Muir
  • Alexandria Academy (Washington Free School)People: Dr. Henry Rose
  • Alexandria African American Heritage Park
  • Alexandria Agricultural SocietyPeople: Edward L. Daingerfield
  • Alexandria and Fairfax Committees of SafetyPeople: Robert Adam
  • Alexandria and Leesburg Turnpike CompanyPeople: Robert Conway
  • Alexandria Archaeology
  • Alexandria Archaeology Commission
  • Alexandria ArtilleryPeople: Captain William Harper; Capt. John Harper; Dr. James Carson; George Duffey
  • Alexandria becomes part of the District of Columbia (1801)
  • Alexandria Bible Church
  • Alexandria Blue Boy stampPeople: James Hooff
  • Alexandria Board of AldermenPeople: E.E. Downham
  • Alexandria CanalPeople: Hugh Smith; Millie Bailey; Dr. James Carson; Joseph Eaches
  • Alexandria Canal tide locks
  • Alexandria cavalryPeople: Robert Young
  • Alexandria Centennial parade (1880)People: George Duffey
  • Alexandria Chamber of CommercePeople: John Johnson Jr.; John Carlyle
  • Alexandria chartered as a city (1852)
  • Alexandria City HallPeople: George W. Petty
  • Alexandria City Public SchoolsPeople: Kosciusko Kemper
  • Alexandria Colonization SocietyPeople: Robert B. Jamieson
  • Alexandria Court of Common PleasPeople: Thomson Francis Mason
  • Alexandria DispensaryPeople: Dr. Henry Rose
  • Alexandria DragoonsPeople: Samuel Popham Thompson
  • Alexandria Fire DepartmentPeople: George W. Petty; Joseph H. Young; Edgar Warfield; George Whalen; James W. Keene
  • Alexandria fire of 1896People: George W. Petty
  • Alexandria Fire Station No. 1
  • Alexandria Firefighters Memorial ServicePeople: George O. Plain; Charles Glasscock; William Evans; Robert I. Taylor; James W. Keene; J. Carson Greene; George Whalen
  • Alexandria Free SchoolPeople: Robert W. Bell
  • Alexandria Gas Light CompanyPeople: William Gardner Cazenove
  • Alexandria Gas WorksPeople: Robert B. Jamieson
  • Alexandria GazettePeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Edgar Snowden, Sr.; Edgar Snowden Jr.; Harry Edward Poss; James Herrell Rollins Jr.; John Lee Rollins; William Presley McKnight; John McKnight; Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel; William Francis Carne
  • Alexandria Historical Society
  • Alexandria Historical Society digital museum
  • Alexandria Home GuardPeople: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Alexandria HospitalPeople: George W. Petty; Edward L. Daingerfield; George Whalen
  • Alexandria in the District of Columbia (1801–1847)People: Jonah Thompson
  • Alexandria Independent BluesPeople: Major Henry Piercy; Captain Charles McKnight; William Gregory; Samuel Bowen; William Gregory III; Andrew Fleming; Robert Allison, Jr.; James Fleming; William Ramsay Jr.; William Bartleman
  • Alexandria Independent Company
  • Alexandria Iron Foundry
  • Alexandria Library CompanyPeople: Robert Young; William Newton; William Hodgson; John C. Vowell; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Samuel Craig; Daniel Douglass; Dr. James Kennedy; Colonel Philip Marsteller; Lieutenant Colonel Philip B. Marsteller; Robert Allison, Sr.; Colonel George Gilpin and 12 more
  • Alexandria Light Artillery (Kemper’s Battery)People: Capt. Delaware Kemper; Robert Rollins Fowle
  • Alexandria Light InfantryPeople: Francis Lee Smith, Jr.
  • Alexandria Literary Society
  • Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire RailroadPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • Alexandria Marine Railway and Ship Building Co.People: Park Agnew
  • Alexandria militiaPeople: Colin McIver; Robert Young
  • Alexandria militia (War of 1812)People: Adam Lynn
  • Alexandria National CemeteryPeople: Charles W. Needham; Martin Swick; Shadrack Murphy; John Cooley; Adolphus Jacobs; Alfred Whiting; Peter Carroll; Christopher Farley; Tobias Trout; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Pvt. Reuben Rowell and 53 more
  • Alexandria Oral History Center
  • Alexandria Poorhouse (Alms House)People: Washington Blunt; John Adam (1781-1843); John Longden; Jonathan Swift; Thomas Jacobs; Dr. Henry Rose
  • Alexandria post officePeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove; William Ramsay; Nicholas Trist
  • Alexandria Savings InstitutionPeople: Major Robert Brockett
  • Alexandria shipbuildingPeople: John Park Agnew
  • Alexandria Silver GraysPeople: Philip Gotthelp Marsteller
  • Alexandria street act (1785)
  • Alexandria Times and District of Columbia Daily AdvertiserPeople: John Westcott
  • Alexandria tornado (1927)People: Jonathan Swift
  • Alexandria Water CompanyPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Alexandria Widow’s Home and Orphan Asylum for BoysPeople: Robert B. Jamieson; Robert W. Bell; Thomas Jacobs
  • Alexandrian hotel (Pitt and King), ThePeople: Robert Downham
  • Alexandria’s 200th anniversary (1949)People: Rebecca Ramsay Reese
  • Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Dennis Ramsay; David Arell; Thomas Porter; Rev. James Muir; Rev. Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir; Dr. James Muir; William Bartleman; James Irwin; Robert Adam; William Hodgson and 30 more
  • Alfred Street Baptist ChurchPeople: Gladys Quander Tancil
  • Alger Hiss case
  • All Saints Sharon ChapelPeople: Anne S. Frobel; John Jacob Frobel
  • Alley HousePeople: William Bartleman
  • America250
  • American Baptist Free Missionary SocietyPeople: Albert Gladwin
  • American Baptist Publication SocietyPeople: Albert Gladwin
  • American Colonization SocietyPeople: Philip Richard Fendall II; Edmund Jennings Lee I; Hugh C. Smith; Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel; Phillip Richard Fendall II; Robert B. Jamieson; James Murray Mason; James Douglass; Thomas Sanford
  • American Guano CompanyPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • American Legion Post No. 24
  • American Magazine (1769)People: Lewis Nicola
  • American Pharmaceutical Association
  • American Philosophical SocietyPeople: Lewis Nicola
  • American Red CrossPeople: Lucy Mariah Graves
  • American SouthwestPeople: Nicholas Trist
  • American-LaFrance Fire Engine Company
  • Amoy (Xiamen), ChinaPeople: Delaware Kemper
  • Amsterdam, NetherlandsPeople: John Jacob Frobel
  • Anchor (gravestone symbol)People: John Thomas Newton
  • Andersonville Prison
  • Andrew Jackson Lodge No. 120People: E.E. Downham; Emanuel Ethelbert Downham; Francis Avery Reed; George Duffey
  • Anglican Church in colonial Virginia
  • Anna Maria
  • Annexation of 1915
  • Antarctic Circle
  • AntarcticaPeople: Charles Wilkes
  • Antietam, Battle of (1862)People: Montgomery Dent Corse; William Presley McKnight; Alton Hawkes
  • Antietam National Battlefield
  • Antietam National Cemetery
  • AntiguaPeople: John McKnight
  • Apollo programPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Appomattox statue (Confederate monument)People: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Appomattox, Surrender at (1865)People: Wilmer McLean; Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar; Heath John Brent; Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.; Samuel Richard Johnston; Edgar Warfield Sr.
  • Aqueduct Bridge (Alexandria Canal)
  • Archaeological Protection Ordinance (1989)People: West Family
  • ArchaeologyPeople: Andrew Jamieson; William H. Whaley; John T. Bloxham; Colonel George West; Sybil Harrison West; Sybil West Carlyle
  • Arell’s TavernPeople: David Arell; Richard Arell
  • ArgentinaPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.
  • Arkansas Industrial University Medical DepartmentPeople: Edwin Bentley
  • Arlington HallPeople: William Wolf Weisband; Mabel Elizabeth Woody Ricker
  • Arlington HousePeople: Philip Richard Fendall II; Caroline Branham; Francis Lee Smith; Francis Lee Smith Jr.; Harriotte Lee Taliaferro; Philip Richard Fendall; Samuel Fergusson Beach; Francis Lee Smith, Sr.
  • Arlington House tax seizure (1864)People: Philip Richard Fendall II
  • Arlington National CemeteryPeople: Philip Richard Fendall II; Charles Wilkes; Samuel Phillips Lee; Dr. Edwin Bentley; Major Edwin Bentley; Leonard Paulding; Helen Jane Offley; Virginia Mason; William Gray “Bill” Fendall; Frances Elizabeth ’Bette’ Fendall; John Twiggs Myers; Lieutenant Commander David Twiggs Chalmers
  • Armagh, Northern IrelandPeople: William Dunlap
  • Armed Forces Security AgencyPeople: William Wolf Weisband
  • Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago)People: Charles Goodman
  • Army Navy Country ClubPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Army of Northern VirginiaPeople: Edmond Jennings Lloyd; Montgomery Dent Corse; Robert Knox; Samuel Richard Johnston; Dr. Magnus M. Lewis; Sydney Smith Lee
  • Army of Northern Virginia reserve ordnance trainPeople: George Duffey
  • Army of the Republic of TexasPeople: Samuel B. Carson
  • Arrest of Dr. William Beanes (1814)People: General John Mason
  • Arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia (1619)
  • Arson
  • Articles of ConfederationPeople: Lewis Nicola
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Alexandria memorial service (1968)People: William Randolph Sengel
  • Assembly Hall
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Audubon Society bird sanctuary
  • Augusta Arsenal (Georgia)People: Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Augusta Country ClubPeople: Gazaway Lamar
  • Auld Family Cemetery
  • Australia
  • AviationPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey

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  • B-17 Flying Fortress programPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • B-29 SuperfortressPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • BahamasPeople: Philip Richard Fendall Sr.
  • Baker IslandPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Ballenger’s Hill
  • Baltimore & Ohio RailroadPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • Baltimore, Battle of (1814)People: General John Mason; General Thomas Childs; Robert Young; Robert Allison, Jr.; Samuel Bowen
  • Baltimore, MarylandPeople: Frederick John Paff
  • Bank of AlexandriaPeople: Thomas Porter; William Herbert; James Irwin; James Wilson; Anthony Charles Cazenove; Jonah Thompson; Thomas Vowell; Philip Richard Fendall I; Peter Wise; Andrew Wales; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Captain Robert Conway and 6 more
  • Bank of ColumbiaPeople: General John Mason
  • Bank of Commerce (Savannah)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Bank of the Old DominionPeople: William Holmes Fowle; William Gardner Cazenove
  • Bank of the PotomacPeople: William Hodgson; Hugh Smith
  • Bank of the RepublicPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Bank of the United StatesPeople: General John Mason; Joseph Dean
  • Bank of VirginiaPeople: James Irwin
  • Banking out of the Alexandria waterfrontPeople: George Gilpin
  • Banking out the Alexandria waterfront
  • BankruptcyPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Bantam Burying Ground (Litchfield, Connecticut)People: Lewis Bissell
  • Baptist Church in AlexandriaPeople: John Turpin Brooks
  • Bar Harbor, MainePeople: Constance Cary Harrison
  • BarbadosPeople: Margaret Douglas Bartleman Gregory; William Gregory; William Bartleman
  • BarracoutaPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.
  • Basilica of St. MaryPeople: Cavan Boa; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Park Agnew; Margaret Robinson
  • Battery RodgersPeople: Willard Purdy Graves
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)People: Major Samuel Cooper
  • Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la PalmaPeople: Thomas Wells Childs
  • Battles of Trenton and PrincetonPeople: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine and GermantownPeople: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Beautification of death movement
  • BeaverPeople: Major Samuel Cooper
  • Beehive vault (St. Paul’s Cemetery)People: Lawrence Hooff Jr.
  • Bel Air ManorPeople: Dr. James Craik
  • Belfast, Northern IrelandPeople: James Irwin
  • Bell bookselling, stationery, and printing businessPeople: Robert W. Bell
  • Bellbrook (ship)People: George Whalen
  • Belle Haven Country ClubPeople: Samuel Richard Johnston
  • Belle Isle PrisonPeople: Private Martin Swick
  • Bellevue (Hodgson estate)People: William Hodgson; Portia Lee; Portia Lee Hodgson
  • Bellevue PlantationPeople: John Slater; James Irwin
  • Belvoir (Fairfax family plantation)People: Robert Adam
  • Belvoir Neck
  • Benjamin Hallowell’s School (609 Oronoco Street)People: John Lloyd; Portia Lee Hodgson; Ann Harriotte Lee Lloyd; William Hodgson; Portia Lee; Montgomery Dent Corse; Thomson Francis Mason
  • Benken, SwitzerlandPeople: Abraham Faw
  • Berg (Petersburg) and contraband neighborhoods, The
  • Berlin, GermanyPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • BermudaPeople: Charles Edward Stuart
  • Beth El Hebrew CongregationPeople: Leopold Bendheim
  • Beth El Synagogue (North Washington Street)
  • Bethel CemeteryPeople: Fields Cook; Julius Campbell; George W. Petty; Julius Campbell, Jr.; George Washington Whalen; Montgomery Dent Corse; Chief George W. Petty; Robert Henry Robinson; Margaret Ennis Petty; Frank Entwisle; Rosier D. Lyles
  • Bethel Cemetery chapel
  • Bethel Cemetery Company
  • Bethlehem Female SeminaryPeople: Siloam Hill
  • Beulah Baptist ChurchPeople: Albert Gladwin; John Park Agnew; Rev. George Washington Parker
  • Bible Society of the District of ColumbiaPeople: Thomas Vowell
  • Bill Establishing a Provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion (1784)
  • Bill Fendall TrustPeople: William Gray “Bill” Fendall
  • Bill of RightsPeople: James Murray Mason
  • Black Baptist Cemetery
  • Black Diamond (coal barge)People: Peter Carroll; Christopher Farley; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Carroll; Huntington; Farley; Gosnell
  • Black Diamond disaster (1865)People: Peter Carroll; Christopher Farley; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Carroll; Huntington; Farley; Gosnell
  • Black Diamond MemorialPeople: Peter Carroll; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Christopher Farley
  • Black firefightersPeople: John Dogan
  • Black Hills gold discovery (1874)
  • Black patriots of the RevolutionPeople: John Pipsico; Joseph Harris
  • Blackburn’s Ford, Battle of (1861)People: Delaware Kemper
  • Blackistone Island Lighthouse
  • BlacksmithingPeople: Jacob Fortney
  • Bladensburg, Battle of (1814)People: Robert Young
  • Blair HousePeople: Samuel Phillips Lee; Francis Lightfoot Lee II
  • Bleak HousePeople: Sarah Scott Tracy; Upton Herbert
  • Bleak House fire (1885)People: Sarah Scott Tracy; Upton Herbert
  • Blockade runningPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Bloody Lane (Antietam)
  • Bloxham Family CemeteryPeople: William H. Whaley; John T. Bloxham
  • Blue and buff uniform
  • Blue Licks, Battle of (1782)People: John Sloan
  • Blue Ridge MountainsPeople: Mary Lee Fleming
  • Blueskin (Washington’s horse)People: Benjamin Tasker Delany (Dulaney / Dulany)
  • Board of Architectural Review (Old and Historic Alexandria District)People: Rebecca Ramsay Reese
  • Book trade and printingPeople: Robert W. Bell
  • Boston, MassachusettsPeople: Isaac Pierce; Major Samuel Cooper
  • Boston Port ActPeople: Robert Adam
  • Boston, Siege of (Dorchester Heights, 1776)People: George Gilpin
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Boston Tea PartyPeople: Major Samuel Cooper; General Samuel Cooper; Thomas Porter
  • Bowen College (Oberlin, Ohio)People: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • Boxer Rebellion (1900)People: John Twiggs Myers
  • Braddock Gateway
  • Braddock Gateway archaeological investigationPeople: Philip Richard Fendall
  • Braddock’s Defeat (Battle of the Monongahela, 1755)People: Dr. James Craik; Dr. Robert Creighton; John Carlyle; Thomas Longden
  • Brandywine, Battle of (1777)People: Dr. James Craik; Major Samuel Cooper; Sgt. Thomas Simms; Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • BrewingPeople: Andrew Wales
  • BRIO sculpture (Market Square)People: Jean Robertson Elliot; Robert Sherrard “Sherrie” Elliot Jr.
  • Bristoe Station, Battle of (1863)People: Private Solomon Williams
  • British ArmyPeople: Lewis Nicola
  • British East India Company
  • British naval threat to Alexandria (1781)People: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • British occupation of Alexandria (1814)People: Joseph Dean; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Anthony Charles Cazenove; Rev. James Muir; Dr. James Muir; Rev. Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir; Thomas Vowell; Robert Allison, Jr.; Edmund Jennings Lee, Sr.; General John Mason; Jonah Thompson and 1 more
  • British Potomac Squadron (1814)People: Robert Allison Jr.
  • Broad Run bridge (Loudoun County)People: John Carlyle; William Ramsay
  • Brockett’s AlleyPeople: Major Robert Brockett
  • Brooke Lodge No. 47People: Thomas Porter; Major Robert Brockett; William Dunlap; John Kincaid; John Muir; Richard Rock; Thomas Towers; John Bogue; Dr. James Carson
  • Brooklyn Navy YardPeople: Hiram Paulding
  • Brooklyn, New YorkPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Broomallaw Point (Great Hunting Creek)People: Francis Lee Smith, Sr.; Francis Lee Smith
  • Brown Rebels, ThePeople: James Robert Young Fendall
  • Bruin’s Slave Jail (1707 Duke Street)People: Joseph Bruin; Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson; John Longden; Paul Jennings
  • Buffalo SoldiersPeople: Joseph F. Whelen; John T. Stevenson; Conny Gray; Lorenzo Foster; George Foster; Lewis J. Cook; Annie B. Whelen
  • Bunker Hill, Battle of (1775)People: Major Samuel Cooper; George Gilpin
  • Bureau of Colored Troops
  • Burials beneath church floorsPeople: Reverend Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir, D.D.
  • Burke & Herbert BankPeople: William Herbert; Nicholas Trist; Martha Jefferson Trist; John Wolford Burke; Upton Herbert
  • Burnside’s Bridge (Antietam)
  • Burnt House Field graveyard (Mount Pleasant)People: Sarah Caldwell Lee
  • Bush HillPeople: James Wilson

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  • Cabin JohnPeople: The Female Stranger
  • Cadiz, SpainPeople: John McKnight
  • CaliforniaPeople: James Inglish Ferree; Captain James Montgomery Stuart; James M. Steuart
  • California Gold RushPeople: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • California statehood (1850)People: James Murray Mason
  • Camden, Battle of (1780)People: Lawrence Hurdle
  • Camellia ’Judge Bushrod Washington’People: John Jacob Frobel
  • Cameron (colonial village)People: William Ramsay; John Carlyle
  • Cameron (Cooper home) / Traitor’s HillPeople: Samuel Cooper
  • Cameron MillsPeople: John C. Vowell; David Ricketts
  • Cameron Parish
  • Cameron (Stuart estate)People: Jane Barr Stuart Newton
  • Camp ChasePeople: William L. Phillips
  • Camp ConvalescentPeople: Nehemiah Metlock
  • Camp Meigs (Readville, Massachusetts)People: Alfred Whiting
  • Camp Parole (Annapolis, Maryland)People: Alfred Whiting; William L. Phillips
  • Camp SeminaryPeople: Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart
  • Campaign to remove Confederate flags from King and Washington StreetsPeople: William Randolph Sengel
  • CanadaPeople: James Murray Mason; Frank Stringfellow; Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
  • Captain Cook SocietyPeople: Thomas Tretcher
  • Captain Cook’s third voyage (1776-1780)People: Thomas Tretcher
  • Captain’s Row (Prince Street)People: Capt. John Harper; Captain John Harper; John Lloyd
  • Carlyle & AdamPeople: Robert Adam; John Carlyle
  • Carlyle HousePeople: John Carlyle; James Green; William Herbert; John Slater
  • Carriage makingPeople: Robert F. Prettyman; David Prettyman
  • Catholic Diocese of Richmond
  • Catlett’s Station, Raid on (1862)
  • Cazenove & Co.People: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Louis Albert Cazenove, Sr.; Louis Cazenove
  • Cazenove House (414 North Washington Street)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Louis Cazenove
  • Cazenove treason accusation (1815)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove; General John Mason
  • Cedar Creek, Battle of (1864)People: Lewis Bissell; Frederick A. Olroyd
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery (Vicksburg, Mississippi)People: Eilbeck Mason
  • Cemetery folklorePeople: Martha Vowell Smith
  • Cemetery gate accident (1884)
  • Cemetery preservation and restoration
  • Cemetery records (plot sales and deed books)People: Charles Glasscock
  • Cemetery trees and landscape
  • CenotaphsPeople: Andrew Fletcher Skidmore; Martha Bryan McKnight; William McKnight
  • Centerview Cemetery (Johnson County, Missouri)
  • Cerro Gordo, Battle of (1847)People: General Thomas Childs
  • Chain Bridge
  • Chalmers family lettersPeople: Elizabeth Twiggs “Lily” Myers; William Eaches “Willie” Fendall
  • Champion Star Magnolia
  • Champion trees
  • ChantillyPeople: Louis Albert Cazenove, Sr.; Harriot E. Stuart Cazenove; Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart; Louis Cazenove, Jr.
  • Chantilly, Battle of (1862)
  • Chantilly (Lee estate)People: Francis Lightfoot Lee II; Sarah Caldwell Lee
  • Chapel Alley Meeting House (1791)
  • Chapultepec, Battle of (1847)People: Thomas Wells Childs
  • Charles Bennett monumentPeople: Charles Bennett
  • Charles County, MarylandPeople: Philip Richard Fendall; Philip Richard Fendall Sr.
  • Charleston, South CarolinaPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Delaware Kemper; Dr. Joseph Brown Ladd; Rev. Isaac Stockton Keith
  • Charlotte, North CarolinaPeople: Samuel Cooper
  • Charlottesville, VirginiaPeople: Nicholas Trist
  • Cherry Point (Northumberland County)People: Newton Keene
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Canal CompanyPeople: William Holmes Fowle
  • Chicago History MuseumPeople: Wilmer McLean
  • Chicago, IllinoisPeople: Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms; Minna Everleigh; Ada Everleigh
  • Chicago World’s Fair (1893)
  • Chignik, AlaskaPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Children of the American RevolutionPeople: Ann Ball McCarty Ramsay
  • ChinaPeople: John Twiggs Myers; Capt. Delaware Kemper; John Thomas Newton
  • China Burma India TheaterPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Christ ChurchPeople: George Washington; John Carlyle; George Deneale; General John Mason; Sydney Smith Lee; Lieutenant Colonel Philip B. Marsteller; Colonel Philip Marsteller; Colonel Charles Simms Sr.; Caroline Branham
  • Christ Church (Alexandria)People: Sydney Smith Lee; Edmund Jennings Lee I; George Deneale; William Hodgson; William Gardner Cazenove; Dolly Genevieve Shepperson; Caroline Branham; William Herbert; James Lawrason; William Yeaton; Harriotte Lee Taliaferro; Cassius Francis Lee Sr. and 1 more
  • Christ Church burial groundPeople: Rebecca Ramsay Reese; Charles Edward Stuart
  • Christ Church churchyardPeople: William Ramsay; Colonel Charles Simms Sr.; Colin McIver; Charles Bennett; Peter Wise; Colonel Philip Marsteller; Caroline Branham; LTC Philip Marsteller; Isaac Pierce; Ann McCarty Ball Ramsay; Anne Brunton Warren; Benjamin Chapin and 4 more
  • Christ Church Episcopal CemeteryPeople: James Murray Mason; Sydney Smith Lee; Col. George Gilpin; Colonel George Gilpin; Major Samuel Cooper; General Samuel Cooper; General John Mason; Brigadier General John Mason; Edmund Jennings Lee I; Anna Maria Mason Lee; Francis Lightfoot Lee II; William Herbert and 52 more
  • Christ Church, St. Paul’s, and Trinity Methodist graveyards
  • Christmas Island (Kiritimati)People: Thomas Tretcher
  • Church of England in colonial Virginia
  • Cincinnati, OhioPeople: Lt. Col. John Fowle
  • Citadel (Charleston), ThePeople: Delaware Kemper
  • Citizens National BankPeople: John Park Agnew; Edward L. Daingerfield; William Henry Lambert
  • City Hall fire (1871)People: William Henry McKnight
  • Civil rights movementPeople: William Randolph Sengel; Private Shadrach Murphy; Paul Sandridge; Julius Campbell Jr.; Rev. Fields Cook; Julius Campbell
  • Civil WarPeople: Wilmer McLean; Sydney Smith Lee; James Murray Mason; Charles W. Needham; Caroline Matilde Johnson; Philip Richard Fendall III; Edmond Jennings Lloyd; Martin Swick; James Robert Young Fendall; Montgomery Dent Corse; James Green; Joseph H. Young and 87 more
  • Civil War Defenses of WashingtonPeople: Samuel Richard Johnston
  • Civil War hospitals in AlexandriaPeople: Charles W. Needham; Reuben Rowell; William H. H. Marsh; John H. Thompson; Edward R. French; Isaac E. Lewis; George Parks; Theodore Hyder; George Fermane; Nehemiah Metlock; Solomon Williams; Alton Hawkes and 14 more
  • Civil War medicine and surgeryPeople: James Luman
  • Civil War prisons in AlexandriaPeople: James Green
  • Claremont (Dulany home)People: The Female Stranger; Mrs. Benjamin Dulany
  • ClarensPeople: James Murray Mason; Eliza Margaretta Chew Mason
  • Clemency petition for Will (1792)People: Daniel Douglass; Samuel Craig; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Robert Young; Andrew Wales; Dr. William Ramsay, Jr.; Thomas Porter; John Harper; Jacob Fortney
  • Clermont (Contraband Smallpox Hospital)People: John Mason; Sydney Smith Lee; Anna Marie Mason
  • Clermont (Mason plantation)People: General John Mason
  • Cliveden (Germantown, Pennsylvania)People: Eliza Margaretta Chew Mason
  • Closing of the Everleigh Club (1911)People: Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms
  • Clotilda (slave ship)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Clover Hill, Battle of
  • Coal tradePeople: Park Agnew; John Park Agnew
  • Codrington letterPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove; General John Mason
  • Coins on military graves
  • Cold Harbor, Battle of (1864)People: Heath John Brent; Lewis Bissell
  • Cold War and the Space RacePeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Cold War espionagePeople: William Weisband
  • Collector of the Port of AlexandriaPeople: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • College of William and MaryPeople: James Murray Mason
  • Colonial Revival
  • Colonization movementPeople: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel
  • ColrossPeople: Thomson Francis Mason; Elizabeth C. Price Mason; Thomas Francis Mason; Jonathan Swift; Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Colross Plantation Family CemeteryPeople: Thomas Francis Mason
  • Columbia Fire CompanyPeople: Edward L. Daingerfield; George W. Petty; Frank Entwisle; George Whalen; George Nelson Duffey; Charles Wills Duffey
  • Columbian Harmony CemeteryPeople: Paul Jennings
  • Columbian HorsePeople: Robert Nash
  • Columbian University (George Washington University)People: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel
  • Columbus, Georgia, Battle of (1865)People: Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Committee of SafetyPeople: William Ramsay
  • Committee of Vigilance (1814)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Joseph Dean; Jonah Thompson; Thomas Vowell
  • Common Council of AlexandriaPeople: Peter Wise; Colonel Francis Peyton; George Deneale; James Keith; Thomas Porter
  • Compromise of 1850People: James Murray Mason; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Condominium on Douglass Cemetery’s northern boundary
  • ConfederacyPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Confederate ArmyPeople: Samuel Cooper; Samuel Cooper Jr.; Col. Abraham C. Myers
  • Confederate espionagePeople: Frank Stringfellow; Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Stringfellow; Caroline Matilde Johnson
  • Confederate execution orders against Black soldiers (1862)People: Samuel Cooper
  • Confederate government recordsPeople: Samuel Cooper
  • Confederate Memorial Day
  • Confederate Naval AcademyPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee
  • Confederate NavyPeople: Sydney Smith Lee; Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.; Murray D. Mason; Dr. Robert Conrad Powell
  • Confederate Ordnance DepartmentPeople: Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Confederate prisoners of war burials (Christ Church)
  • Confederate Quartermaster DepartmentPeople: Abraham Charles Myers; George Johnston
  • Confederate States Marine CorpsPeople: James Robert Young Fendall; Philip Richard Fendall III
  • Confiscated cotton claimsPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • CongoPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Congress of Royal Governors at Carlyle House (1755)People: John Carlyle
  • Congressional CemeteryPeople: Sarah Porter; Mary Ingle; Catherine Hilton; Samuel N. Hilton; James Harrington Hilton; Paulina Cazenove Henderson; Archibald Murray Henderson; John Thomas Newton
  • Congressional Silver MedalPeople: John Thomas Newton
  • Consecration of Christ Church (1814)
  • Constitutional Convention (1787)People: George Washington
  • Continental ArmyPeople: Caroline Matilde Johnson; Dr. James Craik; George Washington; Joseph Harris; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Colonel Lewis Nicola; Samuel Cooper; Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Continental Army hospital at Alexandria (1777)
  • Continental Army medical departmentPeople: Dr. James Craik
  • Continental Corps of ArtilleryPeople: Cavan Boa
  • Continental LinePeople: Robert Allison Sr.
  • Contraband barracks
  • Contraband Cemetery (Arlington)People: Francis Lee Smith
  • Contraband hospital at Clermont
  • Contraband hospitals
  • Contrabands and Freedmen’s CemeteryPeople: Francis Lee Smith; Shadrack Murphy; John Cooley; Morris Grimes; Francis Lee Smith, Sr.; Millie Bailey; Private Adolphus Jacobs; Albert Gladwin; Tobias Trout
  • Contrabands (Civil War freedom seekers)People: Albert Gladwin
  • Convention of Kanagawa (1854)People: Captain Sydney Smith Lee
  • Convention of the Colored People of Virginia (1865)People: Rev. Fields Cook
  • Conway CabalPeople: Dr. James Craik; Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Coronation of Queen Victoria (1838)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Cosmos ClubPeople: John L. Lewis
  • Cottage FarmPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Cotton diplomacyPeople: James Murray Mason
  • Cotton tradePeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; William Cazenove
  • Cotton trianglePeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Counterfeit moneyPeople: The Female Stranger
  • Court-martial of John Thomas Newton (1844)People: John Thomas Newton
  • Covent Garden, LondonPeople: Anne Brunton Warren
  • Craik monument (Old Presbyterian Meeting House)People: Dr. James Craik
  • Crane’s Artillery RegimentPeople: Major Samuel Cooper
  • Crater, Battle of the (1864)People: Adolphus Jacobs; Tobias Trout
  • Crazy Horse, Surrender of (1877)
  • Crossing the equatorPeople: Eleanor Tretcher
  • CSS AtlantaPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.
  • CSS GeorgiaPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.
  • CSS LouisianaPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.
  • CSS MissouriPeople: Dr. Robert Conrad Powell
  • CSS RappahannockPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.
  • CSS ShenandoahPeople: Sydney Smith Lee, Jr.; Smith Lee Jr.; Sydney Smith Lee
  • CSS TuscaloosaPeople: Dr. Robert Conrad Powell
  • CSS Virginia (USS Merrimack)People: Sydney Smith Lee; Hiram Paulding
  • Cub Run BridgePeople: Capt. Delaware Kemper
  • Cub Run Bridge and “The Great Skedaddle”People: Delaware Kemper
  • CubaPeople: Lucy Mariah Graves
  • Culloden, Battle of (1746)
  • Culpeper County, VirginiaPeople: John Sloan
  • Cumberland County, New JerseyPeople: John Westcott
  • Cumberland County, PennsylvaniaPeople: William McKnight; Martha Bryan McKnight
  • Cumberland, MarylandPeople: John Park Agnew

D

  • D. Haas’ Gallery of Photographs
  • Dade PlantationPeople: John Slater
  • Danville, VirginiaPeople: Janie L. Sutherlin Smith
  • DAR and SAR grave markersPeople: Major Samuel Cooper
  • DartmouthPeople: Major Samuel Cooper
  • Daughters of the American RevolutionPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Major Samuel Cooper; George Gilpin
  • Davy House (25 South Royal Street)People: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel; Martha Alice Lugenbeel
  • DC JailPeople: Catherine Cooper Reardon
  • Death in childbirthPeople: Sarah “Sally” Fairfax Carlyle
  • Death of Captain Cook (1779)People: Thomas Tretcher
  • Death of Charles Glasscock (1852)People: Charles Glasscock
  • Death of Chief George W. Petty (1911)People: George W. Petty
  • Death of Daniel Perry in a boiling soap kettle (1808)People: Daniel F. Perry
  • Death of Elmer Ellsworth (1861)People: James W. Jackson; Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth; Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth; Pvt. Francis E. Brownell; John Dundas
  • Death of George Washington (1799)People: Caroline Branham; Dr. James Craik; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; William Brown; George Washington; Reverend Dr. James Muir; Col. George Gilpin
  • Death of James Jackson (1861)People: James Albert English
  • Debtors’ prisonPeople: Philip Richard Fendall; Philip Richard Fendall Sr.
  • Declaration of IndependencePeople: Francis Lightfoot Lee II; Sarah Caldwell Lee; Harriet E. Stuart; Richard Henry Lee; Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart; Francis Lightfoot Lee
  • Dedication of Ivy Hill Cemetery (1856)
  • Dedication of the Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery Memorial (2014)
  • Dedication of Union Cemetery (1860)
  • Defenses of Washington (Civil War forts)People: Samuel Cooper
  • Demaine and Wheatley Funeral Homes
  • Demerara River (Guyana)People: John Thomas Newton
  • Diana (ship)People: John C. Vowell
  • Diary of Anne S. FrobelPeople: Anne S. Frobel
  • Dinwiddie Court House, Battle of (1865)People: Robert Knox
  • Distinguished Service MedalPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • District of Columbia boundary stones
  • District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (1862)
  • District of Columbia MilitiaPeople: General John Mason; Robert Young; Hugh Smith; Robert Allison Jr.; Andrew Thomas Kennedy; Anthony Ramsay; Charles Mankin; David Dick; Leonard Adams; Presley Jacobs; Robert Anderson; Samuel Popham Thompson and 11 more
  • District of Columbia south cornerstone at Jones Point (1791)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Rev. Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir; Dr. James Muir; Rev. James Muir
  • Division of Truro Parish
  • Domestic Manufacturing CompanyPeople: James Irwin
  • Domestic slave tradePeople: Robert Young
  • Douglas World Cruiser SeattlePeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Douglass Cemetery AssociationPeople: Rufus H. Porter; Henry H. Waring; Fields Cook; Freeman H. M. Murray; William B. Dulaney; L. Peyton Chauncey
  • Douglass Cemetery Descendant Advisory Group
  • Douglass Cemetery drainage and stormwater project
  • Douglass Cemetery geophysical survey (2019)
  • Douglass Memorial CemeteryPeople: Rev. Fields Cook; Benjamin Thomas; L. Peyton Chauncey; Alexander Harden; Julius Campbell
  • Dowell China Shop fire (1855)People: William Evans; George O. Plain; John Roach; Robert I. Taylor; George David Appich; J. Carson Greene; James W. Keene; John Dogan; Charles James Wise; David Williams; William Henry Lambert; George W. Petty and 2 more
  • Downham AlleyPeople: Emanuel Ethelbert ’E.E.’ Downham
  • Drewry’s Bluff, Battle of (1862)People: Robert Knox; Sydney Smith Lee
  • Drewry’s Bluff (Fort Darling)People: Captain Sydney Smith Lee
  • Drowning of the Rollins brothers in Four Mile Run (1921)People: James Herrell Rollins Jr.; John Lee Rollins
  • DuelingPeople: Louis Cazenove; William H. Fowle; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Duke Street
  • Duke Street slave penPeople: Robert Young
  • Dumfries, VirginiaPeople: William Ramsay
  • Dundas Castle (Castle Thunder)People: John Dundas

E

  • E. E. Downham & Co.People: Emanuel Ethelbert Downham
  • E. I. du Pont de Nemours & CompanyPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Early burying ground near Montgomery and Royal Streets
  • Early’s raid on Washington (1864)
  • East India SquadronPeople: Captain Sydney Smith Lee
  • East Orange, New JerseyPeople: Samuel Richard Johnston
  • East Woods (Antietam)
  • Ebenezer Baptist ChurchPeople: Rev. Fields Cook
  • Ebensburg, PennsylvaniaPeople: John Park Agnew
  • Edmonson Sisters Memorial (Duke Street)People: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • Edsall’s StationPeople: Harry Edward Poss
  • Eleanor (ship)People: Major Samuel Cooper; Robert Allison Jr.
  • Elliot House (323 South Fairfax Street)People: Jean Robertson Elliot; Robert Sherrard “Sherrie” Elliot Jr.
  • Emancipation (abolition of slavery)People: Constance Cary Harrison; Abraham Faw; Julia Quander
  • Emancipation ProclamationPeople: Old Mary Morse; Julia Quander
  • Embargo Act of 1807People: William Hartshorne
  • Emerson Engine Company
  • EnglandPeople: James Green; Hugh Smith; William Evans; Thomas Tretcher; Judith Bogue; Gazaway Bugg Lamar; William Hodgson; James W. Keene; John Slater; Anne Brunton Warren; Eleanor Tretcher; Dr. John D. Vowell and 2 more
  • Enlargement of Alexandria (1762)
  • Enlargement of Alexandria (1796 and 1798)People: William Hartshorne; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Enslaved people’s escapes (freedom seekers)People: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson; Gottlieb Appich; Townsend Derricks; Mary Long Derricks; William Ramsay; Major Robert Brockett; James Murray Mason
  • Epidemic of 1814-1815 (putrid sore throat / typhus fever)People: William Newton; Jane Barr Stuart Newton
  • Episcopal CemeteryPeople: Colonel Charles Edward Stuart
  • Episcopal High SchoolPeople: Frank Stringfellow; Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
  • EpitaphsPeople: Sarah “Sally” Fairfax Carlyle; Samuel Cooper; Thomas Tretcher; Female Stranger; Dr. Robert Creighton; George Gordon Asher
  • Erie Canal
  • EuropePeople: Lucy Mariah Graves
  • Eutaw Springs, Battle of (1781)People: John Pipsico; George William Carlyle; John Carlyle
  • Evergreen House (Fairfax County)People: George Dashiell Fowle
  • Everleigh Club (Chicago)People: Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms; Minna Everleigh; Ada Everleigh; The Everleigh sisters
  • Exchange Bank of VirginiaPeople: Robert B. Jamieson
  • Execution of John Brown (1859)People: Colonel Edward Stuart; Colonel Charles Edward Stuart; George Duffey
  • Execution of Pvt. John H. Thompson for desertion (1864)People: John H. Thompson
  • Execution of the Lincoln conspirators (1865)People: Peter Carroll; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Christopher Farley
  • Expulsion of Southern senators (1861)People: James Murray Mason

F

  • Fairfax City CemeteryPeople: James W. Jackson
  • Fairfax County Committee of SafetyPeople: John Carlyle; George Gilpin
  • Fairfax County CourtPeople: William Ramsay
  • Fairfax County CourthousePeople: John Bogue
  • Fairfax County Jail escape (1896)People: Harry Edward Poss
  • Fairfax County MilitiaPeople: George Gilpin
  • Fairfax County prisonPeople: William Ramsay
  • Fairfax House (207 Prince Street)People: Lewis McKenzie; William Hodgson; Portia Lee Hodgson; John Adam (1781-1843)
  • Fairfax Independent Company of VolunteersPeople: Major Robert Brockett; William Ramsay; David Arell; Samuel Arell; Colonel George Gilpin; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Benjamin Tasker Delany (Dulaney / Dulany); Benjamin Dulany
  • Fairfax Parish
  • Fairfax Railroad Museum
  • Fairfax Resolves (1774)People: Robert Adam; John Carlyle; John Adam (1781-1843); David Arell; Richard Arell; George Gilpin; William Ramsay
  • Fairfax School (Clarens), ThePeople: James Murray Mason
  • Fairfax Seminary HospitalPeople: Isaac E. Lewis
  • Fairfax StationPeople: William H. King
  • Fairfax Street Burial Ground
  • Fall of Richmond (1865)People: Janie L. Sutherlin Smith; Samuel Cooper
  • Falls Church
  • Families divided by the Civil WarPeople: John Muir
  • Family and home burial groundsPeople: Philip Richard Fendall; Mollie Fendall
  • Family burial plotsPeople: Colonel George West; Sybil Harrison West; Sybil West Carlyle; Sarah Caldwell “Sally” Lee Lee; Edmond Jennings Lee; Francis Lightfoot Lee II
  • “Fancy girl” tradePeople: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • Farmers’ Bank of VirginiaPeople: William Gregory III; William Gregory; James Irwin
  • Farmer’s Merchant BankPeople: William Gregory; William Gregory III
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fassifern SchoolPeople: Jean Robertson Elliot
  • Federalist PartyPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Dennis Ramsay
  • Female Orphan AsylumPeople: Robert B. Jamieson
  • Female StrangerPeople: The Female Stranger; Rosina Fortney; Female Stranger
  • Fendall Family Cemetery (Slaters Lane)People: Philip Richard Fendall I; Philip Richard Fendall Sr.; Elizabeth Steptoe Lee; Mary ’Mollie’ Lee; Philip Richard Fendall; Mollie Fendall
  • Fendall FarmPeople: Philip Richard Fendall I
  • Fendall farm leased to John Gadsby (1808)People: Mollie Fendall
  • Fendall property lawsuit (1917-1919)People: William Eaches “Willie” Fendall
  • Fenwick, Mason & CompanyPeople: General John Mason
  • Field of Lost ShoesPeople: Francis Lee Smith, Jr.
  • Final surrender of the Confederacy (1865)People: Sydney Smith Lee, Jr.
  • Fire Insurance Company of AlexandriaPeople: Hugh Smith; Robert B. Jamieson
  • Firefighter funeralsPeople: George W. Petty; George David Appich; George Plain; Robert Taylor; William Evans; James Keene; John Roach; J. Carson Greene; George Whalen
  • Firefighters killed in the line of dutyPeople: George David Appich; Charles Glasscock
  • Firefighters’ Memorial (Ivy Hill Cemetery)People: William Evans; John Roach; George David Appich; J. Carson Greene; James Keene; George O. Plain; Robert I. Taylor; James Keen
  • First Amendment and the Bill of Rights
  • First and Second Battles of Manassas
  • First Battalion of the Pennsylvania ProvincialsPeople: William McKnight
  • First Civil War blood transfusion (1864)People: Dr. Edwin Bentley; Major Edwin Bentley
  • First Confiscation Act (1861)
  • First Continental CongressPeople: George Washington
  • First Decoration Day (1868)People: General John A. Logan; Mayor William N. Berkley; Judge Westel Willoughby
  • First Flight Around the World (1924)People: Alva Lee Harvey
  • First Free School Society of AlexandriaPeople: George Lewis Seaton
  • First Massachusetts MilitiaPeople: Captain John McCobb
  • First Presbyterian Church (1775 building, burned 1835)
  • First Presbyterian Church of AlexandriaPeople: John Park Agnew
  • First Thanksgiving proclamation (1777)People: Sarah Caldwell Lee
  • Fish wharf saloonPeople: George W. Petty
  • Fitzgerald’s residence (100 King Street)People: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Fitzgerald’s Warehouse (King and Union Streets)People: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Fitzhugh Lee’s Cavalry Brigade
  • Five Forks, Battle of (1865)
  • Flags-in-the-Ground (Memorial Day)
  • Flood of 1889People: John Park Agnew
  • Florence StockadePeople: Alfred Whiting
  • FloridaPeople: Abraham Charles Myers; General Thomas Childs
  • Flounder housesPeople: Robert Brockett, Sr.
  • Flour tradePeople: Louis Cazenove
  • Flying Camp (1776)People: Isaac E. Lewis
  • Ford’s Theatre
  • Formation of the Presbyterian Church (USA)People: William Randolph Sengel
  • Formation of West VirginiaPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • Fort Abraham LincolnPeople: Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Fort Armstrong (Rock Island, Illinois)People: Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Fort Belvoir
  • Fort Blakely, Battle of (1865)People: James Robert Young Fendall
  • Fort BrookePeople: Abraham C. Myers; Marion Isabelle Twiggs
  • Fort Brooke (Tampa Bay, Florida)People: General Thomas Childs
  • Fort Charles (Kinsale, Ireland)People: Lewis Nicola
  • Fort Columbus post cemeteryPeople: Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Fort DuquesnePeople: William McKnight; Dr. Robert Creighton; John Carlyle; Dr. James Craik
  • Fort EllisPeople: Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Fort EllsworthPeople: Benjamin Tasker Delany (Dulaney / Dulany)
  • Fort Ethan AllenPeople: Lewis Bissell; Frederick A. Olroyd
  • Fort GainesPeople: James Robert Young Fendall
  • Fort Heilman (Florida)People: Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Fort LyonPeople: Ferdinand Wetterer; Leo Kuchns; Charles Reissner; Franz Lutz; John Jones; August Friedrichs; Charles Wendt; John Dillman; Frederick Kuntze; Charles Schield; Paul Biewald; Jacob Kuhn and 11 more
  • Fort Lyon explosion (1863)People: Leo Kuchns; Ferdinand Wetterer; Charles Reissner; Franz Lutz; John Jones; August Friedrichs; Charles Wendt; John Dillman; Frederick Kuntze; Charles Schield; Paul Biewald; Jacob Kuhn and 11 more
  • Fort McHenryPeople: General Thomas Childs; General John Mason
  • Fort MonroePeople: Heath John Brent; William Presley McKnight
  • Fort Myer (Arlington)
  • Fort Myers, FloridaPeople: Abraham Charles Myers; Marion Isabelle Twiggs; Marion
  • Fort Necessity (1754)People: Dr. James Craik
  • Fort Pillow massacre (1864)
  • Fort Robinson
  • Fort Stevens, Battle of (1864)People: Nehemiah Metlock
  • Fort Sumter (1861)People: Kosciusko Kemper
  • Fort Wagner, Assault on (1863)People: Alfred Whiting
  • Fort WardPeople: Mollie Nelson
  • Fort Warren (Boston)People: James Murray Mason; Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Fort Washington (Fort Warburton), MarylandPeople: General Thomas Childs; Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Fort WillardPeople: Samuel Richard Johnston
  • Fort WilliamsPeople: Samuel Cooper
  • Founding of Alexandria (1749)People: William Ramsay; John Carlyle; Lawrence Washington; George Fairfax; George Washington
  • Founding of Jamestown
  • Founding of the Episcopal Cemetery and Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex (1806)People: George Deneale
  • Founding of the Presbyterian Cemetery (1809)People: James Irwin; Andrew Jamieson
  • Four Mile RunPeople: James Herrell Rollins Jr.; John Lee Rollins
  • Fourth of July parade (1798)People: Robert Young
  • Fowle-Cazenove duel (1827)People: William Holmes Fowle; Louis Cazenove; Louis Albert Cazenove Sr.
  • Fox huntingPeople: Robert Adam
  • FrancePeople: Philip Richard Fendall I; George Mason Jr.; Dr. William Ramsay Jr.; Philip Richard Fendall Sr.
  • Francis C. Hammond High SchoolPeople: William Yoast
  • Francis Lee Smith House (510 Wolfe Street)People: Francis Lee Smith; Francis Lee Smith, Jr.; Francis Lee Smith, Sr.
  • Francis Scott Key’s prisoner-release mission (1814)People: General John Mason
  • Franconia Railroad StationPeople: Robert Rollins Fowle
  • Franconia Road (Old Fairfax Road)People: Robert Rollins Fowle
  • Frankhonia Farm (Franconia)People: Robert Rollins Fowle
  • Franklin and ArmfieldPeople: Hugh C. Smith; Robert Young
  • Franklin and Armfield Slave Pen (Freedom House Museum, 1315 Duke Street)People: Robert Young; Rev. Lewis Henry Bailey
  • Franklin Expedition (1845)
  • Fraternal symbols on gravestonesPeople: Robert I. Taylor
  • Frayser’s Farm, Battle of (1862)People: William Presley McKnight
  • Frederick Committee of ObservationPeople: Abraham Faw
  • Frederick, MarylandPeople: Abraham Faw
  • Frederick Resolves (1774)People: Benjamin Tasker Delany (Dulaney / Dulany)
  • FredericksburgPeople: Caroline Matilde Johnson
  • Fredericksburg, Battle of (1862)
  • Free Black community of AlexandriaPeople: Moses Hepburn; Joseph Harris; Hannah Lyles; Laura Missouri Dorsey; John Pipsico; George Lewis Seaton
  • Freedman’s Savings BankPeople: Rev. Fields Cook
  • Freedmen’s BureauPeople: James Inglish Ferree; Mary Long Derricks; Private Adolphus Jacobs
  • Freedmen’s Village
  • Freedom purchased for Robert RobinsonPeople: Robert Henry Robinson; Caroline Branham
  • Freedom suitsPeople: Joseph Harris; Dr. James Craik
  • FreemasonryPeople: Dennis Ramsay; George Deneale; William Herbert; William Hodgson; Major Henry Piercy; Dr. James Muir; Reverend Dr. James Muir; LTC Philip Marsteller; E.E. Downham; Francis Avery Reed; Dr. Henry Rose; Robert Young and 3 more
  • French and Indian WarPeople: Dr. James Craik; John Carlyle; Pierre LaCroix; William McKnight; Dr. Robert Creighton; George Washington; John Wilkes
  • French privateersPeople: John McKnight
  • French RevolutionPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Friends Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
  • Friends of Douglass Cemetery
  • Friends of Fort Ward
  • Friends of Freedmen’s Cemetery
  • Friends Woodlawn Meeting House
  • Friendship Fire CompanyPeople: Charles Glasscock; Dr. James Carson; Robert F. Prettyman; James W. Keene; Captain Charles McKnight; Capt. Delaware Kemper; Benjamin Shreve Jr.; Adam Lynn Jr.; Emanuel Ethelbert ’E.E.’ Downham; E.E. Downham; David Prettyman; James Keen and 1 more
  • Friendship Fire Company 250th anniversary (2024)
  • Friendship Fire Company plot (Methodist Protestant Cemetery)People: Charles Glasscock; James Keen; J. Carson Greene; James W. Keene
  • Friendship Fire Company suction engine (John Rodgers, Baltimore, 1851)People: Charles Glasscock
  • Friendship Firehouse MuseumPeople: Charles Glasscock; James W. Keene; Robert F. Prettyman; Robert Downham; Captain Benjamin Thomas
  • Friendship Fountain
  • Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Association
  • Fruit Growers Express
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850People: James Murray Mason; Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • Fundraising for the American RevolutionPeople: Ann McCarty Ball Ramsay
  • Funeral of Dolley MadisonPeople: Philip Richard Fendall II
  • Funeral of George Washington Parke CustisPeople: Philip Richard Fendall II; Cassius Francis Lee Sr.
  • Funerary monuments and mausoleums
  • Furniture making and cabinetmakersPeople: John A. Muir; Robert Abercrombie; James Green; Mary Lang Muir; James F. Muir

G

  • Gadsby’s TavernPeople: The Female Stranger; William McKnight; Captain Charles McKnight; Rosina Fortney; Samuel Hilton; Anne Brunton Warren; Rebecca Ramsay Reese; Captain William Harper; John Thomas Newton; Dr. John Richards; John Wise Sr.
  • Gadsden Purchase (1853)
  • Garrett farm
  • General Harrison (barque)People: John Hunter
  • General Order 252 (1863)
  • General Pinkney (schooner)People: Robert Young
  • Geneva Bible (1640)People: Rev. James Muir
  • Geneva, SwitzerlandPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Louis Albert Cazenove, Sr.; Louis Cazenove
  • Gentry RowPeople: John Harper
  • George Gilpin House (208 King Street)People: George Gilpin
  • George Lewis Seaton House (404 South Royal Street)People: George Lewis Seaton
  • George Washington Birthday ParadePeople: Rev. James Muir
  • George Washington Birthday Parade (1914)People: Robert Downham
  • George Washington Masonic National MemorialPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Emanuel Ethelbert Downham; Benjamin Tasker Delany (Dulaney / Dulany); John Duffey; Robert Downham; Major George Duffey; E.E. Downham
  • George Washington (privateer)People: Dr. William Ramsay, Jr.
  • George Washington’s birthday celebrationPeople: Mary Gregory Crauford Powell
  • George Washington’s map of Alexandria (1749)People: George Duffey
  • GeorgetownPeople: General John Mason
  • Georgetown Presbyterian Church burial groundPeople: Virginia Mason
  • Georgia MilitiaPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Georgia Steamboat CompanyPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Georgia (U.S. state)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • German immigrants in AlexandriaPeople: Gottlieb Appich
  • Germania Band
  • German-Jewish immigrationPeople: Julius Dreifuss
  • Germantown, Battle of (1777)People: George Gilpin; Major Samuel Cooper; Sgt. Thomas Simms
  • GermanyPeople: Frederick John Paff
  • Gettysburg, Battle of (1863)People: Samuel Richard Johnston; Heath John Brent; Dennis McCarty Johnston; George Duffey; Edward Samuel Duffy; George Parks; Charles W. Needham
  • Gettysburg Campaign (1863)People: Charles W. Needham; Private Martin Swick
  • GhanaPeople: Julia Quander
  • Ghost legendsPeople: The Female Stranger
  • GibraltarPeople: John Thomas Newton
  • Gig Harbor, WashingtonPeople: Charles Wilkes
  • Gilpin plaque (206 King Street)People: George Gilpin
  • Gilpin’s Plan of Alexandria (1798)People: George Gilpin
  • Gladwin RecordPeople: Albert Gladwin; Private Adolphus Jacobs
  • Glenwood CemeteryPeople: Philip Richard Fendall II
  • Glorious Revolution (1688)
  • Glory (film)
  • Goings Family Cemetery
  • Gosport Navy Yard (Norfolk Navy Yard)People: Sydney Smith Lee
  • Government-issued military headstonesPeople: William Wolf Weisband; Edward R. French; Watson Parmalee; Nehemiah Metlock; William L. Phillips
  • Grace Church Branch Hospital
  • Granary Burying Ground (Boston)
  • Grand Army of the RepublicPeople: Willard Purdy Graves; Frederick A. Olroyd; General John A. Logan
  • Grand Army of the Republic, Ellsworth Post No. 5
  • Grand Lodge of Virginia (Freemasons)People: Francis Avery Reed; Kosciusko Kemper
  • Grand Review of the Armies (1865)
  • Grave marking ceremoniesPeople: Dr. James Carson
  • Grave orientation (east-west burials)People: John Dundas; Nancy Moore Keene
  • Grave robbing
  • Graves House and Grocery (623 South Fairfax Street)People: Lucy Mariah Graves; Willard Purdy Graves
  • Gravestone carvers and stonemasonsPeople: Charles Lloyd Neale; L. Peyton Chauncey
  • Gravestone conservation and cleaning
  • Gravestone errorsPeople: Susannah Evans McKnight; Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel; Montgomery Dent Corse; John Jacob Frobel; George W. Petty; Abraham C. Myers; Dr. James Craik
  • Gravestone inscriptionsPeople: General Thomas Childs; Ann Eliza Coryton
  • Gravestone symbolsPeople: Pascoe children; William Holmes Fowle; Francis Lee Smith; John Thomas Newton; Robert I. Taylor; three sons of Charles and Honore Pascoe; Charles Pascoe; William Pascoe; Eliza T. Hooe Fowle; Edward L. Daingerfield; James W. Lugenbeel
  • Grayson’s Additional Continental RegimentPeople: Sgt. Thomas Simms
  • Great BritainPeople: James Murray Mason
  • Great DepressionPeople: Edward Stabler Leadbeater, Jr.; John L. Lewis
  • Great Falls of the PotomacPeople: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Great Fire of 1827People: James Green; John Adam (1775-1848); Joseph Dean; Joseph H. Young
  • Great fires of 1827, 1855 and 1871
  • Great Sioux War (1876)People: Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Green Furniture FactoryPeople: James Green
  • Green Spring PlantationPeople: Portia Lee Hodgson; Portia Lee
  • Greenwood Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi)People: Roberta Eugenia Young Brown
  • Grosvenor Branch Hospital (Lee-Fendall House)People: Charles W. Needham; Martin Swick; Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart; Private Solomon Williams; Private Alton Hawkes; Private James Luman; Private Joseph P. Grant; Private Martin Schirm; Private Charles Lassell; Private Samuel McMurray; Private Jacob Zimmerman; Private James Mullen and 3 more
  • Grosvenor Chapel (London)People: John Wilkes
  • Grosvenor House HospitalPeople: Montgomery Dent Corse; Anthony Cazenove; Martin Swick
  • Grosvenor Military HospitalPeople: Charles W. Needham; Dr. Edwin Bentley; Major Edwin Bentley; Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Ground-penetrating radar (GPR)People: Charles Glasscock; Col. George Gilpin; Colonel George Gilpin; Philip Richard Fendall I; Robert Adam; Philip Richard Fendall Sr.; J. Carson Greene; Captain David Black; Mary Gilpin; James W. Keene; John Dundas
  • Groundwater contamination fears and burialsPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Guano Islands Act (1856)
  • Guano tradePeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Guilford Courthouse, Battle of (1781)People: John Pipsico
  • Gun House (Columbus Street)People: George Duffey
  • Gunsmiths of the RevolutionPeople: John Yost
  • Gunston HallPeople: General John Mason; George Mason Jr.; Judge Thomson Francis Mason; George W. Mason

H

  • H. Baader & Sons
  • Hailstorm of 1811
  • HaitiPeople: Robert Young; John Twiggs Myers
  • Haitian Revolution
  • Hallowell School for Colored GirlsPeople: Laura Missouri Dorsey
  • Hamilton AvenuePeople: George Gilpin
  • Hamilton, OntarioPeople: Townsend Derricks
  • Hampden-Sydney CollegePeople: Delaware Kemper
  • Hampton Hounds Hunt ClubPeople: Courtland Hawkins Smith, Sr.
  • Hampton Roads, Battle of (1862)People: James Robert Young Fendall; Hiram Paulding
  • Hand pump fire engines
  • Harbor master of AlexandriaPeople: John McKnight
  • Harlem Heights, Battle of (1776)People: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • Harpers FerryPeople: George Parks
  • Harpers Ferry, Battle of (1862)
  • Harper’s WharfPeople: John Harper
  • Harrisonburg engine explosion (1870)People: William H. King
  • Harvard UniversityPeople: Robert Rollins Fowle; Francis Lightfoot Lee II; Lucia Chauncy Yeaton
  • Havana, CubaPeople: Robert Young; James Murray Mason
  • HawaiiPeople: Thomas Tretcher; Hiram Paulding
  • Hayfield PlantationPeople: Julia Quander
  • Hayti neighborhoodPeople: George Lewis Seaton
  • Hebrew Benevolent SocietyPeople: Leopold Bendheim
  • Herbert Bryant Fertilizer Company
  • Herbert Graves Island, AlaskaPeople: Captain Herbert Cornelius Graves
  • Hermit of Four Mile RunPeople: The Female Stranger
  • Hibernian Society of AlexandriaPeople: Dr. James Carson
  • Hiding of St. Paul’s communion silver (Civil War)People: James Hooff
  • Hillsdale Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)People: Emily Edmonson
  • Historic Alexandria FoundationPeople: John Lloyd
  • Historic HuntleyPeople: Thomson Francis Mason; Elizabeth C. Price Mason
  • Historic preservationPeople: Rebecca Ramsay Reese; Peter Haddon Smith; William Gray “Bill” Fendall; Sarah Scott Tracy
  • HMS Active
  • HMS Aetna
  • HMS Bounty
  • HMS Devastation
  • HMS DiscoveryPeople: Thomas Tretcher
  • HMS ErebusPeople: Robert Allison Jr.; Samuel Bowen
  • HMS EuryalusPeople: Robert Allison Jr.; Samuel Bowen
  • HMS FairyPeople: Robert Allison Jr.; Samuel Bowen
  • HMS Meteor
  • HMS PeacockPeople: John Thomas Newton
  • HMS ResolutionPeople: Thomas Tretcher
  • HMS Seahorse
  • HMS Terror
  • HMS TonnantPeople: General John Mason
  • Hobkirk’s Hill, Battle of (1781)People: John Pipsico
  • Hoffman Town CenterPeople: Colonel George West; Sybil Harrison West; Sybil West Carlyle
  • Hollin HillsPeople: Charles Goodman
  • Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond)
  • Holmes RunPeople: William Gregory III
  • Home of Peace CemeteryPeople: Ruth Sinberg Baker; Charles Bendheim; Leopold Bendheim; Joseph Kaufman; Isaac Schwarz; Henry Strauss; Leroy Schwarz Bendheim; Joseph Brager; Julius Dreifuss; Max Rosenfeld
  • Home SquadronPeople: John Thomas Newton
  • Hooff family vault (St. Paul’s Cemetery)
  • Hooff’s Run
  • Hooff’s Run bridge (1857)
  • Hope Mausoleum (New Orleans)People: James Robert Young Fendall
  • HorticulturePeople: John Slater
  • House of Burgesses
  • Howard Family Cemetery
  • Howardsville
  • Hudson HighlandsPeople: Cavan Boa
  • Hudson View CemeteryPeople: Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth
  • Hugh Smith’s warehouse (215-217 King Street)People: William Evans; George O. Plain; Robert I. Taylor; James W. Keene
  • HuguenotsPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Lewis Nicola; Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Alexander D. F. Perry; Louis Cazenove
  • Hunter’s ShipyardPeople: John Hunter
  • Hunting Creek (Great Hunting Creek)People: James Herrell Rollins Jr.; John Lee Rollins; Francis Lee Smith
  • Hunting Creek tobacco warehousePeople: John Carlyle; William Ramsay
  • Huntington Metro Station
  • Huntsville, AlabamaPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Hurricane of 1786
  • Hydraulion Fire CompanyPeople: George W. Petty; Charles James Wise; Joseph H. Young

I

  • “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”People: James Luman
  • Illegal slave tradePeople: Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Improved Order of Red MenPeople: Robert I. Taylor
  • Inauguration of Andrew Jackson (1829)People: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Indentured servitudePeople: Cavan Boa
  • Independent Meeting House & Burial GroundPeople: Mr. Kelton
  • Indian Head
  • Indian Queen, City Hotel and Fountain TavernPeople: John Wise Sr.
  • Indian Queen Hotel (Baltimore)
  • Indian WarsPeople: Dr. Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Indictment of Jefferson DavisPeople: Rev. Fields Cook; Dr. Fields Cook; George Lewis Seaton
  • Infant mortalityPeople: Laura Ann Gilman; Mary Ann Smith; Paulina Cazenove Henderson; Archibald Murray Henderson
  • International Bank and Financial General BanksharesPeople: Robert Sherrard “Sherrie” Elliot Jr.
  • Interstate 395 automobile fire (2012)People: Joshua Weissman
  • In-town burial ban (1804 and 1809)People: Margaret Janney; Dr. James Craik; Caroline Branham; Dr. James Muir; Charles Bennett
  • Invalid Regiment (Revolutionary War)People: Lewis Nicola
  • IrelandPeople: William Herbert; Lewis Nicola; Dr. James Carson; Ursula Carson; Jesse Taylor; John Ainsworth Stuart; James Irwin; John Kincaid; Edward R. French; Mary Halloday; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Jane Allen Taylor Ramsay and 5 more
  • Isle of Ely, EnglandPeople: Robert Bell, Sr.; Robert W. Bell
  • Ivy Hill CemeteryPeople: Philip Richard Fendall I; George O. Plain; William Evans; James Green; G. David Appich; John Roach; J. Carson Greene; Philip Richard Fendall Sr.; James W. Keene; Robert I. Taylor; Jane Muir Green; Emma Green and 25 more
  • Ivy Hill Cemetery National Register listing (2024)
  • Ivy Hill Historical Society
  • Ivy Hill Keeper’s Lodge (1858)

J

  • J. P. Agnew & Co.People: Park Agnew
  • Jackson Family Cemetery (Swinks Mill Road)People: James W. Jackson
  • Jacobite Rising of 1745
  • JamaicaPeople: Dr. Robert Creighton
  • Jamestown SocietyPeople: Philip Richard Fendall II
  • Jamieson AvenuePeople: Andrew Jamieson; Robert B. Jamieson; Charles W. Needham
  • Jamieson BakeryPeople: Andrew Jamieson; Robert B. Jamieson; Robert Henry Robinson; Andrew Jamison
  • JapanPeople: Sydney Smith Lee
  • Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860)People: Sydney Smith Lee
  • Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis, Missouri)People: Richard Bland Lee
  • Jekyll Island, GeorgiaPeople: Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Jennings House (428 North Washington Street)People: Edmund Jennings Lee I; Cassius Francis Lee
  • Jewish community of AlexandriaPeople: Ruth Sinberg Baker; Charles Bendheim; Leopold Bendheim; Leroy Schwarz Bendheim; Joseph Brager; Julius Dreifuss; Joseph Kaufman; Max Rosenfeld; Isaac Schwarz; Henry Strauss
  • John Brown’s Raid (1859)People: Colonel Charles Edward Stuart; James Murray Mason
  • John Randolph (iron steamboat)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Johnson and Aitcheson descendants’ visit (2024)People: Caroline Matilde Johnson; George O. Plain
  • Jones PointPeople: Josiah Hewes Davis; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Jones Point RopewalkPeople: Josiah Hewes Davis; Captain William Harper; James Irwin
  • Jones Point ShipyardPeople: George S. Whalen
  • Joseph Ingle’s cabinet shop (112 South Royal Street)People: Joseph Ingle
  • Joseph Ingle’s shop (103 South Royal Street)People: Joseph Ingle
  • Josiah Coryton House (522 King Street)People: Ann Eliza Coryton
  • Jubal Early’s swordPeople: Dorthy Crowe
  • Julia (brig)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Juneteenth

K

  • Kate Waller Barrett Branch LibraryPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Mary Gregory Crauford Powell; Anthony Charles Cazenove; William Hartshorne; Benjamin Shreve Jr.; Mary Lloyd Fawcett; Frank Entwisle; John Muir; Charles Glasscock
  • Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
  • Kemper’s BrigadePeople: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Kensico Cemetery (Valhalla, New York)People: Jean Robertson Elliot; Robert Sherrard “Sherrie” Elliot Jr.
  • KentuckyPeople: Philip Richard Fendall; Bryant Sloan; Mary Sloan Randolph
  • Kettle Bottoms
  • Kew Palace
  • KGBPeople: William Wolf Weisband
  • Kilbride, ScotlandPeople: John Adam (1781-1843); Robert Adam
  • Kilmarnock, ScotlandPeople: William Gregory III
  • King College (Tennessee)People: Delaware Kemper
  • King Street HospitalPeople: Edward R. French
  • Kingdom of PrussiaPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Kings Mountain, Battle of (1780)People: Captain Charles McKnight; William McKnight
  • Knickerbocker TheatrePeople: Thomas Fleming; John Paton Fleming; Mary Lee Fleming
  • Knickerbocker Theatre disaster (1922)People: Thomas Fleming; Mary Lee Fleming; John Paton Fleming; Agnes Mellon
  • Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition (1716)People: George Gordon Asher
  • Knights TemplarPeople: E.E. Downham; Francis Avery Reed
  • Korean WarPeople: William Wolf Weisband; William Gray “Bill” Fendall

L

  • Ladd-Isaacs duel (1786)People: Dr. Joseph Brown Ladd
  • Ladd’s Mill firePeople: Louis Cazenove
  • Ladies’ Memorial Association
  • Lafayette House (601 Duke Street)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Lafayette’s visit to Alexandria (1824)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Dr. James Carson; Elizabeth Lawrason; John C. Vowell; Samuel Carson; Major Robert Brockett; Captain Robert Conway; Montgomery Dent Corse; General John Mason; Thomas Lawrason; Thomas Sanford
  • Lafayette’s visit to Washington’s tomb (1824)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • LaGrange (Port Tobacco, Maryland)People: Dr. James Craik
  • Lake Champlain, Battle of (1814)People: Hiram Paulding
  • Lamb’s TavernPeople: Samuel Hilton
  • Lanarkshire, ScotlandPeople: Robert Brockett, Sr.
  • Last Confederate surrender (Liverpool, 1865)People: Sydney Smith Lee Jr.
  • Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)People: Dr. Robert Fleming Fleming; Mary Elizabeth Lee Fleming
  • Lawrason and Shreve warehouse (100 Prince Street)People: James Lawrason
  • Lawrason-Lafayette House (301 South St. Asaph Street)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove; Thomas Lawrason; Elizabeth Lawrason; William Gardner Cazenove
  • Laying of the U.S. Capitol cornerstone (1793)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; George Gilpin; Capt. John Harper; Rev. Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir; Rev. James Muir; John Dunlap; John Duffey; Reverend James Muir, D.D.; Major Henry Piercy; Major George Duffey
  • Leadbeater House (329 North Washington Street)People: William Gregory III
  • Lebanon Union Cemetery
  • Lee Chapel (Lexington, Virginia)People: Henry “Light Horse” Harry Lee III
  • Lee CornerPeople: Edmund Jennings Lee I
  • Lee familyPeople: Philip Richard Fendall I; Francis Lightfoot Lee; Elizabeth Fitzgerald; Jane Fitzgerald; Samuel Phillips Lee; John Fitzgerald Lee; Sydney Smith Lee; Anna Maria Mason Lee; Sydney Smith Lee Jr.; Edmund Jennings Lee I
  • Lee family ownership of the Lee-Fendall House (1785–1903)
  • Lee Resolution (1776)People: Richard Henry Lee; Sarah Caldwell Lee; Edmund Jennings Lee I; Edmond Jennings Lee; Francis Lightfoot Lee II
  • Lee-Fendall HousePeople: Philip Richard Fendall II; Edmund Jennings Lee I; Philip Richard Fendall I; Charles W. Needham; John L. Lewis; Thomas Fleming; John Paton Fleming; Mary Lee Fleming; Sarah Caldwell Lee; Louis Albert Cazenove Sr.; Anthony Charles Cazenove; Philip Richard Fendall and 30 more
  • Lee’s surrender at Appomattox (1865)People: Wilmer McLean; Sydney Smith Lee, Jr.
  • Leesylvania Plantation CemeteryPeople: Lucy Grymes Lee
  • Levee District (Chicago)People: Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms
  • Lewis Nicola’s Newburgh Letter (1782)People: Lewis Nicola
  • LiberiaPeople: James W. Lugenbeel; Philip Richard Fendall II; Hugh C. Smith; Robert Abercrombie
  • Liberian constitutional convention (1847)People: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel
  • Library of VirginiaPeople: General John Mason
  • Lincoln assassination (1865)People: Peter Carroll; Christopher Farley; Tobias Trout; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Captain Sydney Smith Lee Jr.; John Wilkes Booth; Carroll; Huntington; Farley; Gosnell
  • Lincolnia
  • Lincoln’s New York funeral procession (1865)
  • L’InsurgentePeople: John McKnight
  • Liquor tradePeople: E.E. Downham
  • Little Bethel Cemetery
  • Little Bighorn, Battle of the (1876)People: Dr. Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Little Falls PlantationPeople: William Newton
  • Little River TurnpikePeople: George Gilpin; John Lloyd; Charles W. Needham
  • Little River Turnpike CompanyPeople: Joseph Dean
  • Little Round TopPeople: Samuel Richard Johnston
  • Little Theatre of Alexandria
  • Liverpool, EnglandPeople: Sydney Smith Lee, Jr.; William Evans
  • Lloyd HousePeople: Ann Harriotte Lee Lloyd; John Lloyd; Cassius Francis Lee, Sr.; William Albert Smoot, Jr.; John Wise Sr.
  • London, EnglandPeople: John C. Vowell; Thomas Vowell
  • Long Island, Battle of (1776)People: Isaac E. Lewis
  • Long S in gravestone inscriptions
  • Lord Dunmore’s War (1774)People: Colonel Charles Simms Sr.
  • Lord Mayor of Alexandria (1761)People: William Ramsay
  • Lost CausePeople: Samuel Richard Johnston; Dorthy Crowe
  • Lost graves and gravestonesPeople: George Gilpin; Charles Glasscock; Lewis Nicola; J. Carson Greene; James Keene; Philip Richard Fendall; Dr. James Craik; William Ramsay; Robert Adam; Thomas Porter
  • Lost northern ground of the churchyard
  • Lotteries for Alexandria’s market house and first schoolhousePeople: Robert Adam
  • LouisianaPeople: Walter Burnett Brockett; Harriet Perry Stanton
  • L’Ouverture Hospital and the USCT petition (1864)People: Shadrack Murphy; Paul Sandridge; John Cooley; Adolphus Jacobs; Tobias Trout; Alfred Whiting; Dr. Edwin Bentley; Albert Gladwin
  • Lyceum (Alexandria History Museum)People: John Adam (1775-1848); Delaware Kemper; William Henry McKnight; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Rev. Fields Cook
  • Lyles-Crouch SchoolPeople: Rosier D. Lyles
  • Lynching and racial terrorPeople: Joseph McCoy; Benjamin Thomas
  • Lynching of Benjamin Thomas (1899)People: Benjamin Thomas
  • Lynching of Joseph McCoy (1897)People: Joseph McCoy
  • Lynchings in AlexandriaPeople: Joseph McCoy; Benjamin Thomas

M

  • M3 Archaeology LLC
  • MainePeople: Louis Albert Cazenove, Sr.
  • Major John André, Capture of (1780)People: Dr. Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Major League BaseballPeople: Jim Aloysius Shaw
  • Manassas, First Battle of (1861)People: Wilmer McLean; Montgomery Dent Corse; James Robert Young Fendall; Dr. William Bartleman Gregory; Dr. Magnus M. Lewis; Capt. Delaware Kemper
  • Manassas Granite and Marble
  • Manassas, Second Battle of (1862)People: Edward R. French; Isaac E. Lewis; Delaware Kemper
  • Mandeville LanePeople: J. Carson Greene; George Gilpin; John Mandeville; Dr. James Carson; James Lawrason; Alice Lawrason
  • Mansion House HospitalPeople: Rev. James T. Johnston; John Slater; John Muir
  • Mansion House Hotel (Green’s)People: James Green; Emma Green
  • ManumissionPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Hugh Smith; John Hunter; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Dr. James Kennedy; Washington Blunt; Robert Anderson
  • Marbury v. Madison (1803)People: Captain William Harper; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Colonel Francis Peyton
  • Marine Barracks (8th and I)
  • Marine Insurance Company of AlexandriaPeople: Thomas Porter
  • Marine Society of NewportPeople: Captain William Ladd; Capt. William Ladd
  • Maritime trade and seafaringPeople: Thomas Tretcher; Eleanor Tretcher
  • Market Hall (Alexandria)People: Robert Brockett, Sr.
  • Market SquarePeople: Jean Robertson Elliot; Robert Sherrard “Sherrie” Elliot Jr.
  • Marquis de Lafayette as godfatherPeople: Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Marshall HousePeople: James W. Jackson; John Dundas; Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth; Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth; Pvt. Francis E. Brownell; Dr. Magnus M. Lewis
  • Marshall House flagPeople: Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth
  • Martinsburg, Battle of (1863)People: Private Martin Swick
  • Mary Kitty (vessel)People: Captain David Black
  • Maryland and Virginia Rifle RegimentPeople: Rev. Amos Thompson
  • Maryland Campaign (1862)
  • Maryland Committee of SafetyPeople: John Yost
  • Maryland Militia (War of 1812)People: Philip Richard Fendall II; Captain John McKnight; Dr. Augustine J. Smith
  • Maryland provincial conventions (1774-1775)People: Philip Richard Fendall, Sr.; Philip Richard Fendall II; Philip Richard Fendall I
  • Maryland Ratification Convention (1788)People: Abraham Faw
  • Masonic funeralsPeople: Thomas Porter; George Gilpin; Dr. James Carson
  • Mason’s FerryPeople: General John Mason
  • Massachusetts (steamer)People: Peter Carroll; Christopher Farley; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Carroll; Huntington; Farley; Gosnell
  • Massacre of St. George’s Fields (1768)People: John Wilkes
  • Mayors of AlexandriaPeople: Dennis Ramsay; William Ramsay; Leroy Schwarz Bendheim; Henry Strauss
  • McClintock robbery and the Henry & Poss trial (1895-1896)People: Harry Edward Poss
  • McKnight’s CornerPeople: Captain Charles McKnight
  • McKnight’s Tavern (Eagle / Spread Eagle Tavern)People: Captain Charles McKnight; William McKnight
  • McLean House (Appomattox Court House)People: Wilmer McLean
  • McNeil Island federal labor campPeople: William Wolf Weisband
  • McVeigh HousePeople: Mary Long Derricks
  • Mechanics’ Bank of AlexandriaPeople: Robert Young; Thomas Vowell; Joseph Dean; Philip Richard Fendall II
  • Medal of HonorPeople: Pvt. Francis E. Brownell
  • Meeting House bell tower and steeple lottery (1790)People: James Irwin
  • Meeting House parsonagePeople: Rev. James Muir
  • MelrosePeople: Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart
  • Memorial and Remonstrance (1785)People: Andrew Wales; Colin McIver; Peter Wise; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; William Hunter; James Irwin; John Dundas; Captain Henry Lyles; Robert Allison, Sr.; George Hunter; Washington Blunt; Dennis McCarty Johnston and 2 more
  • Memorial services for Washington (February 22, 1800)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Rev. James Muir; Dr. James Muir; Rev. Dr. James Muir; Thomas Davis; William Maffitt
  • Mental health of Civil War soldiersPeople: Watson Parmalee
  • Mental illness and asylumsPeople: Francis Lightfoot Lee II
  • Merchant’s WharfPeople: Jonathan Swift
  • Mercy Street (PBS series)People: Emma Green; James Green; Frank Stringfellow; John A. Muir; Thomas M. Fairfax; Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
  • Metamora (ship)People: John Hunter
  • Methodism
  • Methodist Church
  • Methodist Episcopal Church, South
  • Methodist Protestant CemeteryPeople: Joseph Bruin; Charles Glasscock; William Evans; Robert I. Taylor; Caroline Matilde Johnson; James W. Keene; George O. Plain; Samuel Hilton; George Hurd Duffey; Marie Rosalie Duffy; Kate Duffey; Annie R. Duffey and 10 more
  • Methodist Protestant Church
  • Methodist Protestant Church fire (1952)
  • Methodist schism
  • Methodist schism of 1844
  • Mexican-American WarPeople: Thomas Wells Childs; Montgomery Dent Corse; Nicholas Trist; Samuel Cooper; Sydney Smith Lee; Richard Bland Lee; Captain James Montgomery Stuart; Colonel Archibald Henderson; Paulina Cazenove Henderson; Abraham Charles Myers; James M. Steuart
  • MexicoPeople: General Thomas Childs; Nicholas Trist
  • Mexico City, Capture of (1847)People: Thomas Wells Childs; Nicholas Trist
  • Midnight Judges (1801)People: Colonel Dennis Ramsay
  • Midway Island
  • Military medicinePeople: Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Military pensionsPeople: Isaac E. Lewis; Alfred Whiting
  • Miller’s Cornfield (Antietam)
  • Mine Run Campaign (1863)People: Private James Luman; Robert Marshman
  • Minute-man battalions (Virginia, 1775)
  • Miss Baird’s Home School for Girls (Norwalk, Connecticut)People: Sarah Maude Downham Aitcheson
  • MississippiPeople: Eilbeck Mason
  • Mobile Bay, Alabama
  • Modernist architecturePeople: Charles Goodman
  • Molly (sloop)People: Washington Blunt
  • Monarchy proposal to George WashingtonPeople: Lewis Nicola
  • Monmouth, Battle of (1778)People: Colonel John Fitzgerald; Major Samuel Cooper; Sgt. Thomas Simms; Colonel Charles Simms Sr.; William Reynolds
  • Monocacy, Battle of (1864)
  • Monterrey, Battle of (1846)People: General Thomas Childs
  • MonticelloPeople: Nicholas Trist
  • MoroccoPeople: Jonathan Swift
  • Morton and Foster (bell founders)
  • Mosby’s Rangers (43rd Virginia Cavalry)People: John H. Thompson; James Albert English; Thomas M. Fairfax; William Fowle Dennis; Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
  • Moscow, RussiaPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Moselle (steamboat)People: Lt. Col. John Fowle; Lt. John Fowle
  • Moselle steamboat explosion (1838)People: Lt. John Fowle; Lt. Col. John Fowle
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery
  • Mount Eagle (Montebello)People: Reverend Bryan Fairfax; Donald MacNeil Fairfax; James Murray Mason
  • Mount Erin / Mount AiryPeople: James Irwin
  • Mount Hebron Cemetery (Winchester)People: Fanny Cazenove
  • Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick, Maryland)People: Francis Scott Key
  • Mount VernonPeople: Caroline Branham; Dr. James Craik; Gladys Quander Tancil; Anthony Charles Cazenove; George Washington; Eleanor Washington Howard; William Hodgson; Julia Quander; Colonel George Gilpin; Col. George Gilpin; Capt. John Harper; Philip Richard Fendall I and 10 more
  • Mount Vernon Chapter, DARPeople: Mary Gregory Crauford Powell
  • Mount Vernon Cotton FactoryPeople: John Dundas; William Gregory III
  • Mount Vernon Cotton Manufacturing CompanyPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove; John C. Vowell; Robert B. Jamieson; William Gregory
  • Mount Vernon fisheries (Posey’s Landing)People: Robert Adam
  • Mount Vernon GuardsPeople: Andrew Fletcher Skidmore; Charles Henry McKnight; William Presley McKnight; Robert F. Prettyman
  • Mount Vernon Ladies’ AssociationPeople: John Adam (1775-1848); Sarah Scott Tracy; Upton Herbert
  • Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter No. 14People: Francis Avery Reed
  • Mount Vernon’s first Slave Life tour (1995)People: Gladys Quander Tancil
  • Mount Zephyr (Muddy Hole Farm)People: John Park Agnew
  • Mourning and funeral customs
  • Munson’s HillPeople: George Fermane
  • Murder of Catherine Cooper Reardon (1944)People: Catherine Cooper Reardon
  • Murder of George R. McCurtin (1905)People: George R. McCurtin
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1789)
  • Mutual Ice Company (Potomac Yard)People: Philip Richard Fendall Sr.

N

  • Nantes, FrancePeople: John McKnight
  • Napoleonic Wars
  • NASAPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Airport original terminal (1941)People: Charles Goodman
  • National Capital Presbytery
  • National cemetery act of Congress (1862)
  • National cemetery system
  • National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer (1798)
  • National Harmony Memorial Park (Landover, Maryland)People: Emily Edmonson; Paul Jennings
  • National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)People: John L. Lewis
  • National Memorial Day Flowers Foundation
  • National Memorial Park (Falls Church)People: Mabel Elizabeth Woody Ricker
  • National Museum of American HistoryPeople: William Ramsay; Wilmer McLean
  • National Register of Historic PlacesPeople: George Lewis Seaton
  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812People: Dr. James Carson; Robert Allison, Jr.
  • Native Americans and the Plains WarsPeople: Holmes Offley Paulding
  • Nazi Party and SSPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Neale marble yard (47 South Royal Street)People: Charles Lloyd Neale
  • New Brunswick, CanadaPeople: Private Joseph P. Grant
  • New Fairfax Street burial ground
  • New JerseyPeople: Emanuel Ethelbert ’E.E.’ Downham
  • New Jersey Campaign (1776-1777)People: George Gilpin; Captain William Harper
  • New Market, Battle of (1864)People: Colonel Francis Lee Smith, Jr.
  • New Orleans, Battle of (1815)
  • New Orleans, LouisianaPeople: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson; Joseph Bruin; James Robert Young Fendall; Elizabeth Lawrason; Harriet Perry Stanton; Abraham C. Myers; Frederick A. Olroyd; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • New York and Virginia Steamship Co. depotPeople: William Henry McKnight
  • New York Arsenal (Governors Island)People: Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • New York Central CollegePeople: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • New York CityPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; William Cazenove; Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth; Martha Alice Lugenbeel; Emily Lugenbeel; Major Samuel Cooper; Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms
  • New York Regiments (Continental Army)People: Captain David Black
  • New Zealand
  • Newark, New JerseyPeople: Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Newgate PrisonPeople: William Hodgson
  • Nimes, FrancePeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Ninety-Six, Siege of (1781)People: John Pipsico
  • Nocton
  • Norfolk Southern Railroad boundary agreement (1994)
  • Norfolk, VirginiaPeople: Captain David Black
  • North Briton No. 45 affair (1763)People: John Wilkes
  • North Briton, ThePeople: John Wilkes
  • North CarolinaPeople: Charlotte Buiste Cazenove Shepard
  • North Woods (Antietam)
  • Northern Virginia Campaign (1862)
  • Northern Virginia Fine Arts AssociationPeople: Jean Robertson Elliot; Robert Sherrard “Sherrie” Elliot Jr.
  • Northwest Passage

O

  • Oak Ridge Cemetery (Springfield, Illinois)People: John L. Lewis
  • Oakland Baptist Church CemeteryPeople: Mollie Nelson
  • Oakwood (Mosby safe house, Delaplane)People: Jamieson Asby
  • Obelisk with urn (gravestone symbol)People: Francis Lee Smith
  • Oberlin, OhioPeople: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • OccoquanPeople: John Johnson
  • Occupation of Alexandria (1814)People: Mayor Charles Simms; Edmund Jennings Lee Sr.
  • Odd FellowsPeople: Robert F. Prettyman
  • Odd Fellows HallPeople: George Lewis Seaton
  • Odesa, UkrainePeople: William Wolf Weisband
  • Old Bank of Alexandria BuildingPeople: James Green
  • Old Capitol PrisonPeople: Joseph Bruin; Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Courtenay B. Brent; Frederick John Paff; William Henry McKnight; Robert W. Bell
  • Old Dominion Boat Club
  • Old Dominion RiflesPeople: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Old Presbyterian Meeting HousePeople: Rev. James Muir; Rev. Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir; Dr. James Muir; Reverend Dr. James Muir; Thomas Vowell; John C. Vowell; Anthony Charles Cazenove; John Carlyle; Dr. James Craik; Robert Allison Jr.; William Randolph Sengel and 39 more
  • Old Presbyterian Meeting House 250th anniversary (2022)
  • Old Presbyterian Meeting House burial groundPeople: Dr. James Craik; John Carlyle; Lewis Nicola; David Arell; Dr. Robert Creighton; Thomas Porter; Robert Allison Sr.; Samuel Arell; Joseph Harris; George Hunter; Sarah Fairfax Carlyle; Elizabeth Love Muir and 26 more
  • Old Presbyterian Meeting House Dismantling Racism Team
  • Old Presbyterian Meeting House fire (1835)People: Rev. James Muir; The Reverend Elias Harrison; Reverend James Muir, D.D.
  • Old Presbyterian Meeting House restoration (1927)People: Rebecca Ramsay Reese
  • Old South Meeting House (Boston)People: Major Samuel Cooper; Thomas Porter
  • Old Tom (Civil War horse)People: Dr. William Bartleman Gregory
  • Old Town Village
  • Oldest dated inscription in the Presbyterian CemeteryPeople: Martha Bryan McKnight; William McKnight
  • Oldest legible gravestone in AlexandriaPeople: Isaac Pierce
  • Omaha, NebraskaPeople: Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms
  • Omai’s visit to London
  • Open book (gravestone symbol)People: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel
  • Operation PaperclipPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Orange & Alexandria RailroadPeople: Charles W. Needham; William Holmes Fowle; William H. King; James Franklin Peyton
  • Oriental LodgePeople: George Duffey
  • Orphans’ CourtPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • Oswego, New YorkPeople: Townsend Derricks
  • Oundle, EnglandPeople: John Slater
  • Overland Campaign (1864)
  • Overseers of the PoorPeople: William Hartshorne
  • Oyster shells on graves

P

  • Pacific frontierPeople: Richard Bland Lee
  • Pacific OceanPeople: Sydney Smith Lee, Jr.
  • Pacific steamship servicePeople: Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Paff Shoe Company (Potomac Shoe Factory)People: Frederick John Paff
  • Palo Alto, Battle of (1846)People: General Thomas Childs
  • PanamaPeople: Leonard Paulding
  • Panorama (King George County)People: Charles Edward Stuart
  • Pardon of Confederates (1868)People: James Murray Mason
  • Paris, FrancePeople: Philip Richard Fendall, Sr.
  • Parker-Gray SchoolPeople: Laura Missouri Dorsey; Rosier D. Lyles
  • Parker’s Virginia Light ArtilleryPeople: Edward Samuel Duffy
  • Parliament votes to end the American war (1782)
  • Patowmack Canal (Great Falls skirting canal)People: George Gilpin
  • Patowmack CompanyPeople: William Hartshorne; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Philip Richard Fendall, Sr.; Colonel Charles Simms Sr.; Colonel George Gilpin; Captain Henry Lyles; Philip Richard Fendall I; General John Mason
  • Pearl incident (1848)People: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson; Joseph Bruin; Paul Jennings; James Murray Mason
  • Pearl (schooner)People: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson; Joseph Bruin
  • Peenemünde Army Research CenterPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Peninsula Campaign (1862)People: Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart
  • Pennsylvania Constitutional ConventionPeople: LTC Philip Marsteller
  • Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia)People: Francis Lightfoot Lee II
  • Pennsylvania LinePeople: LTC Philip Marsteller
  • Penny Hill CemeteryPeople: Joseph McCoy; Benjamin Thomas; John Pipsico; Joseph Harris; William Scott; Colonel Francis Peyton; George Deneale; James Keith; Rev. Dr. James Muir
  • Penny Hill Street
  • Penny Hill supposed original site (south Royal Street)
  • Periclean SocietyPeople: Nathaniel Seton Wise
  • Perpetual Building Association of AlexandriaPeople: John Park Agnew
  • Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)People: Sydney Smith Lee
  • Perry–Stanton family burial ground (Louisiana)People: Harriet Perry Stanton
  • Peru
  • Petersburg, Siege ofPeople: Theodore Hyder; Montgomery Dent Corse; Heath John Brent; Lewis Bissell; Private Adolphus Jacobs
  • Petersburg (steamboat)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove; General John Mason
  • Petersburg, VirginiaPeople: Franklin Longden Brockett
  • Petersen House
  • Petition for gradual abolition of slavery in D.C. (1828)People: Thomas Vowell; Isaac Robbins; Nathaniel Seton Wise
  • Pew rentingPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • Philadelphia Alley (Charleston)People: Dr. Joseph Brown Ladd
  • Philadelphia and Baltimore theatersPeople: Anne Brunton Warren
  • Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society
  • Philadelphia City MilitiaPeople: John Dundas
  • Philadelphia Monthly MeetingPeople: William Hartshorne
  • Philadelphia Navy YardPeople: Sydney Smith Lee
  • Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPeople: Lewis Nicola; Anthony Charles Cazenove; Townsend Derricks; Rev. William Thom; John Harper; Mary Vowell; Joseph H. Young; John C. Vowell; Thomas Vowell; Captain William Harper; John McKnight
  • Philadelphia Vigilance CommitteePeople: Townsend Derricks
  • Pickett’s Charge (1863)
  • Pickett’s DivisionPeople: Dr. Magnus M. Lewis
  • Pioneer MillsPeople: William Holmes Fowle
  • Pioneer Mills fire (1897)
  • Pittsfield, MassachusettsPeople: Thomas Wells Childs
  • Plymouth, Battle of (1864)
  • Plymouth ColonyPeople: Lucy Mariah Graves
  • Poet Laureate of VirginiaPeople: Jean Robertson Elliot
  • PoetryPeople: Jean Robertson Elliot
  • Pohick ChurchPeople: West Family; Colonel George West; Sybil Harrison West; Sybil West Carlyle
  • Point Comfort (Hampton, Virginia)
  • Point Lookout
  • Point Lumley warehousePeople: John Carlyle
  • Polly & Nancy (ship)People: John McKnight
  • Pool desegregation
  • Poor Relief CommitteePeople: Rev. James Muir
  • Pope’s Creek (Maryland)
  • Port Moller, AlaskaPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Port of AlexandriaPeople: Wilmer McLean
  • Portsmouth, New HampshirePeople: Philip Richard Fendall III; William Yeaton; Lucia Chauncy Yeaton
  • Post-traumatic stress disorderPeople: Dr. Edwin Bentley; Major Edwin Bentley
  • Potomac Fire Insurance CompanyPeople: Joseph Eaches
  • Potomac Flotilla
  • Potomac (ship)People: John Turpin Brooks
  • Potomac YardPeople: Philip Richard Fendall, Sr.; Philip Richard Fendall I
  • Potter’s fields and pauper burialsPeople: Joseph McCoy
  • PotteryPeople: Major Henry Piercy
  • Powhatan (ship)
  • Presbyterian CemeteryPeople: Robert Young; Dennis Ramsay; Francis Lee Smith; John Thomas Newton; Anthony Charles Cazenove; Robert Allison Jr.; Lewis McKenzie; Philip Richard Fendall II; Thomas Fleming; Mary Lee Fleming; Thomas Tretcher; Robert Adam and 105 more
  • Presbyterian Cemetery Board of DirectorsPeople: Sherman Curtis Hildreth; Joseph Hazel Newell
  • Presbyterian Cemetery ColumbariumPeople: Peter Haddon Smith
  • Presbyterian Cemetery iron fence and gates (1903)People: Martha Vowell Smith; Sarah Gosnell Vowell Smith
  • Presbyterians as dissenters in Anglican Alexandria
  • Presbytery of BaltimorePeople: James Irwin
  • Presbytery of Washington CityPeople: David Ricketts
  • President Obama’s visit to Alexandria National Cemetery
  • Presidential Medal of FreedomPeople: John L. Lewis
  • Preston Family Cemetery
  • Preston Plantation
  • Prettyman hose reel (1858)People: James W. Keene; Robert Prettyman
  • Prettyman hose-reel carriagePeople: Captain Benjamin Thomas; Robert F. Prettyman; James W. Keene
  • Price, Birch & Co.People: Robert Young
  • Prince Rupert, British ColumbiaPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Princeton, Battle of (1777)People: Dr. James Craik; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Cavan Boa
  • Princeton Day SchoolPeople: Thomson Francis Mason
  • Princeton, New JerseyPeople: Jonathan Swift
  • Princeton University (College of New Jersey)People: Philip Richard Fendall II; Dr. William Ramsay, Jr.; Thomson Francis Mason
  • Prisoners of warPeople: Alfred Whiting; Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Prohibition
  • Prohibition in Virginia (1915)People: Robert Downham
  • Prospect Hill Cemetery (Essex, Connecticut)People: Albert Gladwin
  • ProstitutionPeople: Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms
  • Provisional Confederate CongressPeople: James Murray Mason
  • Public Buildings AdministrationPeople: Charles Goodman
  • Puebla, Siege of (1847)People: General Thomas Childs
  • Pulaski disaster (1838)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Pulaski (steamboat)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Pursuit and death of John Wilkes Booth (1865)People: Peter Carroll; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Christopher Farley

Q

  • Quaker Burial Ground (Queen Street)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; William Hartshorne; Benjamin Shreve Jr.; William Stabler; John Butcher; John Saunders
  • Quaker burial ground (South St. Asaph Street)
  • Quaker Meeting House (600 Wolfe Street)
  • Quakers (Society of Friends)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; William Hartshorne; William Stabler; John Lloyd; Edward Stabler; Capt. John Harper
  • Quander RoadPeople: Julia Quander
  • Quarantine and public health in the Port of AlexandriaPeople: Dr. Henry Rose
  • Quartermaster DepartmentPeople: Carroll; Huntington; Farley; Gosnell; Peter Carroll; Samuel Gosnell; George Huntington; Christopher Farley
  • Quasi-War with FrancePeople: Andrew Jamieson; John McKnight; Dr. James Craik
  • Quebec, Battle of (1775)People: Pierre LaCroix
  • Queen Victoria and the Jamieson crackersPeople: Andrew Jamieson; Robert B. Jamieson

R

  • R. E. Lee Camp, United Confederate VeteransPeople: George Duffey; Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Racial violence in AlexandriaPeople: Joseph McCoy; Benjamin Thomas
  • Railroads in AlexandriaPeople: Samuel Richard Johnston; Francis Lee Smith, Jr.
  • Ramsay AlleyPeople: William Ramsay
  • Ramsay HousePeople: Colonel Dennis Ramsay; William Ramsay; Rebecca Ramsay Reese
  • Ramsay’s WharfPeople: Andrew Jamieson
  • Ratification of the U.S. ConstitutionPeople: Capt. William Ladd; Abraham Faw
  • Ravensworth tractPeople: John Lloyd
  • “Rebellious scoundrels” (1774)
  • Rebuilding of the U.S. Capitol after 1814People: Philip Richard Fendall II
  • Recaptured AfricansPeople: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel
  • Receiving vaults
  • ReconstructionPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Rev. George Washington Parker; Captain James Montgomery Stuart
  • Rediscovery of Freedmen’s Cemetery (1996)
  • Rediscovery of George Gilpin’s grave (2024)People: Col. George Gilpin
  • Rediscovery of lost gravesPeople: Charles Glasscock; Col. George Gilpin; Colonel George Gilpin; Robert Adam; John Dundas; Captain David Black; Philip Richard Fendall I
  • ReintermentPeople: Philip Richard Fendall I; Shadrack Murphy; John Cooley; Capt. Julius Adolphus De Lagnel; Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel; Emily Edmonson; Private Adolphus Jacobs; Reverend Bryan Fairfax; James Robert Young Fendall; Elizabeth Steptoe Lee; Mary “Mollie” Lee; Virginia Mason and 10 more
  • Reliance Fire CompanyPeople: George W. Petty
  • Relief Fire CompanyPeople: James Wilson; Captain William Harper; James Irwin; Joseph Dean; Captain David Black; Daniel Douglass; William Newton; Thomas Vowell; William Bartleman; William Hodgson; Andrew Wales; Samuel Craig and 5 more
  • Relief Hook and Ladder CompanyPeople: James M. Steuart; Park Agnew
  • Religious dissenters in colonial Virginia
  • Religious freedomPeople: Colin McIver; Peter Wise; Andrew Wales; George Hunter; Washington Blunt; William Hunter; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Dennis McCarty Johnston; James Irwin; John Dundas
  • Relocation of Washington’s remains to the new tomb (1831)
  • Remember the TitansPeople: Julius Campbell; Julius Campbell Jr.; William Yoast
  • Removal of Confederate remains from Alexandria National Cemetery (1879)People: John H. Thompson
  • Republic of TexasPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Republican PartyPeople: Park Agnew; Rev. Fields Cook; George Lewis Seaton
  • Repurposed and lost gravestones
  • Resaca de la Palma, Battle of (1846)People: General Thomas Childs
  • Residence Act (1790)
  • Restored Government of VirginiaPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • Retrocession of Alexandria to Virginia (1846)People: Major Robert Brockett; Hugh C. Smith; Edgar Snowden, Sr.; Moses Hepburn; Nathaniel Seton Wise
  • Return of the Presbyterian Cemetery to the Meeting House (1999)People: William Randolph Sengel
  • Revenue Cutter AlgonquinPeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Revolutionary WarPeople: Dr. James Craik; Major Samuel Cooper; John Pipsico; John Carlyle; Lewis Nicola; Col. George Gilpin; Colonel George Gilpin; Joseph Harris; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Col. Dennis Ramsay; William Ramsay; Cavan Boa and 54 more
  • Revolutionary War patriot plaque errorsPeople: Captain Charles McKnight; Robert Young; Francis Peyton; George Gustavus Fugitt; Joseph Dean; William Bartleman
  • Revolutionary War patriot plaque (Old Presbyterian Meeting House)People: Thomas Porter
  • Revolutionary War pensionsPeople: John Pipsico; Lawrence Hurdle
  • Revolutionary War veterans plaque (Presbyterian Cemetery)People: Dr. Henry Rose; James Irwin; William Newton
  • Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
  • Reynolds AffairPeople: The Female Stranger
  • Rhode IslandPeople: Capt. William Ladd; Sarah Gardner Ladd; Dr. Joseph Brown Ladd
  • Rhode Island ratification of the U.S. Constitution (1790)People: Captain William Ladd
  • Rich Mountain, Battle of (1861)People: Julius Adolphus De Lagnel
  • Richmond Theatre fire (1811)People: Thomson Francis Mason
  • Richmond, VirginiaPeople: Rev. Fields Cook; Constance Cary Harrison
  • Riggs BankPeople: Sarah Scott Tracy
  • River Farm
  • Robert Adam & CompanyPeople: Robert Adam
  • Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home (607 Oronoco Street)People: John Lloyd
  • Robert E. Lee FoundationPeople: Charles Edward Stuart
  • Robert E. Lee offered command of Virginia’s forces (1861)People: Cassius Francis Lee, Sr.; Harriotte Lee Taliaferro; Sydney Smith Lee; Ann Harriotte Lee Lloyd
  • Robert Portner Brewing CompanyPeople: John Johnson, Jr.
  • Robert Young & Co.People: Philip Richard Fendall Sr.
  • Roberts Memorial United Methodist ChurchPeople: Rev. Richard H. Lyles; Moses Hepburn
  • Rolling roads and tobacco hogsheadsPeople: Robert Rollins Fowle
  • Ropemaking and ropewalksPeople: Captain William Harper; James Irwin
  • Rosebud, Battle of the (1876)
  • Rosenberg spy case
  • Rosina Fortney House (207 North Royal Street)People: Jacob Fortney; Rosina Fortney
  • Rostrum (Alexandria National Cemetery)
  • Rural (garden) cemetery movement

S

  • Safeguard (galley)People: Benjamin Chapin
  • Sailor’s Creek, Battle of (1865)People: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Saint John, New BrunswickPeople: Frances Ansley Cazenove
  • Salem (steamship)People: Joseph Bruin
  • Salvation ArmyPeople: Joseph H. Young
  • Sand Point Flying Field (Seattle)People: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Sandusky, OhioPeople: William Hartshorne
  • Sandusky treaty negotiationsPeople: William Hartshorne
  • Santa Fe TrailPeople: Richard Bland Lee
  • SAR grave marking ceremony (March 16, 2024)People: Robert Adam; John Dundas; Captain David Black
  • Saratoga and Yorktown prisonersPeople: Abraham Faw
  • Saratoga, Battle of (1777)People: Dennis Johnson (also Johnston)
  • Sarepta HallPeople: Joseph H. Young
  • Satterlee General Hospital (Philadelphia)
  • Saturn V rocket and Apollo 11People: Wernher von Braun
  • Savannah, GeorgiaPeople: Rev. James T. Johnston; Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Scarlet feverPeople: Louis Cazenove
  • School integration in AlexandriaPeople: Julius Campbell, Jr.
  • Scotch pine memorial treesPeople: Ann McCarty Ball Ramsay; William Ramsay
  • ScotlandPeople: Dr. James Craik; William Bartleman; John Carlyle; William Ramsay; James Wilson; William Hunter; Robert Adam; Dr. Robert Creighton; William Gregory; Rev. James Muir; Rev. Dr. James Muir; William Gregory III and 14 more
  • Scottish Christmas WalkPeople: William McKnight
  • Seattle (aircraft)People: Alva Lee Harvey
  • Seattle crash in Alaska (1924)People: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Seattle World Cruiser Project (Seattle II)People: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Second Brigade, District of Columbia MilitiaPeople: Robert Young
  • Second Confiscation Act (1862)
  • Second Continental CongressPeople: George Washington
  • Second Legion, District of Columbia MilitiaPeople: Dr. Henry Rose
  • Second Presbyterian burial ground (Philadelphia)People: Andrew Thomas Kennedy
  • Second Presbyterian ChurchPeople: Dr. William Harper; Joseph Hazel Newell; John Adam (1781-1843); Josiah Hewes Davis; Mary Donaldson Long Gregory; Alexander D. F. Perry; David Ricketts; John C. Vowell; Thomas Vowell; George Wise; Robert B. Jamieson; Josiah Stickley Everly and 2 more
  • Second Seminole WarPeople: Samuel Cooper; Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel; Richard Bland Lee
  • SegregationPeople: Private Shadrach Murphy; Paul Sandridge
  • Selma (near Winchester)People: James Murray Mason
  • Selma to Montgomery marchesPeople: William Randolph Sengel
  • Seminole WarsPeople: General Thomas Childs; Abraham Charles Myers
  • Seven Days’ Battles (1862)People: Heath John Brent; Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Seven Pines, Battle of (1862)People: Montgomery Dent Corse; Robert Knox
  • Shenandoah Valley
  • Shepherdstown, Battle of (1862)
  • Shiloh Baptist ChurchPeople: Benjamin Thomas
  • ShrinersPeople: E.E. Downham
  • Shriners and Knights TemplarPeople: Robert Downham; Emanuel Ethelbert Downham
  • Shuter’s HillPeople: Benjamin Dulany
  • Shuter’s Hill CemeteryPeople: Anne Lee; Flora Lee; Benjamin Tasker Delany; Benjamin Dulany; Col. Henry Rozier Dulany; Colonel Henry Rozier Dulany
  • Sickel HospitalPeople: Robert Marshman
  • Sickles BarracksPeople: John H. Thompson
  • Silver Leaf (Colored) Society
  • Silversmiths of AlexandriaPeople: John Adam (1775-1848); Adam Lynn, Jr.; Major George Duffey
  • Sinclair and Agnew Gas and Coal Co.People: Park Agnew
  • Sing Sing PrisonPeople: The Female Stranger
  • Sketches of Liberia (1850)People: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel
  • Skull and bones (gravestone symbol)People: Pascoe children
  • Slaters LanePeople: John Slater
  • Slave pens on Duke Street (1315 and 1707 Duke Street)
  • Slave tradePeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • SlaveryPeople: Caroline Branham; Joseph Bruin; Joseph Harris; Samuel Cooper; James Murray Mason; Edmund Jennings Lee I; Dr. James Craik; Julia Quander; Hugh Smith; Joseph Dean; Rev. James Muir; Robert Young and 44 more
  • Slough General HospitalPeople: Theodore Hyder; William L. Phillips
  • Smallpox
  • Smallpox inoculation facility at Jones PointPeople: James Lawrason
  • Smallpox inoculation of Continental recruits at Alexandria (1777)People: James Lawrason; James Antony (Anthony); Jesse Whitfield; William Warren; William Posey (Josey); Edward Robinson; William Cooper; John Winburn; Benjamin Pike; Marmaduke Hodge; Jacob Brewer; Benjamin Thomas and 11 more
  • Smithland PlantationPeople: Sydney Smith Lee
  • Smoot Lumber Company
  • Smoot Lumber fire (1909)
  • Smuggling through Union linesPeople: Caroline Matilde Johnson
  • Snowden House (619 South Lee Street)People: Thomas Vowell; Edgar Snowden, Sr.
  • Snowden SchoolPeople: Rosier Lyles
  • Soap and candle making (chandlers)People: Alexander D. F. Perry; Daniel F. Perry
  • Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
  • Society for the Promotion of Useful KnowledgePeople: Thomas Porter
  • Society for the Restoration of Historic AlexandriaPeople: Kosciusko Kemper
  • Society of the CincinnatiPeople: Colonel Charles Simms Sr.; Andrew Wales; John Westcott; Lewis Nicola; Dr. James Craik; Hugh Smith; Captain William Ladd; Capt. William Ladd; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Andrew Fleming; James Irwin; Adam Lynn Jr.
  • Soldiers Memorial (Litchfield, Connecticut)People: Watson Parmalee
  • Sons of LibertyPeople: Major Samuel Cooper; Robert I. Taylor
  • Sons of the American RevolutionPeople: Major Samuel Cooper; Dr. James Craik; Abraham Faw; John Longden; John Sloan; William Newton; Lawrence Hurdle
  • Sons of the American Revolution (Fairfax Resolves and George Washington Chapters)People: Robert Adam; John Dundas; Captain David Black
  • Sons of the American Revolution, George Washington Chapter
  • Sortie from Fort Erie (1814)People: General Thomas Childs
  • South AmericaPeople: Dr. Robert Conrad Powell
  • South Cornerstone of the District of Columbia (Jones Point)People: Rev. James Muir
  • South Mountain, Battle of (1862)People: Montgomery Dent Corse; George Fermane; Alton Hawkes
  • Southern Campaign (Revolutionary War)People: John Pipsico
  • Southern Department of the Continental ArmyPeople: James Lawrason
  • Southern RailwayPeople: David Williams
  • Southern Unionists in AlexandriaPeople: William L. Phillips; Lewis McKenzie
  • Soviet UnionPeople: William Wolf Weisband
  • Spanish influenza epidemic (1918)
  • Spanish-American WarPeople: Lucy Mariah Graves; Frank Stringfellow; Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Stringfellow
  • Spite House (523 Queen Street)People: John Wesley Hollensbury
  • Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of (1864)People: Martin Swick
  • Spring BankPeople: George W. Mason
  • Spring Bank fire (1878)People: George W. Mason
  • Spring Garden FarmPeople: Christina D. J. Copper Marsteller; George Gilpin; William Burton Richards; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; John Mandeville; George Kilton; Christiana D. J. Cooper Marsteller; Philip Godhelp Marsteller
  • St. Andrew’s Society of AlexandriaPeople: William Hunter; Captain David Black; William Bartleman; Dr. Henry Rose; Robert Young; James Irwin; John Adam (1781-1843); William Hunter, Jr.; William Ramsay; William McKnight; Robert Anderson; Robert Nash and 3 more
  • St. Clement’s Island
  • St. John the Apostle Day (Masonic observance)
  • St. Louis, MissouriPeople: Captain James Montgomery Stuart
  • St. Mary’s Catholic CemeteryPeople: Cavan Boa; John Roach; Francis Ignatius Hagan; Lawrence Hurdle; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Pierre LaCroix; Francis Murphy; Jeremiah Simpson; John Riordan; Robert Townshend Hooe; Jane Digges; William Henry Greenwell and 5 more
  • St. Mary’s Catholic Church (Basilica of Saint Mary)People: Colonel John Fitzgerald; George Whalen; John Park Agnew
  • St. Mary’s ChapelPeople: William Henry McKnight
  • St. Mary’s County, MarylandPeople: Charles Lloyd Neale
  • St. Patrick’s Day dinner (1788)People: Colonel John Fitzgerald
  • St. Paul’s CemeteryPeople: Wilmer McLean; The Female Stranger; Adam Lynn Jr.; Mary Lloyd Fawcett; Dr. Holmes Offley Paulding; Abraham Myers; General Thomas Childs; Rev. James T. Johnston; Rev. George H. Norton; Montgomery Dent Corse; Lawrence Hooff Sr.; Peter Tatsapaugh and 25 more
  • St. Paul’s Church building (Latrobe design)
  • St. Paul’s Episcopal ChurchPeople: Rev. James T. Johnston; Wilmer McLean; Rev. George H. Norton; Edward L. Daingerfield; Robert Knox; Adam Lynn, Jr.; The Female Stranger; Rosena Fortney; Robert Young; Philip Godhelp Marsteller; William Eaches “Willie” Fendall; Major Robert Brockett and 1 more
  • Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary MuseumPeople: William Gregory Leadbeater; Thomas Boyd Leadbeater; Rebecca Ramsay Reese; Josiah Hewes Davis; William Stabler; Edward Stabler; John Leadbeater
  • Stafford CountyPeople: Caroline Matilde Johnson
  • Stamp Act
  • Star Fire CompanyPeople: William Evans; J. Carson Greene; George David Appich; George Plain; Robert Taylor; John Roach; Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Star Magnolia (Presbyterian Cemetery)
  • Steam fire enginesPeople: Frank Entwisle; Joseph H. Young
  • Steamboat Acts of 1838 and 1852People: Lt. Col. John Fowle
  • Steamboats and steamshipsPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Storm of 1912People: John Slater
  • Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, ScotlandPeople: William Bartleman
  • Strand (Alexandria waterfront), ThePeople: Josiah Hewes Davis
  • Stratford HallPeople: Anna Maria Mason Lee; Philip Richard Fendall I; Charles Edward Stuart
  • Strathblane (Gregory estate)People: Janet “Jessie” Boyd Gregory Leadbeater; Mary Gregory Crauford Powell; William Gregory III; Dr. William Bartleman Gregory
  • Strawberry Hill (Hartshorne farm)People: William Hartshorne
  • Streight’s Raid (1863)People: William L. Phillips
  • Stuartland (Seminary Hill)People: Harriet E. Stuart; Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart; Louis Cazenove, Jr.; Harriot E. Stuart Cazenove
  • Stump HillPeople: Hugh Smith
  • Sugar House (111 North Alfred Street)People: Hugh C. Smith
  • SuicidePeople: Mary Ann Steiner Faw; Captain Benjamin Thomas; Colonel Benjamin Thomas; Francis Avery Reed
  • Sully PlantationPeople: William Hodgson; Francis Lightfoot Lee II; Francis Lightfoot Lee; Richard Bland Lee; Portia Lee Hodgson; Portia Lee
  • Sultana
  • Sultana disaster (1865)
  • Summer Hill (Cazenove estate)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Summers Family CemeteryPeople: Francis Summers; John Summers
  • Sun Fire CompanyPeople: John Carlyle; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; George Deneale; Colin McIver; David Arell; Robert Allison Sr.; Jesse Taylor; George Hunter; George W. Petty; William Herbert; Robert B. Jamieson; William Hodgson and 9 more
  • Superintendent of ContrabandsPeople: Albert Gladwin; James Inglish Ferree
  • Superintendent of Indian TradePeople: General John Mason
  • Superintendent’s Lodge (Alexandria National Cemetery)
  • Surrender towelPeople: Wilmer McLean
  • Suspected Loyalists arrested (1777)People: William Hepburn; Andrew Wales
  • Sutherlin House (Danville)People: Janie L. Sutherlin Smith
  • Swift AlleyPeople: Jonathan Swift
  • Swiss consulatePeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • SwitzerlandPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove

T

  • Table-style gravestonesPeople: Sarah “Sally” Fairfax Carlyle
  • TahitiPeople: Thomas Tretcher
  • TailoringPeople: Cavan Boa; Margaret Robinson
  • Tartar (ship)People: Benjamin Chapin
  • TavernsPeople: John Wise Sr.
  • Taylor-Fraser HousePeople: Jesse Taylor
  • T.C. Williams High School (Alexandria City High School)People: Julius Campbell; Julius Campbell, Jr.; William Yoast
  • T.C. Williams High School integration and the 1971 TitansPeople: Julius Campbell, Jr.; William Yoast; Julius Campbell
  • Tea Act (1773)People: Thomas Porter
  • Temperance SocietyPeople: Robert B. Jamieson
  • TennesseePeople: Harriet Perry Stanton; Sarah Perry Wilbar
  • Terrett Family Cemetery
  • TexasPeople: Samuel B. Carson; Captain James Montgomery Stuart; Alva Lee Harvey; Abraham C. Myers; Marion Isabelle Twiggs
  • Texas RevolutionPeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • “The Marines’ Hymn”People: Colonel Archibald Henderson; Paulina Cazenove Henderson
  • “The Star-Spangled Banner”
  • TheaterPeople: Anne Brunton Warren
  • Theodore Roosevelt Island (Analostan Island)People: James Murray Mason; General John Mason
  • Theodosia Burr Alston theoryPeople: The Female Stranger
  • Thespian SocietyPeople: James Douglass
  • Third Baptist ChurchPeople: Rev. Fields Cook
  • Third Division General HospitalPeople: James Luman; Edwin Bentley
  • Third Virginia Convention (1775)
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • Thomas Jefferson’s visit to Alexandria (1801)People: Captain William Harper
  • Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730
  • Tobacco proclamation of Charles I (1631)
  • Tobacco tradePeople: John Summers
  • Toleration Act (1689)
  • Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American RevolutionPeople: Mary Gregory Crauford Powell; Eleanor Washington Howard
  • TongaPeople: Thomas Tretcher
  • Torthorwald (Morven)People: Courtland Hawkins Smith, Sr.
  • Town of PotomacPeople: James Herrell Rollins Jr.; John Lee Rollins
  • Townshend duties
  • Transatlantic slave tradePeople: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898)People: Minna Simms; Aida Lester Simms
  • Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)People: Philip Richard Fendall I; Philip Richard Fendall Sr.; Philip Richard Fendall
  • Treaty of Fort Laramie
  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)People: Nicholas Trist
  • Treaty of Paris (1783)
  • Trent Affair (1861)People: James Murray Mason; Charles Wilkes; Donald MacNeil Fairfax
  • Trent (RMS Trent)People: James Murray Mason; Charles Wilkes
  • Trenton, Battle of (1776)People: Captain William Harper; Major Samuel Cooper; Colonel John Fitzgerald; Cavan Boa
  • Tretcher and Lohman lost on Christmas Island (1777)People: Thomas Tretcher
  • Trial of John Brown (1859)People: Colonel Charles Edward Stuart
  • Trinity United Methodist CemeteryPeople: Abraham Faw; George Lewis Seaton; John Wesley Hollensbury; James Campbell; John Longden; John Potter; John Sloan; Joseph Smith; Robert Going Lanphier; William Patterson; Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel; Captain John McCobb and 7 more
  • Trinity United Methodist Church
  • Troy Seminary (Emma Willard School)People: Sarah Scott Tracy
  • Truman Boyles Mattress Factory fire (1958)People: Leo E. Moore
  • Truro Parish
  • Tuberculosis (consumption)People: Dr. Robert Creighton; Mary Edmonson; Margaret “Peggy” Harper Vowell; Robert Young; Robert Allison, Sr.; Ann Nancy Russell; Mary Vowell
  • Twentieth Air ForcePeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • Twin House (209-211 North Fairfax Street)People: Jonah Thompson
  • Typhoid feverPeople: Jean Robertson Elliot

U

  • Uncle Tom’s CabinPeople: Joseph Bruin; Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson
  • Underground RailroadPeople: Gottlieb Appich; Townsend Derricks
  • Union army firefighting in Alexandria (Civil War)
  • Union CemeteryPeople: Gladys Quander Tancil; George Lewis Seaton; Julia Hollensbury; L. Peyton Chauncey; Rev. George Washington Parker; James Franklin Peyton; William Henry Lambert; Capt. Ebenezer Bacon
  • Union Hill (Fairfax County)People: Dr. Henry Rose
  • Union occupation of Alexandria (1861)People: Francis Lee Smith; Joseph H. Young; Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth; Lewis McKenzie; George Dashiell Fowle; William Holmes Fowle; Colonel Charles Edward Stuart; Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart; Francis Lee Smith, Sr.; Francis Lee Smith, Jr.; James Green
  • Union occupation of Alexandria (1861-1865)People: The Reverend Elias Harrison; Colonel Philip Marsteller; Francis Lee Smith Sr.; Colonel Charles Edward Stuart
  • Union (packet ship)People: Mary Edmonson; Emily Edmonson; Joseph Bruin
  • Uniontown, Pennsylvania glass worksPeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Unitarian Church in Arlington (1964)People: Charles Goodman
  • United Daughters of the ConfederacyPeople: Dolly Genevieve Shepperson
  • United Mine Workers of AmericaPeople: John L. Lewis
  • United States CapitolPeople: Reverend James Muir, D.D.; Charles Lloyd Neale
  • United States Colored TroopsPeople: Shadrack Murphy; John Cooley; Adolphus Jacobs; Paul Sandridge; Tobias Trout; Alfred Whiting; Francis Lee Smith
  • United States Marine CorpsPeople: Philip Richard Fendall III; Paulina Cazenove Henderson; Archibald Murray Henderson; John Twiggs Myers
  • United States Military Academy (West Point)People: Samuel Cooper; General Thomas Childs; Lt. Col. John Fowle; Lt. John Fowle; Captain Julius Adolphus De Lagnel; Richard Bland Lee; Edmond Jennings Lloyd; Nicholas Trist
  • United States Military RailroadPeople: Charles W. Needham
  • United States Naval AcademyPeople: Philip Richard Fendall III
  • United States NavyPeople: John Thomas Newton
  • United States SenatePeople: James Murray Mason
  • United States SharpshootersPeople: George Fermane
  • United States v. Lee (1882)People: Francis Lee Smith Jr.; Francis Lee Smith; George Dashiell Fowle; Philip Richard Fendall II; Francis Lee Smith, Sr.; Samuel Fergusson Beach
  • University of EdinburghPeople: Dr. James Craik
  • University of PennsylvaniaPeople: Dr. Robert Conrad Powell; Dr. Henry Rose; James Murray Mason
  • University of VirginiaPeople: Kosciusko Kemper
  • Unmarked African American graves
  • Unmarked gravesPeople: Robert Adam; Philip Richard Fendall I; Joseph Harris; John Pipsico; Caroline Branham; George Lewis Seaton
  • U.S. Army Air ServicePeople: Colonel Alva Lee Harvey
  • U.S. Army Signal CorpsPeople: William Wolf Weisband
  • U.S. CongressPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • U.S. House of RepresentativesPeople: James M. Steuart
  • U.S. House tribute to Washington (“Our Washington is no more!”)
  • U.S. Navy Africa SquadronPeople: Dr. James Washington Lugenbeel
  • U.S. Patent OfficePeople: John Paton Fleming
  • U.S. Quartermaster DepartmentPeople: Peter Carroll; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Christopher Farley
  • U.S. Steam Fire Department (Alexandria)People: Peter Carroll; Samuel N. Gosnell; George W. Huntington; Christopher Farley
  • U.S. Zouave CadetsPeople: Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth
  • USS Argus
  • USS Columbia
  • USS ConstitutionPeople: Colonel Archibald Henderson; Paulina Cazenove Henderson
  • USS Cumberland
  • USS DolphinPeople: Hiram Paulding
  • USS Essex
  • USS HornetPeople: John Thomas Newton
  • USS Hornet vs. HMS Peacock (1813)People: John Thomas Newton
  • USS LevantPeople: Hiram Paulding
  • USS Mississippi (1841)People: Sydney Smith Lee
  • USS Missouri (1841)People: John Thomas Newton
  • USS Missouri at Gibraltar, Burning of the (1843)People: John Thomas Newton
  • USS MonitorPeople: Hiram Paulding
  • USS Paulding (DD-22)People: Hiram Paulding
  • USS San JacintoPeople: James Murray Mason; Charles Wilkes
  • USS SharkPeople: Hiram Paulding

V

  • V-2 rocketsPeople: Wernher von Braun
  • Valley ForgePeople: Captain William Harper; Sgt. Thomas Simms; Major Henry Piercy; William Reynolds
  • Vaucluse (Craik estate)People: Dr. James Craik
  • Vaucluse family cemeteryPeople: Dr. James Craik
  • Vaucluse (Seminary Hill)People: Dr. James Craik; William Yeaton; Constance Cary Harrison
  • Venona ProjectPeople: William Wolf Weisband
  • Veracruz, Siege of (1847)People: Sydney Smith Lee; General Thomas Childs
  • Verdiersville, Raid at (1862)People: Caroline Matilde Johnson
  • Veteran Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps)People: Lewis Nicola; Nehemiah Metlock
  • Veterans Memorial Grove Cemetery (Napa County, California)People: James Inglish Ferree
  • Victorian flower language
  • Vietnam War
  • Village of WestPeople: Sybil West Carlyle
  • Virginia & South Carolina Companies of ComediansPeople: Thomas Wade West
  • Virginia Colored GuardsPeople: Nathaniel Bell
  • Virginia Company
  • Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829People: Thomson Francis Mason
  • Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902People: Francis Lee Smith, Jr.
  • Virginia Continental LinePeople: Dennis Ramsay
  • Virginia Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer (1774)
  • Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)People: General John Mason
  • Virginia Department of Historic Resources
  • Virginia General Assembly
  • Virginia Historic LandmarkPeople: George Lewis Seaton
  • Virginia House of DelegatesPeople: George Lewis Seaton; Charles Bendheim; William Gardner Cazenove; James Albert English; Lewis McKenzie
  • Virginia Midland RailroadPeople: James Franklin Peyton
  • Virginia Military InstitutePeople: Colonel Francis Lee Smith, Jr.; Dr. Robert Conrad Powell
  • Virginia Militia (War of 1812)People: Captain John Harper; Dr. John Richards; Isaac Robbins; Joseph Harris; Peter Mallard Gregory; Robert B. Roberts; Robert W. Hunter; William C. Gardiner
  • Virginia RegimentPeople: Dr. James Craik
  • Virginia secession (1861)People: William Gardner Cazenove
  • Virginia State Capitol disaster (1870)People: Montgomery Dent Corse
  • Virginia State NavyPeople: Benjamin Chapin; John Muir
  • Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
  • Virginia Theological SeminaryPeople: Frank Stringfellow; Rev. Thomas E. Locke; Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow; Samuel Cooper; Harriot E. Stuart Cazenove; Harriot E. Tuberville Stuart
  • Virginia Theological Seminary Cemetery
  • Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Volunteer fire companies of AlexandriaPeople: William Evans; George O. Plain; G. David Appich; Captain Benjamin Thomas; James Wilson; Daniel Douglass; George Hunter; Jesse Taylor; David Arell; John Carlyle; Robert Allison Sr.; Captain William Harper and 12 more
  • Voting rights and disfranchisementPeople: Fields Cook
  • Vowell’s Wharf (Prince and Union Streets)People: Thomas Vowell; Captain David Black

W

  • WalesPeople: Captain Benjamin Thomas; Colonel Benjamin Thomas
  • Wales Alley and the Wales HousePeople: Andrew Wales
  • Wanderer (slave ship)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar; Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • Wanderer trialPeople: Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
  • War DepartmentPeople: James Hooff
  • War Eagle Tribe No. 22People: Robert I. Taylor
  • War of 1812People: Robert Allison Jr.; Robert Young; John Thomas Newton; General John Mason; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Captain Charles McKnight; Dr. James Carson; Joseph Dean; Anthony Charles Cazenove; Samuel Bowen; William Bartleman; Rev. James Muir and 23 more
  • War of 1812 government loans (war bonds)People: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • War of 1812 SocietyPeople: Robert Allison, Jr.
  • Warburton ManorPeople: Colonel John Fitzgerald; Jane Digges
  • Ware Episcopal Church Cemetery (Gloucester)People: Thomas Seddon Taliaferro
  • Warrenton, VirginiaPeople: Mary Long Derricks; James Albert English; Kosciusko Kemper; Robert Knox
  • Washington, Alexandria & Mount Vernon Railway
  • Washington and Alexandria Turnpike
  • Washington appointed Commander in Chief (1775)People: George Washington
  • Washington Arsenal
  • Washington ArtilleryPeople: Samuel Boush
  • Washington, Burning of (1814)People: Philip Richard Fendall II; Rev. James Muir; General John Mason; Paul Jennings; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Washington elected President (1789)People: George Washington
  • Washington family vault (Mount Vernon)
  • Washington Fire Department
  • Washington MonumentPeople: Philip Richard Fendall II; Philip Richard Fendall
  • Washington Monument State Park (Boonsboro)
  • Washington National CathedralPeople: Catherine Cooper Reardon
  • Washington Navy YardPeople: Michael Shiner; Hiram Paulding; Benjamin M. Aitcheson
  • Washington PostPeople: Dolly Genevieve Shepperson
  • Washington SenatorsPeople: Jim Aloysius Shaw
  • Washington Society of AlexandriaPeople: Thomas Porter; Hugh Smith; Thomas Vowell
  • Washington Street
  • Washington Street United Methodist ChurchPeople: Robert Henry Robinson
  • Washington tornado and storm (August 25, 1814)
  • Washington’s coffinPeople: Joseph Ingle
  • Washington’s farewell at Wise’s Tavern (1789)People: Colonel Dennis Ramsay; William Ramsay Jr.; George Washington; John Wise Sr.
  • Washington’s funeral (1799)People: Dr. James Craik; Robert Young; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; William Herbert; Col. George Gilpin; Colonel George Gilpin; Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Rev. James Muir; Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir; Rev. Dr. James Muir; George Deneale and 21 more
  • Washington’s last birthday celebration (1799)People: Captain William Harper; Samuel Hilton; Jonathan Swift; Philip Gotthelp Marsteller; Robert Young; William McKnight; John Dundas
  • Washington’s last review of troopsPeople: Captain Charles McKnight
  • Washington’s Ohio country expedition (1770)People: Dr. James Craik
  • Washington’s pallbearersPeople: Col. George Gilpin
  • Washington’s Tomb (Mount Vernon)People: Dr. James Carson; William Yeaton; Anthony Charles Cazenove; George Deneale; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; George Wise
  • Waterfront fire (1810)People: Joseph Dean
  • Waterfront ship fire (1924)People: George Whalen
  • Watertown, MassachusettsPeople: Lt. Col. John Fowle
  • West Family Cemetery (Cameron)People: West Family; Colonel George West; Sybil Harrison West; Sybil West Carlyle
  • West Grove (Belle Haven)People: Samuel Richard Johnston; Dennis Johnston; George Johnston; Dr. Augustine J. Smith
  • West Grove, Burning of (1861)People: Samuel Richard Johnston; George Johnston
  • West IndiesPeople: The Female Stranger; Dr. James Craik; Will; John Harper; John Carlyle
  • West Point Cemetery
  • West Woods (Antietam)
  • Western Marine and Salvage CompanyPeople: George Whalen
  • Westwood Cemetery (Oberlin, Ohio)People: Mary Edmonson
  • Wheatley Funeral HomePeople: Josiah Stickley Everly
  • Whig Party convention of 1848People: Robert F. Prettyman
  • Whigs and Tories
  • Whiskey Rebellion (1794)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; LTC Philip Marsteller; Colonel Philip Marsteller
  • White HousePeople: Paul Jennings; Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth
  • White House, Battle of the (1814)People: Robert Allison Jr.; Robert Young; William Gregory; Samuel Bowen; Major Robert Brockett; William Gregory III; Dr. William Harper; Captain Charles McKnight; Robert Allison Sr.; Captain Robert Conway; Lawrence Hooff Jr.; Dr. James Carson and 3 more
  • White Lion
  • White Marsh (Gloucester County)People: Richard Bland Lee
  • White Sulphur Springs, West VirginiaPeople: William Gardner Cazenove
  • Wiesbaden, GermanyPeople: Abraham C. Myers; Marion Isabelle Twiggs
  • Wilderness, Battle of the (1864)People: William H. H. Marsh; Private Martin Swick
  • Wilkes County, Georgia and North CarolinaPeople: John Wilkes
  • Wilkes Street Cemetery ComplexPeople: James Murray Mason; Col. George Gilpin; Wilmer McLean; Robert Young; General John Mason; Sydney Smith Lee; Francis Lightfoot Lee II; Colonel Dennis Ramsay; Anthony Charles Cazenove; Robert Allison, Jr.; James Carson; Joseph Bruin and 32 more
  • Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex National Register nomination
  • Wilkes Street (named for John Wilkes)People: John Wilkes
  • Wilkes Street PotteryPeople: Hugh Smith; Thomas Smith
  • Wilkes Street Tunnel
  • Wilkes-Barre, PennsylvaniaPeople: John Wilkes
  • Willard HotelPeople: Marion Isabelle Twiggs
  • Willard Hotel fire (1861)People: Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth
  • William Ramsay’s funeral (1785)People: William Ramsay
  • William T. Hart (schooner)People: Park Agnew
  • Williamsburg, Battle of (1862)People: Charles Henry McKnight
  • Wilson’s Creek, Battle of (1861)
  • Wilton Hill (Frobel home, Franconia Road)People: Anne S. Frobel
  • Winchester market house lotteryPeople: William Ramsay
  • Wine tradePeople: Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Winsford, EnglandPeople: Captain Herbert Cornelius Graves
  • Wise’s Tavern (201 North Fairfax Street)People: Dennis Ramsay; George Duffey; George Washington; John Wise Sr.; Captain Henry Lyles
  • W&OD TrailPeople: Lewis McKenzie
  • Wolfe Street General HospitalPeople: George Parks; Francis Lee Smith
  • Women spies and smugglers of the Civil WarPeople: Caroline Matilde Johnson
  • Women’s suffragePeople: Dolly Genevieve Shepperson
  • Women’s voting and jury service in AlexandriaPeople: Josephine Diamond Hugh
  • Woodberry School (Madison)People: Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
  • Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)People: Martha Abercrombie Lugenbeel; Emily Lugenbeel
  • Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)People: Mary Long Derricks
  • Woodlawn Friends Meeting House CemeteryPeople: William Stabler
  • Woodlawn Plantation
  • Woodrow Wilson Bridge
  • Woodville, MississippiPeople: Joseph Riddle
  • World War IPeople: Captain Herbert Cornelius Graves; William Eaches “Willie” Fendall
  • World War IIPeople: Alva Lee Harvey; Wernher von Braun; William Gray “Bill” Fendall; William Wolf Weisband
  • Wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution
  • Wreaths Across America
  • Writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814)People: General John Mason; Brigadier General John Mason; Robert Young; Robert Allison Jr.; Samuel Bowen; Anthony Charles Cazenove
  • Wrought iron cemetery fences
  • Württemberg, GermanyPeople: Gottlieb Appich

X

  • XXV Corps (Army of the James)

Y

  • Yale UniversityPeople: Rev. James T. Johnston
  • Yeates GardenPeople: John Slater
  • Yeaton and ConwayPeople: Robert Conway
  • Yellow feverPeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; General Thomas Childs
  • Yellow fever epidemicPeople: George Deneale
  • Yellow fever epidemic (1773)People: Rev. William Thom; Mary Thom
  • Yellow fever epidemic (1793, Philadelphia)People: John McKnight
  • Yellow fever epidemic (1803)People: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick; Rev. Dr. James Muir; Reverend James Muir; Dr. James Muir; Anthony Charles Cazenove; David Graham; Washington Blunt; Pascoe children; George Kilton
  • Yellow fever epidemic (1855)People: Robert B. Jamieson
  • Yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans (1848)People: Mary Edmonson; Joseph Bruin; Emily Edmonson
  • Yellow fever quarantinePeople: Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick
  • Yellow Tavern, Battle of (1864)
  • Yonkers and Bronxville, New YorkPeople: Jean Robertson Elliot
  • York, Burning of (1813)
  • Yorkshire (McLean farm, Manassas)People: Wilmer McLean; Virginia Hooe Mason
  • Yorktown, Siege of (1781)People: Dr. James Craik; Major Henry Piercy; John Parke Custis
  • Yorktown, Siege of (1862)People: Andrew Fletcher Skidmore
  • Yorktown, Siege of (undated)People: Dr. James Craik

Z

  • Zavala (steamboat)People: Gazaway Bugg Lamar
  • Zion Episcopal Churchyard (Charles Town, West Virginia)People: Eleanor Washington Howard
  • Zouave regiments

This Alexandria history index is compiled from every page, story and timeline entry on Gravestone Stories, and new Alexandria history topics are added as the research continues. Battles and sieges are listed by place (“Little Bighorn, Battle of the”); searching works either way. People named on each entry are those the linked pages connect to that place or event; every person also has an entry in the Alexandria Genealogy Index. If you can add to an entry or correct one, please get in touch.

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