Reading Time: 4 minutes Queen Street in Old Town Alexandria On August 21, 1939, the temperature drifted towards ninety degrees around noon. Five young men, all black, walked around the streets of Old Town Alexandria, making their way to the new library on Queen Street. Arriving, the group walked into the front door of the Alexandria Free Library (today […]
read more >Reading Time: 5 minutes Old Town Alexandria VA Situated on North Royal Street near the corner of Cameron Street stands the Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, two red brick buildings dating to the late 18th century that housed a tavern (1785) and the City Hotel (1792) that sheltered and fed pivotal people such as George Washington, John Adams, Marquis de Lafayette, […]
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