Guides & Books:
Take Alexandria’s History With You
Alexandria history guides for the walk and for the bookshelf: free brochures and walking maps to carry into the city’s historic burial grounds, and e-books that gather the research into editions you can keep.
Free Guides & Brochures
Nine free guides to carry into the cemeteries: the tour brochure, walking maps of the Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex and Alexandria National Cemetery, research guides to the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the city’s firefighters, and the companions to each walking tour.
Browse the Free GuidesThe E-Book Library
Eleven book-length editions of the research, with designed pages, featured stories and complete registries you can read offline, print, search or give. From the illustrated introduction to Alexandria’s burial grounds to volumes on individual cemeteries, each arrives as a PDF the moment you check out.
Browse the E-Book LibraryJust took a tour with us? Your copy of the Walking Companion is free. Use the code printed in your tour brochure or on your thank-you card: get the Walking Companion.
Every Free Alexandria History Guide
Each one opens to its own page, with the full description and a free PDF download.
- The Gravestone Stories Tour BrochureAll four walking tours in one tri-fold
- The Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex: A Self-Guided Walking MapEleven notable graves keyed A–K
- Walking Tour of Alexandria National CemeteryEight stops among the Union dead
- Among the Founders: Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in AlexandriaThe 162-patriot registry in brochure form
- War of 1812 Buried in the Wilkes Street Cemetery ComplexAll 59 veterans, by burial ground
- Where Alexandria’s Firefighters RestTwenty-nine firefighters, by burial ground
- Rebellious Scoundrels: The Patriots of Alexandria’s Presbyterian Meeting HouseWalking tour companion
- From Enslavement to Justice: How African Americans Forced Change in AlexandriaWalking tour companion
- The Cemetery Stories of the Lee-Fendall HouseGuided tour companion
Tracing a family? The Alexandria Family Trees have their own page, with every tree free to view online or print. Looking for one person, place or event? Search the Alexandria Genealogy Index or the Alexandria History Index.
Every E-Book
Each title opens its listing on Payhip, our secure checkout, where you can see the pages and buy. The research behind every book stays free on this site.
- A Guide to Alexandria’s Historic Cemeteries & Burial Grounds29 pages · pay what you want, $5 minimum
- The Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex: A Walking Companion29 pages · $15 · free for tour guests
- The Presbyterian Cemetery: Lives Behind the Stones131 pages · $12
- Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in Alexandria42 pages · $9
- War of 1812 Veterans Buried in Alexandria23 pages · $9
- The Old Presbyterian Meeting House Burial Ground53 pages · $9
- Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery: Lives Behind the Stones51 pages · $9
- St. Paul’s Episcopal Cemetery: Lives Behind the Stones29 pages · $9
- Alexandria National Cemetery: Civil War & USCT Heroes55 pages · $9
- Faith & Burial in Early Alexandria38 pages · $9
- Symbols & Superstitions: Reading Alexandria’s Gravestones19 pages · $9
The Guides Show You Where.
The Tours Tell You Why.
Every guide and book here grew out of the research behind our walking tours. For the full stories, and the discoveries that never fit on a page, join us in the cemeteries.