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USS Admiral R. E. Coontz (AP-122) (later the USNS General Alexander M. Patch (T-AP-122)) was an Admiral W. S. Benson-class transport built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 680) on 15 January 1943 at Alameda, California , by the Bethlehem Steel Corp., and launched on 22 April ...
Alyia Gaskins is an American public health professional, urban planner, and politician serving as the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.She assumed office as Alexandria's first Black female mayor in January 2025, having previously focused on health equity, infrastructure, and housing issues throughout her career.
Alexander McCarrell Patch (23 November 1889 – 21 November 1945) was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both world wars, rising to rank of general. During World War II , he commanded U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific , and the Seventh Army on the Western Front in Europe .
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Marshall House with the flag pole visible on the roof. The death of Col. Ellsworth at the Marshall House, as depicted in a Currier and Ives engraving, 1861. The Marshall House was an inn that stood at 480 King Street (near the southeast corner of King Street and South Pitt Street) in Alexandria, Virginia.
Landmark Mall in 2021. Landmark Mall (or Landmark Regional Shopping Center) (formerly Landmark Center) was an American shopping mall in Alexandria, Virginia.Located in a triangle formed by Duke Street (Virginia State Route 236), Interstate 395, and Van Dorn Street (Virginia State Route 401), the mall opened in 1965 and closed on January 31, 2017.
Potomac Yard as a rail yard in the 1980s Potomac Yard as a mixed-use neighborhood in 2021. Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the ...
William Darnell "Bill" Euille (born 1950) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia from 2003 until 2016, serving as the first African-American in the city's history to hold that position.