Events for August 15, 2025 - June 14, 2025

  • Arlington HistoryFest 250

    Kenmore MIddle School 200 S. Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA, United States

    The Arlington VA250 Committee is hosting an Arlington HistoryFest 250, a free, one-day outdoor festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. It will be held on Saturday, May […]

  • George Washington’s Forest Guided Walking Tour

    Ball-Sellers House 5620 3rd Street, South, Arlington VA 22204, VA, United States

    Walk in the footsteps of George Washington on a guided walking tour with local historian, Kevin Vincent. In 1775, George Washington bought 1200-acres of forest in what is now Arlington. […]

  • New Exhibit: Who Decides? Governing Arlington Through Time

    Arlington Historical Museum 1805 South Arlington Ridge Road, Arlington, United States

    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 […]

  • Bridges of Washington, DC: The Virginia Side

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

    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 […]

  • History of Slavery on Roosevelt Island Evening Walking Tour

    Theodore Rosevelt Island Pedestrian Bridge Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, DC, United States

    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 […]

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