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For Kids: Old Town History Hunt with Alexandria Archaeology

Visit these sites in Old Town Alexandria, using the map to find their locations. Be sure to read the historic plaques. Then answer the questions to learn more about the exciting development of the City from Colonial times to the present.

  1. Battery Rogers on the 800 Block of South Lee Street
    During the Civil War, how many guns were there guarding the river approach to the District of Columbia?

  2. Franklin and Union Intersection
    What car manufacturing company operated on this site?

  3. 300 Block Wilkes Street
    What can you "walk through" in this area?

  4. 105-107 South Fairfax Street
    Where might George Washington have gone to buy medicine?

  5. Across from the Carlyle House, on Cameron Street, between Lee and Fairfax
    What is important about the land across from the Carlyle House, on Cameron Street, between Lee and Fairfax?

  6. 201 North Fairfax Street
    Where was the first place in Alexandria that you might go for food and drink?

  7. 134 North Royal Street, just South of Gadsby's Tavern
    How would you have gotten ice to stock your ice well at 134 North Royal Street?

  8. 134 North Royal Street, just South of Gadsby's Tavern
    What kind of fountain would you have used to refresh yourself, your horse and your dog at in the 1890s?

  9. 508 Cameron Street
    Who lived in this townhouse?

  10. 480 King Street(corner of King and Pitt Streets)
    Who was killed on this site defending the Confederacy?

  11. 118 North Washington Street
    Where did George Washington go to church?

  12. 107 South Alfred Street
    When was Alexandria’s first fire company organized?

  13. 902 Wythe Street
    What was the Black History Museum originally used for when it was built in the 1940s?

  14. 100 Block of Montgomery Street
    What important Alexandria water feature might you have used to transport goods in the 1850s?

  15. 101 Callahan Drive, behind the George Washington Masonic National Memorial
    What Civil War fort, part of the defenses of Washington, was located here?

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