Little has been written about the Jewish Community in Arlington, especially before World War II. Our speaker, Jessica Kaplan, shares her research about Jewish ... Read More...
Did you know that Clarendon tried to secede from Arlington County to become its own municipality? The resulting court case in 1922 helped make Arlington w... Read More...
The Director of the Arlington Historical Museum is housed in the historic Hume School, the oldest school house in the county. Built in 1891, it operated as a ... Read More...
In 1918, fourteen men established the Halls Hill Volunteer Fire Department to protect this largely African American community. While all firefighters donned bu... Read More...
This B&W silent recording documents the official test flight of the Wright Brothers' military airplane at Fort Myer on July 27, 1909. The aircraft was pil... Read More...
In December of 2020, Rep. Don Beyer introduced a bill to rename “Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial,” by removing Lee’s name. A few days before, Lee’s... Read More...
County Manager Mark Schwartz compares a snapshot of Arlington from 100 years ago and today’s Arlington. Arlington County began as a rural area of farms — the l... Read More...
Professor Alice Reagan tells the story behind women suffragists’ incarceration at the Occoquan Workhouse. In this virtual public event hosted by AHS in Decembe... Read More...
This presentation explores segregation and racialized zoning and planning laws in Arlington to see how these policies impacted the county’s suburban growth fro... Read More...
This silent film shows the W&OD railroad, both on the train and watching it pass by. You can catch images of Rosslyn's Hot Shoppe and briefly, the Arlingto... Read More...