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City of Alexandria Announces Community Pre-Construction Meeting for the Historic Ship Timbers Stabilization Project. Details: alexandriava.gov/go/3543.

Clang Clang Clang! The Friendship Firehouse Hose Reel has returned from conservation. Join us for a special event at 1pm on Saturday, April 30 at the Firehouse for its festive return. For more information: alexandriava.gov/go/3515 #HistoricALX2U

Yay #Spring2ACTion! We are raising 💰for a new exhibit on the Alexandria Hospital, celebrating 150 years of helping residents heal + feel better. In 1917, 🍞+ 💰donations were critical to operations of the new 🏥, located on 700 block of Duke St. Donate: spring2action.org/organizations/…

🚨 The Freedom House Museum at 1315 Duke Street is reopening Memorial Day weekend. Details below.

Friendship Firehouse is open on August 20! Come see the beautifully conserved hose reel carriage, restored to the way it looked when it was used to fight fires in the 1850s-1870s. $2 per person and no advance tickets are necessary. Free for Alexandria residents. #HistoricALX2U

Chocolate Mode - activated! Come out on Sundays to Gadsby's Tavern Museum from 2-5pm + learn about early America AND chocolate. The Museum's Junior Docents will share stories of the tavern, as well as the history of chocolate making! For more info: alexandriava.gov/museums/specia…

Learn how the world turned upside down at the Revolutionary War Symposium on Saturday with EmergingRevWar. A a full line up of great speakers including the excellent Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky! For tickets, visit shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx #America250

Norm Desmarias discussing our French Alliances through the Diary of Count de Lauberdiere. Primary documents for the win! #VA250

Learning all the dets from Eric Sterner about treaties, lawsuits, and the complex relationship of Russia + Britain thanks to American War. #VA250

Kate Gruber weaving Charles I, Jamestown, + the FFV together as she shares about the coming of revolution in Virginia. #VA250

Back after lunch with Scott Stroh of Gunston Hall to share about George Mason + Virginia’s Declaration of Rights. #VA250

Our final presenter of the RevWar Symposium: Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky on John Adams, Independence, + the Quest for Neutrality. #VA250

This NEW lesson, featuring author Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky speaking at EmergingRevWar & Historic Alexandria, focuses on the efforts of early America to remain neutral duirng the presidencies of George Washington and John Adams: c-span.org/classroom/docu…. #XYZAffair #QuasiWar #USHistory #APUSH

Are you hungry for #ArchivesMenu for dinner? Learn how Moss Kendrix changed the face of advertising through this collection highlight from the Alexandria Black History Museum. Try your hand at the recipes for Turkey and Ham Divan! youtube.com/watch?time_con… #HistoricALX2U

Summer is winding down so we wanted to share how OHA spent the summer - Friendship Firehouse Festival on August 5 #HistoricALX2U

What's up with OHA this summer? The museum at Fort Ward had the basement repainted, where our offices and collections live. Alexandria Black History Museum basement is being renovated. Don't worry, this won't impact your visit and hope to see you soon! alexandriava.gov/Museums

Today, education is seen as a right, not a privilege. A dive into the #Archives reveals how changing laws determined access to, + funding of, formal education of Black Alexandrians beginning in the late 1700s. Learn more here: alexandriava.gov/cultural-histo… #ArchivesU #HistoricALX2U

This #MemorialDay we remember and honor all those who lost their lives serving in our armed forces.

#ICYMI: We're hosting a Noah Lyles 200m Final Watch Party in partnership with the Lyles Brothers Sports Foundation and Alexandria City Public Schools on Thursday, Aug. 8, from 1-3:30 p.m. Join us to cheer on Alexandria City High School alum and Olympian Noah Lyles, OLY. RSVP by Tuesday, Aug. 6: research.net/r/AlexandriaVA…

HE'S DONE IT!!!🥇 👏Join us in giving a round of #applause to Noah Lyles, OLY for his victory in today's #Paris2024Olympics 100M. #LetsGo