Arlington (VA) Historical Society

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American Legion post in Arlington View celebrates namesake Pearl Harbor hero | ARLnow.com As it celebrates its namesake's birthday this week, an American Legion post in Arlington View is working for more visibility across Arlington and the region. At almost 80 years old, American Legion Dorie...

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15-Minute History: Spotlight -The Ball-Sellers House
October 5 @ 2-2:30 pm. The BS House is wrapping up its 50th Anniversary season as a museum at the end of October, so we thought to remind folks what’s so unique about this c. 1750 farmhouse. Arl Historical Museum 1805 S. Arlington Ridge Road. 🗃️

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A reminder that the Arlington Historical Museum is now open on Saturdays from 10:00-4:00 pm. We're still open from 1:00-4:00 Sunday afternoons. Admission is still free! (But donations appreciated.) 1805 S. Arlington Ridge Road. 🗃️https://arlhist.org/visit/

The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks. The order includes a well-known photo of a man probably named Peter Gordon that graphically displays the wounds inflected on him when he was enslaved.

Join us as Jessica Kaplan of the Arlington Historical Society tells us about the origin of this initiative, the research being done, the work of Arlington Tech students to recreate some of the plaques, the response of the community and where to find already embedded stumbling stones.

have been embedded into the sidewalks near the locations where they were enslaved. Many more stumbling stones will be installed throughout the county. Currently, the names of 1,100 enslaved individuals have been identified.

had previously been unknown. But now, this family’s story will be told to a broader community. Through a partnership between AHS and the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington, stumbling stones, six-inch round bronze plaques, engraved with their names and dates of their births and deaths,

Webinar: Memorializing the Enslaved of Arlington - Arlington Historical Society The lives of Margaret Hyson and her children George and Charlotte – three people enslaved in what is now the Yorktown neighborhood in the 1800s – had previously been unknown. […]

Webinar: Memorializing the Enslaved of Arlington
Sept. 29 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. Advance registration is not required, and this free event is open to all. The lives of Margaret Hyson and her children George and Charlotte – three people enslaved in what is now the Yorktown neighborhood in the 1800s –🗃️

...and AHS is partnering with Mt. Olivert United Methodist Church to portray key figures buried in the cemetery. AHS and Mt. Olivet volunteers will portray some of those who are buried in the cemetery and introduce you to some well known and not-so-well-known Arlingtonians. ...(2/2)

Mt. Olivet Cemetery Tour. Sept 28 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Mt. Olivet. United Methodist Church 1500 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA, United States 🗃️ The cemetery of the oldest church in the county is a museum with no walls. Each of the interred has a story... (1/2)

15-Minute History: Vice on the Virginia Shore - Arlington Historical Society Join us for a brief talk by the author of “Shootout at Jackson City,” George Axiotis, as he describes what life was like living outside the law in Rosslyn and […]

15-Minute History: Vice on the Virginia (Potomac) Shore.
September 28 @ 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm. The Arlington Historical Museum, 1805 S. Arlington Ridge Road. Join us for a brief talk by the author George Axiotis, as he describes what life was like living outside the law in Rosslyn and Jackson City 🗃️

AHS is at Clarendon Day - Arlington Historical Society AHS is helping Clarendon celebrate its history at Clarendon Day. Come by our table and get a free “Souvenir Guide from the 1915 Northern VIrginia Exposition.” Stay for a story […]

The Arlington Historical Society (VA) is at Clarendon Day, TODAY! Saturday, September 27 @ 11:00 am - 6:00 pm AHS is helping Clarendon celebrate its history at Clarendon Day. Come by our table and get a free “Souvenir Guide from the 1915 Northern Virginia Exposition.” This is a great street festival

The Arlington Historical Society is at the County Fair - Arlington Historical Society The Arlington Historical Society is at the Arlington County Fair. We have an indoor booth from Friday at 4 pm through Sunday at 7 pm. Stop by and say hello […]

AHS is at the Arlington County Fair this weekend! Test your knowledge of Arlington history! Find out about Memorializing the Enslaved of Arlington, the joint project with the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington, to learn where stumbling stones are or will be placed. Find your home on an 1865 map!

Come visit our booth at the Arlington Country Fair! The exhibit hall is open from late Friday afternoon through Sunday.

This is part of the series of community events commemorating the 1965 Voting Rights Bill. See the new exhibit of photos, documents, and artifacts of voting in Arlington County. Take the reading test from the 1920s and see if you'd be allowed to exercise your constitutional rights.

Graphic from Museum Exhibit "From Barriers to Ballots."

SUNDAY, August 10 @2PM "Voting in Arlington County Today" Join us as the Vice-Chair of Arlington’s Electoral Board Richard Samp discusses the process for voting in Arlington County elections today and how you can get involved. (1805 South Arlington Ridge Road, Arlington)

You can also make protest signs that colonial Virginians could have used as they protested the king’s actions. We’ll have the materials for posters/signs and information about what the colonists were complaining about. Come for the history, stay for a free guided tour of this 275-year-old house.

Reading the Declaration of Independence and Making Revolutionary Protest Signs - Arlington Historical Society “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” help read the Declaration of Independence out loud for all to hear at one of the only structures in the county that is […]

The Arlington (VA) Historical Society is hosting a reading of the Declaration of Independence at 1 pm. That's all of it, including the list of complaints against G III. It's located at the oldest home in the entire DC area, the Ball-Sellers House, built in the 1740s. #1776 🗃️

You can also make protest signs that colonial Virginians could have used as they protested the king’s actions. We’ll have the materials for posters/signs and information about what the colonists were complaining about. Come for the history, stay for a free guided tour of this 275-year-old house.

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Arlington Historical is a free mobile app that puts Arlington, Virginia’s history at your fingertips. Find interesting stories about people, places, and events in our history. Each point on the interactive map includes historical information about the site along with historical images. 🗃️

LOCATION CHANGE DUE TO WEATHER Juneteenth Community Day - Arlington Historical Society THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED INDOORS TO WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL DUE TO WEATHER FORECASTS Honor and celebrate the strength, determination, resilience and integrity of those who weathered in the pursuit […]

Today's 2d Annual County Juneteenth Celebration has been moved indoors to Wakefield High School. Today, Thursday 19 June, from 4-7 pm. It's a lot of fun with food and music. And the Arlington Historical Society will be there! 🗃️

JUST IN: Arlington Juneteenth event moving to indoor venue due to expected storms | ARLnow.com A big local event in celebration of Juneteenth is moving to a new venue due to expected storms. The 2nd Annual Juneteenth Community Day, held today (June 19) from 4-7 p.m., is moving from Metropolitan...

JUST IN: Arlington Juneteenth event moving to indoor venue due to expected storms

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Three photos. On the left is the original of a young woman in early 20th-century attire. In the middle, the same photo, but now she has a knife! And on the right, a photo showing the image on display in a museum. The Arlington (VA) Historical Society was adding a photo of Arlington resident Julia Reinhart Powell to an exhibit panel. Ms. Powell was a Yeoman (F) in the First World War. However, the photo of her (LEFT) was too short. So, they used an AI photo editing program to enhance the image, making it longer to fit on a panel. The resulting photo (CENTER) is fine, except, for some unknown reason, AI placed a long knife in her left hand! In the final version (RIGHT) they cropped most of the knife out of the photo—just another AI weirdness to consider.

The Arlington (VA) Historical Society was adding a photo of Arlington resident Julia Reinhart Powell to an exhibit panel. Ms. Powell was a Yeoman (F) in the First World War. Compare the photos to see what an AI photo editing program did to the original.

A group of people standing in a museum, among the display cases, listening to a speaker.

People in a museum, looking at exhibits. In the foreground is a model of a local Native American village, circa 1600.

The Arlington Historical Museum reopened on Saturday, 3 May, after being closed for repairs, new windows, a paint job, and refurbishing ALL of the exhibits. 1805 South Arlington Ridge Road

Nevertheless, his land became the basis of a thriving African-American enclave called Hall's Hill, now known as High View Park. (Excerpted, in part, from www.18thmass.com/blog the US Army’s 18th Massachusetts Volunteers were posted on the Hall property in the Civil War) (6/6)

In 1866 Hall divided his land among relatives, but also sold smaller one-acre lots to formerly enslaved men at below market prices. But he didn’t sell land to them because he was a nice guy. White neighbors said Hall wanted to irritate them by forcing them to have African-American neighbors. (5...)

Although he enslaved people, Hall was a staunch Unionist. At the outbreak of the Civil War his property became of interest to both Confederate & US Army force. Confederate troops moved into the area in August 1861 and set fire to Hall's home in an attack launched from neighboring Upton's Hill. (4..)

The Alexandria Gazette reported Jenny killed Basil’s wife Elizabeth in 1857 & she was hung. Tired of mistreatment, the enslaved woman pushed Elizabeth into a fire, and when Elizabeth climbed out, pushed her back in. Three years later Hall remarried 23-year-old Frances Ann Harrison. (3...)

His land & house were maintained by enslaved people. Records show that Hall enslaved a family including Jenny Farr & her son, James Clark, as well as three additional children born into slavery on the Hall plantation. Records also show that the Halls were very harsh slave owners. (2...)