Alexandria, VA - Photo Tour

Carlyle House 121 North Fairfax Street	Seaport Center - Waterfront Park, Old Town (Union Street)	Ramsay House 221 King Street

One of the founders and first landowners in Alexandria, John Carlyle and his first wife Sarah, moved into their completed house on August 1, 1753.	This floating museum houses a boat building program, a marine sciences lab, and offers a boat livery of small sailing and rowing craft that visitors can rent.	Originally built in the 18th century by William Ramsay, a Scottish merchant and city founder. The house now serves as the city's visitors center.

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Alexandria's Birthday	George Washington	Christmas Walk

The Alexandria Symphony Orchestra playing the 1812 Overture with a background of fireworks for the celebration of the City's birthday at Jones Point Park in 1997.	Alexandria is the home town of George Washington, and the City celebrates the birthday of the nation's first president with a parade every February. The City also hosts the St. Patrick's Day Parade in March.	The City hosts the Christmas Walk celebrating the City's Scottish heritage, each December.

Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site 4301 W. Braddock Road

Fort Ward is the best preserved of the system of forts and batteries built to protect Washington D.C. during the American Civil War	The weapons were manufactured based upon the 1864 table of armament for the fort. The fort, museum and park opened to the public on May 30, 1964.	Fort Ward has been cited as the best Civil War restoration/preservation project in the Mid-Atlantic region.

George Washington Masonic National Memorial 101 Callahan Drive		Stabler - Leadbeater Apothecary 105 - 107 South Fairfax Street

Just a mile from the Potomac River, in historic Alexandria, Virginia, stands the 333 ft. George Washington Masonic National Memorial. Dedicated to the memory of George Washington - Patriot, President, Mason - the Memorial was dedicated on May 12, 1932, as an expression of the Masonic fraternity's faith in the principles of civil and religious liberty and orderly government.		The Apothecary Shop was a family business founded in 1792 by Edward Stabler which operated in the S. Fairfax location from 1796 until 1933. It represents one of Alexandria’s oldest continuously run businesses that combined retailing, wholesaling, and manufacturing. Products included tinctures, elixirs, potions, talcs, lotions, syrups, teas, paints, cleaning products, food items, wines and confections. At its peak, the business utilized eleven local buildings.

Friendship Fire House 107 S. Alfred Street	Gadsby Tavern Museum 134 North Royal Street	African American Heritage Park 638 North Alfred Street

The current firehouse was built in 1855, remodeled in 1871 and renovated in 1992. The Engine Room on the first floor houses hand-drawn fire engines, leather water buckets, axes.	Gadsby’s Tavern Museum consists of two buildings, the c. 1785 tavern and the 1792 City Tavern and Hotel. Mr. Gadsby’s establishment was the center of political, business, and social life in Alexandria and in the new federal city of Washington, D.C. It became Alexandria’s 5-star hotel of the 18th century, hosting the first five presidents. The City Tavern’s Ballroom was the location of George Washington’s Birthnight Ball, which he attended in 1798 and 1799, as well as Thomas Jefferson’s Inaugural Banquet in 1801.	The Alexandria African American Heritage Park, located off Duke Street on Holland Lane is a nine acre memorial park. Eight acres of the park surround a preserved one acre 19th century African American cemetery.

Lee-Fendall House 614 Oronoco Street	The Lyceum 201 South Washington Street	Torpedo Factory Art Center 201 N. Union Street

This house was built in 1785 by Philip Fendall on land purchased from his cousin Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.	The building was known as the Alexandria Lyceum and, since that time, it has been a Civil War hospital and private home. In 1985, The Lyceum became Alexandria’s History Museum	The Torpedo Factory Art Center, created through the joint effort of a group of local artists and the City of Alexandria, Virginia in 1974, is considered the largest and most successful visual arts center in the U.S.