The Alexandria Chronicle Archives

Spring 2010 -- Hugh West and the West Family's Momentous Role in Founding and Developing Alexandria and Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, Virginia by Jim Bish (26 pages)

Fall 2009 -- Catherine's Ring: The Story of a Sea Captain and the Daughter of a Philadelphia Potter in Alexandria, Virginia by Richard H. Klingenmaler (10 pages)

Summer 2009 -- Alexandria and Belhaven: A Case of Dual Identity by Diane Riker (12 pages)

Spring 2009 -- A British Fleet Sails into Alexandria by Ted Pulliam (12 pages)

Fall 2008 -- "Hessians in our midst:" Provost Duty in Alexandria 1861-62, the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers by Michael Ayoub (16 pages)

Spring 2008 -- A Tale of Two Continents: How Fortune and Ability Affected Two Brothers: Doctor George Carlyle of Cumberland County, England, and John Carlyle of Alexandria, Virginia by Jim Bartlinski  (10 pages)

Winter 2007 -- A Defenseless Alexandria by Carole L. Herrick  (8 pages)

Fall 2007 -- Gunpowder, Flour, Fire and Heirs: A Waterfront Block from Duke to Wolfe Streets by Ted Pulliam (10 pages)

Summer 2007 -- The Fitzgerald Warehouse: The Early History of an Alexandria Landmark by Diane Riker (14 pages)

Spring 2007 -- Firehouses in Alexandria by Tom Hart (12 pages)

Fall 2006 -- Reaching for the Channel: Some Documentary and Archaeological Evidence of Extending Alexandria's Waterfront by Steven J. Shephard  (16 pages)

Alexandria Chronicles published before 2006 can be perused in hard-copy format at the Local History/Special Collections unit of the Alexandria Public Library.  The issues in red below have been scanned and can be viewed on-line here by clicking on them.

2003/2004 - "A Sacred Duty:" Mount Vernon during the Years of the Civil War by Mary V. Thompson

Summer/Fall 2002 - The Alexandria Sisters of Charity by William F. Carne

Spring 2002 - The Alexandria-Mt. Vernon Conference by Henry Morgan

Winter 2001/2002 - Literary Tastes in 19th Century Alexandria, Virginia by Robert C. Reed

Fall 2001 - The Alexandria Memorial Drinking Fountain by Anne S. Paul  (24 pages)

Summer 2001 - Wilmer McLean (1814-1882): Victim or Scrooge? by Cliff Johns

Spring 2001 - Edgar Warfield-Alexandria's Last Surviving Confederate Soldier by T. Michael Miller

Winter 1999/2000 - The Washington and Prince Street Military Prisons-Alexandria's Andersonville? by T. Michael Miller

Fall 1999 - The Anthony Burris Affair: Alexandria, Virginia Locals at the Center of National Debate over the Fugitive Slave Act during Violent Incidents in Boston, Massachusetts by Cliff Johns

Summer 1999 - Alexandria and Northern Virginia in the Early National Period: The Paradox of Liberalism in a Slave Society by A. Glenn Crothers

Winter/Spring 1998/1999 - The Saga of Saving and Reconstructing Ramsay House by Peter H. Smith  (36 pages)

Fall 1998 - The Mystery Surrounding G. W. P. Custis' Painting of George Washington at Yorktown by T. Michael Miller

Summer 1998 - Colonial Alexandria's Levers of Power by Effie Crittenden Dunstan

Winter 1997/1998 - Street Boundaries Moved-Property Loss-Deed Errors Ensue by Gilman McDonald

Fall 1997 - Prince Street Profiles, Part II by T. Michael Miller

Summer 1997 - Prince Street Profiles by T. Michael Miller

Spring 1997 - Recollections of the Early War between the States in Alexandria, Virginia by A. J. Wickliffe

Winter 1996 - The Beginnings of Historic Preservation in Alexandria-Moving Toward the Creation of the Old and Historic District by Peter H. Smith

Fall 1996 - Two Views of St. Paul's Church, Alexandria, Virginia by T. Michael Miller

Spring/Summer 1996 - An Architectural Walking Tour of Alexandria, Va. by Denys Peter Myers

Winter 1995/1996 - The History of the Boyhood Home of Robert E. Lee by J. Patten Abshire

Fall 1995 - The History of Alexandria Hospital by Ruth Lincoln Kaye

Summer 1995 - "Bandages and Broken Bones:" The Civil War Diary of Anne Reading. Introduction by Margaret Garrett Irving

Spring 1995 - President Lincoln's Railroad Car by Robert Slusser

Fall/Winter 1994 - A Stroll through History:  A Walking Tour of Historic South Lee (Water) Street by T. Michael Miller (52 pages)

Summer 1994 - Ammi B. Young, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and His 1858 Alexandria Post Office and Customhouse by Lowell Klock (16 pages)

Spring 1994 - Isaac Todd's 1804 Alexandria Profiles by Mona Leithiser Dearborn (24 pages)

Winter 1993/1994 - Thomas Jefferson: Friend of Alexandria by Thomas B. Worsley  (12 pages)

Fall 1993 - A "Toothful" Account of Dentistry in Early Alexandria by Anne S. Paul (12 pages)

Summer 1993 - The Elks Club of 318 Prince Street by Marilyn W. Burke   (12 pages)

Spring 1993 - Alexandria, Virginia's Market Square by Penny C. Morrill   (20 pages)

Alexandria History Magazine. Before the Alexandria Chronicle, the Alexandria Historical Society published the approximately annual Alexandria History magazine from 1978 to 1992. Copies of Alexandria History magazine can be perused in hard-copy format at the Local History/Special Collections unit of the Alexandria Public Library.

1992 - Charles Koones and the Alexandria Furniture Trade, 1820-1860 by Elaine Hawes

1990 - Alexander Hunter and the Bessie Hale Story by Terry Alford.
Phillip Richard Fendall, 1734-1805, Banker, Lawyer, and Entrepreneur by T. Michael Miller.
Quarries along the Potomac by Dorothea E. Abbott.
Lee Children of Sully by Eleanor Lee Templeman

1987 - A New Look at the Founding of Alexandria by James D. Munson.
"Out of Bondage"-A History of the Alexandria Colonization Society by T. Michael Miller.
Archaeological Investigations at Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia by Donald K. Creveling.
Reflections on Silver in Early Alexandria by Catherine B. Hollan.
Shipbuilding in Alexandria by Frederick Tilp.
The Bull in the Apothecary Shop by Anne Smith Paul.

1984 - A Chronicle of the 17th Virginia Regiment-The Reminiscences of Col. Arthur Herbert by T. Michael Miller.
The Mystery of Ledger G by Terry Alford.
Alexandria in the War of 1812.

1983 - The City of Alexandria and Alexandria (Arlington) County by William B. Hurd.
Olney Winsor, Merchant by Elizabeth Hambleton.
History of Saint John's Academy, 1833-1895 by Allen W. Robbins.

1982 - George Washington in the Eyes of a Contemporary by Elizabeth Hambleton.
The Washington Society of Alexandria by Robert G. Whitton.
Montgomery Dent Corso by William B. Hurd.
Tour of Potomac, 1908-1930 by Robert L. Crabill.
AB&W Transit Company by B. C. May.
How to Research a House History in Alexandria, Virginia by T. Michael Miller.

1981 - Beleaguered Alexandria, 1861-1865 by James G. Barber.
"The Town Is Took:" McClellen's Troops on Seminary Hill by Cazenove G. Lee.
Cazenove Lee Remembers Robert E. Lee.

1980 - From Alexandria to Albany: The Journal of Mrs. Charlotte Brown, 1754-1757 by Ethelyn Cox.
Gen. Edward Braddock: A Retrospective by Ethelyn Cox.
The Alexandria Market Square by James D. Munson.
Doctoring and Fishing on the Potomac in 1843.

1978 - The "Precarious Trade" of a Virginia Tobacco Merchant: Harry Piper of Alexandria, 1749-1776 by Thomas M. Preissir.
A Canal for Alexandria by Vivienne Mitchell.