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Exterior of the historic Alexandria City Hall

Exterior of Citizen's National Bank, established 1870

Exterior of Corby Brothers Steam bakery. The business claimed to be the largest bread shippers in the US, with this specific branch in Alexandria producing 2,400,000 loaves a year.

Exterior of Robert F Downham's house. In the late 18th and early 19th century Edmund Jennings Lee, a prominent politician and correspondent with George Washington, lived here. Today the home call the Lee-Fendall House, a historic house museum on the…

Exterior of Edward Quinn and Sons' store. The grocery and liquor business handles only first-class goods.

Exterior of the Alexandria's First Baptist Church, established 1803

Exterior of Alexandria's First National Bank, established 1864

Ad in the 1907 Alexandria City Directory for First National Bank

Fishtown was a seasonal district on Alexandria's Wharf. A collection of wooden shacks and temporary buildings, fishtown housed a variety of fish-related businesses, such as catching, salting, packing, and serving. Fishtown was predominantly…

""This painting by George Reid depicts women working in a factory. Of the almost 300,000 factory workers engaged in war production in 1917, approximately one in eight were women.""