Beulah Baptist Church

Beulah Normal and Theological Institute was the first Black school for educating teachers and preachers during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. It was founded in 1862 in Alexandria, Virginia by an African American preacher, Rev. Clem Robinson, as an upper division of the "First Select Colored School" in that city. This effort preceded any other Black theological or Normal school in the Reconstruction period.Robinson founded several schools for contraband and freed slaves in Alexandria, Virginia in 1862. He was a native of Virginia, a graduate of Ashmun Institute (later Lincoln University) in Pennsylvania, and an ordained Baptist preacher serving in Philadelphia when he heard the call to head South to educate and preach to former slaves. He left for Alexandria as soon as it was open to educators who could serve the hundreds of contraband or freed ex-slaves in the city. He opened the "First Select Colored School" for elementary and high school students, with help from Black colleagues Mrs. Robinson, Miss Amanda Borden, and Rev. George Washington Parker. Their efforts were supported by the Baptist Free Mission Society of New York, Philadelphia donors, and in time the American Baptist Home Missionary Society. The primary school quickly grew to over 700 students, a night school served working adults, and an upper school served those with some education. Rev's Robinson and Parker assisted the efforts of other pioneers for Black education in Alexandria, like the white New England missionaries Harriet Jacobs and Julia Wilbur.After founding the Beulah Baptist Church in 1863, Robinson renamed the upper school "The Beulah Normal and Theological Institute," and this grew to 87 students by 1867. Numerous Baptist educators, pastors, and missionaries graduated from his institute. By early 1869, Beulah Normal and Theological reported more ministerial students (30) than any other Baptist school in the South. The school declined over the next few years, however, as northern missionary societies and donors shifted their money to white-run normal and theological schools, like Wayland-VUU, Howard, and Hampton. Robinson’s school closed by 1870, due to lack of northern mission boards support, and the rise of free public schools, but he continued to work for African American education through the "First Free School Society of Alexandria" with noted Black politician George Lewis Seaton. He left Beulah Baptist Church in 1875, but continued to work and live in the D.C. region for the rest of the century.

The Lyceum is a historic structure in Alexandria, Virginia. It was built in 1839 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 27, 1969. It was built, from bricks from the original St. Mary chapel, as a permanent home for the Alexandria Lyceum and the Alexandria Library. It served as a hospital during the American Civil War. After the war it became a private home and later served as an office building. Today it is the location of the official city history museum of Alexandria.

Appomattox is a bronze statue commemorating soldiers from Alexandria, Virginia, who had died while fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The memorial was located in the center of the intersection of South Washington Street (Virginia Route 400) and Prince Street in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria. The National Park Service placed the monument on the National Register of Historic Places during 2017. The statue was removed on June 2, 2020, during nationwide protests during which vandals defaced segregation-era statues following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Alexandria Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the independent city of Alexandria, Virginia. The department is responsible for 15 square miles (39 km2) with a population of over 148,000.

The Alexandria Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in Alexandria, Virginia. Encompassing all of the city's Old Town and some adjacent areas, this area contains one of the nation's best-preserved assemblages of the late-18th and early-19th century urban architecture. The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) is an Alexandria, Virginia based U.S. nonprofit conservative policy advocacy and astroturfing organization. It was founded in 1998 by former tobacco industry executives who sought to counter government restrictions on smoking.The Center for Individual Freedom has led efforts to defeat efforts to compel "dark money" groups like it from being forced to reveal their donors. It won a big victory in September 2012 when a U.S. appeals court overturned a lower court decision that increased disclosure requirements. Despite this, Mother Jones reported in April 2012 that the Center for Individual Freedom had been given $2.75 million from Crossroads GPS, the conservative non-profit started by Karl Rove. Paul Ryan, an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center (a group in favor of campaign finance regulation), says CFIF's anti-disclosure cases are without merit but adds that challenging disclosure laws is a new attempt to deregulate campaign finance.In the 2010 elections CFIF spent $2.5 million supporting Republican candidates, and in the 2012 elections it spent $1.9 million.An investigation by Gizmodo found that CFIF was intimately involved in the communications industry's astroturfing campaign against net neutrality.

Odd Fellows Hall is a historic Odd Fellows hall located at Alexandria, Virginia. It is a 2 1/2-story, brick building. It was built in 1864 as a one-story building, and expanded to its present size in 1870. African-American orders like the black Odd Fellows allowed blacks to socialize and put their skills to good use. In 1870, black builder and politician George Seaton was hired to build the Odd Fellows meeting hall in Alexandria, Virginia. For decades the building was used to house the group and many of the social gatherings of the African-American community. In the 1980s the building was converted into condominiums. It is a three-story brick building with decorative detailing and a slate mansard roof. The hall is currently a residential building.

The Bayne–Fowle House is a historic house located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 1986. The Bayne–Fowle House is a masonry townhouse built in 1854 for William Bayne, an Alexandria-based commission merchant. It is noted for its fine mid-Victorian interiors and elaborate plasterwork. During the American Civil War the house was occupied by Northern troops and subsequently confiscated by the Federal government and converted briefly into a military hospital. Since 1871 it has been a private residence.

The Dr. Albert Johnson House is a historical house located at 814 Duke Street in the Bottoms neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 2004. A 19th century building in the Italianate townhouse style, it is noted for being the place where Dr. Albert Johnson, one of the first licensed African-American physicians in Alexandria once lived and held his practice.The townhouse is a two-story, north facing building which consists of three bays, a side-hall building with a raised basement. It underwent renovation in 1974.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church in the Anglican Communion located in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia. The church, consecrated in 1818, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol. It is one of the few buildings designed by Latrobe in a Gothic style and one of the earliest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the United States. The church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. During the year 2009, St. Paul's Episcopal Church celebrated the bicentennial of its founding.

Christ Church is an Episcopal church located at 118 North Washington Street, with an entrance at 141 North Columbus Street, in Alexandria, Virginia. Constructed as the main church in the Church of England's Fairfax Parish, the building was designed by Col. James Wren, a descendant of Sir Christopher Wren. To finance construction of the church, the Fairfax Vestry raised 31,186 pounds of Oronoco tobacco from parishioners. Construction began in 1765, under the direction of James Parsons. After four years, the church was still unfinished. The vestry relieved Parsons of his duties as overseer of the construction. John Carlyle accepted the position and handed the keys of the completed building over to the vestry in February 1773. Initially the pews were box pews and a two-tier pulpit was situated on the north side of the sanctuary. There was no font because until after the Civil War, weddings, baptisms, and the churching of women took place at home. In the mid-nineteenth century, stoves were put in the back of the church and the box pews were converted to the slips that are in use today. During a renovation later that century, the original pulpit was replaced by the current wine-glass pulpit. The only remaining hand-carved hymnal rack is in the Lee pew. The plaques on either side of the chancel were hand-lettered by Wren and have never been retouched. They display the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed, and the Golden Rule. Wren used ink and then varnished his work just as an artist varnishes a finished painting. Over time the carbon in the ink and the alcohol in the varnish formed an acetate that created the wonderful burnished patina of the plaques. If you look closely, you can see Wren's brushstrokes and one drip. George Washington, Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee, Charles Simms, Philip Marsteller, and Henry Fowler are a few of the church's notable parishioners (members). Until the twenty-first century, it was tradition for sitting presidents to attend a service. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Eleanor Roosevelt visited the church on January 1, 1942 to commemorate World Day of Prayer for Peace. The church was known as Fairfax Church until given the name Christ Church in 1816. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

Alfred Street Baptist Church's is a Baptist church in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA.