Alexandria, VA
Stories
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
The House Where Two Wars Were Planned
John Carlyle built his stone house on the Alexandria waterfront in 1753 with the understanding that a fine house in a growing port town was both a home and a business asset. The house's main room, its...
The Town That Was Built by Hands That Owned Nothing
Alexandria's wharves were built and worked largely by enslaved labor. The hogsheads of tobacco that made the town's fortunes were rolled to ships by men and women who received nothing from the trade t...