Alexandria (Virginia)
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Alexandria is a city in the U.S. state of Virginia with 139 966 inhabitants, it is located on the west side of the Potomac River, nearly 10 miles from Washington, DC removed. Alexandria, like all cities in Virginia, countyunabhängig.
- 2.1 Interesting museums and tourist attractions
History
The first settlement on the site of the present city was founded in 1695. The first recorded name of the place was Belhaven. From 1790 to 1846 Alexandria was part of the District of Columbia.
Population Development
¹ 1980 - 2010: census results
Culture
Interesting museums and tourist attractions
- Archeology Museum - local archaeological museum
- Carlyle House - merchant's house dating from the 18th century
- Fort Ward Museum & Hist. Site - restored Civil War Fort
- The Lyceum - known locally history museum
- Old Presbyterian Meeting House - here the funeral of Washington took place
- Torpedo Factory Art Center - innovative multimedia art museum
- Cameron Run Regional Park - water park with wave pool and water slides
- Lee Fendell House - historic house with dolls and doll house museum
- Black History Resource Center - shows the contribution of blacks to urban development
- Friendship Fire House - Built in 1855 fire station with fire museum
- Gadsby 's Tavern Museum - tavern from the time of the War of Independence
- George Washington Masonic National Memorial - Masonic Lodge of George Washington
Courts
Alexandria is one of the seats of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ann Brashares, youth writer
- Neko Case, singer
- Stewart Copeland, drummer
- Montgomery Dent Corse, Confederate general
- Belle da Costa Greene, first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library
- Samuel Trask Dana, forest scientists
- Donna Dixon, Actress
- George Fawcett, Actor
- Angus King, politician, Governor of Maine
- Alexandra Krieger, American football player
- Earl Lloyd, Basketball Player
- Dermot Mulroney, actor
- Charles Owens, jazz saxophonist
- James Pearce, politician, U.S. Senator for Maryland
- Elvin Shepherd, Jazz Musicians
- Frederick Perry Stanton, Politicians, Territorial Governor of Kansas
- James Westcott, politician, U.S. Senator for Florida
- Joe Williams, stuntman and actor