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NWHM Walking Tour Guide Ashlee Anderson in front of Beulah Baptist Church at 320 S. Washington St., Alexandria. (Photo: Lillis Photography) Museum Without Walls By Lillis Werder For more than 20 years, one of Alexandria’s most notable women’s organizations, the National Women’s History Museum, has carried out its mission to tell the stories of women who have transformed our nation.

Alexandria & Washington RR track tunnel under Alexandria Canal at Four Mile Run (Photo from RF&P Railroad Historical Society Collection, William C. (Bill) Sheild, President. The 1885 Railroad Disaster at Four Mile Run By Jay Roberts In the summer of 2009, two trains collided on Metro’s Red Line in Washington, D.C. The train operator and eight passengers were killed. Dozens were injured. A city and region were stunned and saddened. Friends and family mourned.

ALEXANDRIA, VA — On January 18, 1852, the annual ”Hiring Day” for free African American men took place at what was then just outside the Alexandria city limits, enabling freedmen to obtain both permanent and long-term temporary employment in the Northern Virginia region.