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Before the electric trolleys, there was the horsecar line of the Alexandria Passenger Railway (APR), which served Alexandria, Virginia, for just over a year in the 1870s.. Starting on July 12, 1873, the APR ran two horse-drawn cars on tracks from the Ferry Wharf, west on King Street and then south on Peyton Street to the old stone bridge over Hooff's R
The area was originally called Belhaven, believed to be in honor of a Scottish patriot, John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton.The town was formally named Alexandria in 1779, after Captain Philip Alexander II (1704–1753) and Captain John Alexander (1711–1763), who donated the land to assist in the development of the area.
The Alexandria Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in Alexandria, Virginia.Encompassing all of the city's Old Town and some adjacent areas, this area contains one of the nation's best-preserved assemblages of the late-18th and early-19th century urban architecture.
November 25, 1969 (South of the junction of River and Berry Hill Rds. South Boston: 2: Black Walnut: Black Walnut: October 29, 1991 (Black Walnut Rd., 850 feet (260 m) south of its junction with Green Valley Rd.
Pages in category "Old Town Alexandria" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... King Street–Old Town station; L. Lee–Fendall House; S.
King Street is a major road in Alexandria, Virginia, United States and historic Old Town Alexandria. It extends westward from the Potomac River waterfront near the Torpedo Factory Art Center and nearby bustling tourist gift shops and restaurants, passing City Hall and the Alexandria General District Court.
The Parker-Gray neighborhood is located in the northwestern quadrant of the Old Town Alexandria street grid as it was laid out in 1797. More recently known as "Uptown", it mostly consists of small row houses and town houses, but there are also many commercial buildings. It is the largest historically black neighborhood in the city. [64]
A third system, the Washington and Old Dominion Railway (W&OD), began in the 1850s as the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad, a steam railroad. It was leased by the newly formed W&OD, which in 1912 connected the line to the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad. Electric trolleys last ran in 1941, but the company continued ...