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 […]
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; […]
Explore how Arlington has been governed, and who has held the power to make decisions, over time in Who Decides? Governing Arlington Through Time. This exhibit traces the county’s evolving […]
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 […]
See Theodore Roosevelt Island with a new lens. Walk the places where enslaved people lived and worked on "Mason's Island" plantation from 1792-1860s. This guided walking tour is sponsored by […]
As part of Arlington’s VA250 commemoration activities, the Arlington Historical Society is partnering with the Ballston Quarter to provide you with the opportunity to see the movie 1776. The one-time only […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident…” Back by popular demand again this year is a reading of the Declaration of Independence by YOU! out loud for all to hear […]
Join us for the opening of We the People, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s traveling exhibition exploring the stories of immigrants who have shaped Virginia’s history and identity. […]
Celebrate Arlington’s past, present, and future at the Arlington Historical Society’s Spirit of ’76 party on July 23! This festive evening will take guests on a journey from 1776 through […]