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Alexandria, Virginia - Wikipedia. Alexandria, Virginia. Independent city. City of Alexandria. Coordinates: 3. 8.
Saslaw (D)George Barker (D) . House. Don Beyer (D) . Senate. Mark Warner (D)Tim Kaine (D)Area . As of the 2. 01. 0 census, the population was 1. It is largely populated by professionals working in the federal civil service, in the U.
S. One of Alexandria's largest employers is the U. S. Department of Defense. Another is the Institute for Defense Analyses. In 2. 00. 5, the United States Patent and Trademark Office moved to Alexandria. The historic center of Alexandria is known as .
With its concentration of boutiques, restaurants, antique shops and theaters, it is a major draw for all who live in Alexandria as well for visitors. Like Old Town, many Alexandria neighborhoods are compact and walkable. It is the 7th largest and highest- income independent city in Virginia. A large portion of adjacent Fairfax County mostly south, but also west of the city is named . In 1. 92. 0, Virginia's General Assembly voted to incorporate what had been Alexandria County as Arlington County to minimize confusion. History. Map includes the names of property owners at that time. City boundaries roughly correspond with Old Town.
On October 2. 1, 1. Robert Howsing for transporting 1. Colony of Virginia. One of the sites designated for a warehouse on the upper Potomac River was at the mouth of Hunting Creek. They intended to conduct trade into the interior of America, and they required a trading center near the head of navigation on the Potomac.
The best location was Hunting Creek tobacco warehouse, since the deep water could easily accommodate sailing ships. Many local tobacco planters, however, wanted a new town further up Hunting Creek, away from nonproductive fields along the river. His estate, which consisted of 5. Hunting Creek, Hooff's Run, the Potomac River, and approximately the line which would become Cameron Street. At the opening of Virginia's 1. House of Burgesses on November 1, 1. The petition was introduced by Lawrence Washington (1.
Fairfax County and, more importantly, the son- in- law of William Fairfax and a founding member of the Ohio Company. To support the company's push for a town on the river, Lawrence's younger brother George Washington, an aspiring surveyor, made a sketch of the shoreline touting the advantages of the tobacco warehouse site. It has been said that in order to avoid a predicament the petitioners offered to name the new town Alexandria, in honor of Philip's family. As a result, Philip and his cousin Captain John Alexander (1. Alexandria, and are thus listed as the founders.
This John was the son of Robert Alexander II (1. On May 2, 1. 74. 9, the House of Burgesses approved the river location and ordered . Washington do go up with a Message to the Council and acquaint them that this House have agreed to the Amendments titled An Act for erecting a Town at Hunting Creek Warehouse, in the County of Fairfax.
The auction was conducted on July 1. Almost immediately upon establishment, the town founders called the new town . The name Belhaven was used in official lotteries to raise money for a Church and Market House, but it was never approved by the legislature and fell out of favor in the mid- 1.
In April 1. 75. 5, the governors of Virginia, and the provinces of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York met to determine upon concerted action against the French in America. In March 1. 78. 5, commissioners from Virginia and Maryland met in Alexandria to discuss the commercial relations of the two states, finishing their business at Mount Vernon. The Mount Vernon Conference concluded on March 2. Potomac River. The Maryland legislature, in ratifying this agreement on November 2.
This led to the calling of the Annapolis Convention of 1. Federal Convention of 1. In 1. 79. 1, Alexandria was included in the area chosen by George Washington to become the District of Columbia. Early 1. 9th century. Alexandria's slave trade made Virginia a more pro- slavery state after retrocession. In 1. 81. 4, during the War of 1.
British fleet launched a successful Raid on Alexandria, which surrendered without a fight. As agreed in the terms of surrender the British looted stores and warehouses of mainly flour, tobacco, cotton, wine, and sugar.
By the 1. 83. 0s, they were sending more than 1,0. Alexandria to their Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans markets to help meet the demand for slaves in Mississippi and surrounding states. Government to form the District of Columbia, and later retroceded to Virginia by the federal government in 1. District was reduced in size to exclude the portion south of the Potomac River. Over time, a movement grew to separate Alexandria from the District of Columbia (the District of Columbia retrocession).
As competition grew with the port of Georgetown and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal fostered development on the north side of the Potomac River, the city's economy stagnated, together with the loss of representation and rights to vote and failed expectations for economic benefit from the new district. Alexandria was also an important port and market in the slave trade, and there were increasing talk of abolition of slavery in the national capital. Alexandria's economy would suffer greatly if slavery were outlawed. After a referendum, voters petitioned Congress and Virginia to return the area to Virginia. Congress retroceded the area to Virginia on July 9, 1. The remaining portion of Alexandria County changed its name to Arlington County in 1.
Late 1. 9th century. Fort Ellsworth is visible on the hill in the center background. The first fatalities of the North and South in the American Civil War occurred in Alexandria.
Within a month of the Battle of Fort Sumter, where two died, Union troops occupied Alexandria, landing troops at the base of King Street on the Potomac River on May 2. A few blocks up King Street from their landing site, the commander of the New York Fire Zouaves, Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, sortied with a small detachment to retrieve a large Confederate flag displayed on the roof of the Marshall House Inn that had been visible from the White House. One Night Stand Dating Sites here. While descending from the roof, Ellsworth was shot dead by Captain James W. Jackson, the hotel's proprietor. One of the Ellsworth's soldier immediately killed Jackson. Fort Ward, one of a ring of forts built by the Union army for the defense of Washington, D.
C., is located inside the boundaries of present- day Alexandria. During the Union occupation, a recurring contention between the Alexandria citizenry and the military occupiers was the Union army's periodic insistence that church services include prayers for the President of the United States. Failure to do so resulted in incidents including the arrest of ministers in their church. Escaped African American slaves poured into Alexandria. Safely behind Union lines, the cities of Alexandria and Washington offered comparative freedom and employment.
Alexandria became a major supply depot and transport and hospital center for the Union army. Therefore, they were labeled contrabands to avoid returning them to their masters. Contrabands worked the Union army in various support roles. By the fall of 1. Alexandria had exploded to 1. This newly enfranchised constituency provided the support necessary to elect the first black Alexandrians to the City Council and the Virginia Legislature. Photo by Lewis Hine.
At the turn of the 2. The glass often went into beer bottles. Much of the Virginia Glass Company effort went to supply the demands of the Robert Portner Brewing Company, until fire destroyed the St. Asaph Street plant on February 1. The Old Dominion Glass Company also had a glass works fall to fire, then built a new one. The Belle Pre Bottle Company held a monopoly on a milk bottle that they patented, yet that organization only lasted 1.
In 1. 93. 8 the Mt. Vernon Drive- In cinema opened. Edemski three classified.
Army manuals in exchange for $3,5. Williams High School. Cline purchased the 1. Victorian house at 2. King Street and converted it into the Creole serving Two- Nineteen Restaurant. Members include Rev.
James Muir, physician Elisha Cullen Dick, and George Washington's personal attorney Charles Lee. The Society did not last for long. However, on July 2. Society once again met at Wise's home to establish a subscription library. During the first year, one hundred nineteen men joined the circulating library which was to be called the Library Company of Alexandria.
Members agreed to pay an initiation fee and annual dues. The company was chartered as a corporation in 1. General Assembly of Virginia.
James Kennedy was elected the second librarian, and the library moved to his residence and place of business. Kennedy sold books from his personal collection to the Library Company. Those books and other bought from two local merchants formed the foundation of the subscription library. The first catalog of the library's collection was published in 1. The collection grew over time, bolstered in part by the fact that some members paid their dues in books.
Most members were initially men, although records exist showing some women were members as early as 1. One noted female member in 1. Mary L. F. Custis, wife of George Washington Parke Custis. The catalog published in 1. By 1. 81. 5, there were 1,0. The library was housed in several locations over the ensuing years, including the New Market House next to the City Hall, the Lyceum Company building, and Peabody Hall, which was owned by the Alexandria School Board. Raising funds for the library was a continuing challenge.
In 1. 85. 3, a lecture series was created to raise money. Speakers included Professor Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian, Colonel Francis H. Smith of the Virginia Military Institute, and humorist George W. Bagby. The arrival of the Civil War in 1. Members were able to remove some of the collection prior to the library's occupation by Union troops.