Join the Superintendent of The Presbyterian Cemetery on a guided walking tour through the Wilkes Street Cemeteries while hearing the true stories about those whose lives were sometimes stranger than […]
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Alexandria’s Mysterious Female Stranger In September of 1816, a couple arrived in Alexandria after a voyage from the West Indies, boarding at Gadsby’s Tavern. The woman, adorned in a black […]
Wreaths Across America will be at Alexandria National Cemetery on Saturday December 17, 2022, starting at 9:30 a.m. to Remember and Honor our veterans by the laying of Remembrance wreaths […]
The Alexandria National Cemetery, originally called the Soldiers Cemetery, has over 4300 burials, including the graves of 249 United States Color Troops (U.S.C.T) who served in the Civil War. The […]
