Events for July 9, 2026

Ongoing

New Exhibit: First in Frame: Arlington’s Early Residents

Arlington Historical Museum 1805 South Arlington Ridge Road, Arlington

Discover the people who helped shape Arlington. This exhibit highlights early landowners and settlers whose decisions and choices laid the foundation for the county we know today. The Arlington Historical […]

New Exhibit: Mapping the Federal City, 1791: Arlington in the Original District

Arlington Historical Museum 1805 South Arlington Ridge Road, Arlington

Step into the moment Arlington helped shape the nation’s capital. In 1791, surveyors under President George Washington mapped a 100-square-mile federal district along the Potomac River, placing forty sandstone boundary stones; […]

Bridges of Washington, DC: The Virginia Side

Aurora HIlls Library/Community Center 735 18th Street, South, Arlington

In the late 1700s, the first bridges, now completely gone, connected the new Federal City to the outside world. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, more and bigger crossings arose […]

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