Many Arlingtonians have prepared histories tailored to their own neighborhoods, most-but not all of them-for civic associations. Below in the neighborhood names are links to online versions for our county’s communities available as of February 2023, plus history write-ups on some schools and religious communities. These may have been produced by the school, an alum, or published in The Arlington Historical Magazine. The Arlington Historical Society encourages additional efforts.
AHS Board member, local historian, and author, Charlie Clark assembled this collection of neighborhood, school, and religious communities. In the summer of 2023 Clark (with help from Sean Denniston and Marty Suydam) added available links to churches and temples. If you know of others, please email: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org
Click on the name of the neighborhood, school, or religious community for its history. Beneath each name are any available additional history resources.
If you want to interact with this neighborhood map, go to the Arlington County webpage.
Neighborhoods
- Alcova Heights
- Arlington Forest
- Arlington East Falls Church
- Arlington Heights
- Arlington Mill
- Ashton Heights
- Ballston
- Barcroft
- Bellevue Forest
- Bluemont
- Boulevard Manor
- Buckingham
- Cherrydale
- Clarendon-Courthouse
- Crystal City
- Dominion Hills
- Donaldson Run
- Douglas Park
- Fairlington Village
- Glencarlyn
- Green Valley
- Halls Hill/High View Park
- Leeway-Overlee
- Lyon Park
- Scott Sowers gives a tour of his former neighborhood with this 8-minute YouTube video from 2008
- Lyon Village
- Madison Manor
- Maywood
- A Tribute to Maywood
- Old Dominion
- Old Glebe
- Penrose
- Rock Spring
- Shirlington
- Tara-Leeway Heights
- Waycroft-Woodlawn
- Westover
- Williamsburg
- Yorktown
Schools
- Barcroft Elementary School
- Bishop O’Connell High School
- Dorothy Hamm Middle School
- Hoffman-Boston Elementary School
- H-B Woodlawn
- Wakefield High School
- Washington-Liberty High School
- Yorktown High School
Religious Communities
- Advent Lutheran Church
- Arlington Assembly of God
- Arlington Baptist Church
- Arlington Church of Christ
- Arlington Presbyterian Church
- Catholic Diocese of Arlington
- Central United Methodist Church
- Cherrydale United Methodist Church
- Christ Church of Arlington
- The Church at Clarendon
- Clarendon United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church of Arlington
- First Baptist Church of Clarendon
- Grace Community Church
- Greenbrier Baptist Church
- Holy Martyrs of Vietnam
- Etz Hayim Congregation
- Macedonia Baptist Church
- Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Mount Olivet United Methodist Church
- Mount Salvation Baptist Church
- Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
- Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church
- Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ
- Saint Agnes Catholic Church
- Saint Andrew‘s Episcopal Church
- Saint Ann Church
- Saint Charles Catholic Church
- Saint John’s Baptist Church
- Saint John’s Episcopal Church
- Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church
- Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church
- Trinity Presbyterian Church
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington
- Walker Chapel United Methodist Church
- Westover Baptist Church
- Wilson Boulevard Christian Church