AHS Magazine

The Arlington Historical Magazine has been the Arlington Historical Society’s flagship publication since its first edition in 1957. Each boldface line links to an e-copy of the article in PDF format. This list may be searched using your browser’s “Find in Page” function.

All members of the Arlington Historical Society at every level receive the current issue each year. Copies are also available for purchase at the Arlington Historical Museum at 1805 S. Arlington Ridge Road. A complete set of all issues of the magazine is available for research purposes at the Arlington Public Library’s Center for Local History and at Marymount University’s Reinsch Library.

VOL. 17, NO.3, 2023

Reflections on a Life in Public Service, James F. Almand, Member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1978–2003, JAMES F. ALMAND with SUSAN PROKOP
Freedman’s Village: A Continued Legacy of Freedom and Community in Arlington, MALIA HUMPHRIES
The Other Arlington House, CIRO R. TADDEO
1958 Arlington: The Year That Something Happened, BILL FOGARTY
Alcova and the Development of Alcova Heights, a Garden Suburb, SHARON C. PARK
There Are Some Very Bright Scholars Among Them” Literacy in the Second United States Colored Infantry, MICHAEL SCHAFFNER

VOL. 17, NO.2, 2022

Bennett v. Garrett, 1922: When Arlington Became Arlington, SEAN C. DENNISTON
George Washington Parke Custis: Retrocession and the Disputed Role of Slavery, CHARLES S. CLARK
Glencarlyn’s Unexplored Past, TIM AIKEN
Melding Arlington’s Past and Future, JULIA CAREY

VOL. 17, NO. 1. 2021

Building History of Hume School, ANDREW MARSHALL
People of the Book: Jewish Arlington, 1900-1940, JESSICA KAPLAN
“Peculiar Political Problems:” Arlington Parks, Segregation, and Urbanization, ANNETTE SCHERBER
The Washington Mills on Four Mile Run: A Forgotten History, BETH DeFRANCIS SUN
The Clear Blue Skies of September 11, 2001: How Arlington Remembers That Fateful Day, GRACE FREITAS
Arlington Historical Society Year in Review, 2020-2021

VOL. 16, No. 4, 2020

Gertrude Lynde Crocker, CIRO TADDEO
Arlington’s Battle to Integrate Private Schools, RICHARD SAMP
Memories of Disruption: When I-66 Shook Up Arlington, CHARLES S. CLARK
A GOOD SOLDIER at Arlington House: 1861-1864, DEAN DEROSA
One Boy’s Childhood in Arlington Village: A Narrative of Fred Lillis by His Sister, VIRGINIA LILLIS SMITH
Ellen Bozman: A Lifetime of Service, a Legacy of Leadership in Arlington County, JULIA BRODSKY
Arlington Historical Society Year in Review, 2019-2020

VOL. 16, NO. 3, 2019

Virginia Women and the Vote, NANCY TATE
High View or Low Life? Arlington’s High View Hotel, JESSICA KAPLAN
Washington Golf and Country Club: The Beginnings, JOHNATHAN THOMAS
Alexandria Library Sit-In, August 21, 1939: 80th Anniversary of Historic First, NANCY NOYES SILCOX
Adrienne Veach Fallon: On Her Family’s Lamplighter Restaurant (An Oral History Interview), VIRGINIA LILLIS SMITH

VOL. 16, NO. 2, 2018

The Bottom: An African-American Enclave Rediscovered, JESSICA KAPLAN
Arlington’s Northeast: People, Paths, and Open Spaces, CHARLES M. LUDOLPH
The Original Queen of Arlington Real Estate, CHARLES S. CLARK
Everett E. Norton of Norton’s Café (An Oral History Interview), VIRGINIA ELIZABETH SMITH
World War I: An Afterthought in Arlington, ARUJ KHEMKA

VOL. 16, NO. 1, 2017

How Eminent Domain Destroyed an Arlington Community, NANCY PERRY
Arlington and the First World War, MARK BENBOW
Arlington National Cemetery: Then and Now, DEAN A. DEROSA
Diamond Memories: The Roots of Arlington Little League, TOM HAWKINS and CHARLES S. CLARK
When Did John Ball Receive HIs Land and Build His Cabin? KARL VANNEWKIRK
Werner Stargardt of Werner Jewelers (An Oral History Interview), VIRGINIA ELIZABETH SMITH
Crandal Mackey and Lawless Rosslyn, SAVANNAH LANDEFELD

VOL. 15, NO. 4, 2016

Spies and Slackers: The Bureau of Investigation’s Search for Enemy Aliens and Draft Dodgers in Alexandria County, 1917-1919, MARK BENBOW
For the Love of Gulf Branch: Arlington’s Hidden Symbol of Smart Growth, CHARLES S. CLARK
“I Was a Union Man”: James and Lewis Marcey’s Civil War Experience, JESSICA KAPLAN
From Trolley Park to Sewage Treatment: Luna Park, MARTY SUYDAM
The Arlington House Engravings of the British Surrender at Yorktown: Too Often Overlooked? DEAN A. DEROSA
Susan and Danny Falkenstern of ABC Distributors (An Oral History Interview), VIRGINIA LILLIS SMITH
The Battle of Wilson Boulevard, JAMES GUSMER

VOL. 15, NO. 3, 2015

Finding the Febrey Homestead, CHARLES S. CLARK
A View from Hall’s Hill: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia from the Civil War to the Turn of the Century, LINDSEY BESTEBREURTJE
On the Street Where You Live: Arlington Ridge, Virginia, MARTY SUYDAM
Neil Bassin of Buckingham Florist (An Oral History Interview), VIRGINIA LILLIS SMITH
Arlington: A Unionist Community in a Secessionist State, LYDIA CAWLEY

VOL. 15, NO. 2, 2014

A Tour of the Birch Family Properties, CHARLES S. CLARK
(Re)Discovering Two Early Octagon Houses in the Arlington-Alexandria Area, DEAN DEROSA
Those Who Gave Their Lives: Arlington’s Fallen Sons in World War I, ANNETTE BENBOW
Frederick Sheridan, Arlington Architect (An Oral History Interview), VIRGINIA LILLIS SMITH
Cobblestones: Street Paving in Early Alexandria, JASON TERCHA
School Integration: Heroic or Quixotic? NOAH L. KENNEDY

VOL. 15, NO. 1, 2013

Life in Arlington’s Forts During the Civil War, MARK. E. BENBOW
Retrocession: What If? JAMES HUGHES
USS Arlingtons: Past and Present, BILL DICKENSON

VOL. 14, NO. 4, OCTOBER 2012

100 Years of Rock Spring Church: From a Rural Crossroads to the Wilder World, SARAH FITZGERALD
Little Italy and Quarry Working Along the Potomac, MATTHEW R. VIRTA
The Little Tea House, CIRO TADDEO and MARK BENBOW

VOL. 14, NO. 3, OCTOBER 2011

Girl Town: Temporary World War II Housing at Arlington Farms, JOSEPH M. GUTON
Private Boarding School for Young Ladies, H. STEVEN DOLA
The Manse on Wilson Boulevard, CHARLES S. CLARK

VOL. 14, NO. 2, OCTOBER 2010

Report from the Ball-Sellers House, KEVIN VINCENT
Editor’s Note, KARL VANNEWKIRK
John W. Ayers: The Mayor of Westover, WILLARD WEBB
The Intersection of Hollywood and Arlington Boulevards, ROBERT FARR

VOL. 14, NO. 1, OCTOBER 2009

Letter Received, BILL INGRAM
John Ball and the Northern Neck Proprietary, WILLARD WEBB
Appendix 1: The John Ball Patent
Appendix 2: Original Patent of the Northern Neck Proprietary
Jimmy Dean in Arlington, CHARLES S. CLARK
By Design: Iwo Jima and the US Marine Corps War Memorial, VIRGINIA B. PRICE
Pola Negri Slept Here? Unraveling the Mystery of a Screen Siren’s Stay in Arlington, JENNIFER SALE CRANE

VOL. 13, NO. 4, OCTOBER 2008

Arlington’s Night of Gang Warfare, CHARLES S. CLARK
North Harvard Street Recollections, LARRY PALMER
When a Church Community Changed to Meet Changes in Society, CYNTHIA L. CLARK
Lustron Holmes in Arlington County: How a Short-Lived Steel Prefabricated Housing Company Left a Mark on Postwar Arlington, JENNIFER SALE
Orville Wright in Arlington, 1908-1909

VOL. 13, NO. 3, OCTOBER 2007

Gaillard Hunt: Arlington’s Forgotten Scholar, WILLARD J. WEBB
The Bazil Hall House/Cherry Hill
The Photograph of Bazil Hall, WILLARD J. WEBB
A Century of Jamestown In The Cinema, STEPHEN PATRICK
The Arlington Encountered By Captain John Smith, CHARLES S. CLARK and MARY A. ROGALSKI
The Many Faces of Arlington: Jamestown 2007 Oral History Project, NANCY HALL
Old Friends, WILLIAM H. ORSINGER

VOL. 13, NO. 2, OCTOBER 2006

David Griffith: The Forgotten Arlington Patriot, WILLARD J. WEBB
The Telephone in the Northern Virginia Area from the Beginning to World War II, JIM FEARSON
Arlington, 50 Years Ago: Continuity and Change, DEAN C. ALLARD
Fifty Years of the Arlington Historical Society, RUTH PRESTON ROSE
Some Arlington Businesses That Date to 1956

VOL. 13, NO. 1, OCTOBER 2005

The Assassination of an Arlington Nazi, CHARLES S. CLARK
Vivian Allwine Ford, SARA J. COLLINS
This Kingdom of My Childhood: Landscape, Memory and Meaning at Arlington’s Flower Garden, KAREN B. KINZEY
The Ball Family of the Potomac 1654-2004, Reviewed by MARTHA BEGGS ORTH
Books Aplenty: The Arlington Library Book Sale of May 1981, SOPHIE VOGEL
Symbols of Justice from the Three Courthouses of Arlington. GEORGE W. DODGE

VOL. 12, NO. 4, OCTOBER 2004

Strictly a Military Monument: The War Department’s Battle for Control of Lee Mansion. KAREN B. KINZEY
The World War II Home Front in Arlington, Virginia, TOM VIRNELSON
Mary Ann Hall: Arlington’s Illustrious Madam, WILLARD J. WEBB
An Imperfect God: George Washington. His Slaves, and the Creation of America, reviewed by WILLARD and ANNE WEBB

VOL. 12, NO. 3, OCTOBER 2003

The Original Developers of Barcroft, ELIZABETH WALTER
Battling For Arlington House, To Lee or Not to Lee? KAREN BYRNE KINZEY
The Spread of Arlington as a Community Name Across the United States, JOHN C. O’CONOR
Growing Up in Arlington, Virginia (Part 2), CHARLES F. SUTER
Vivian Thomas Ford, Abingdon’s Last Living Resident, SHERMAN PRATT

VOL. 12, NO. 2, OCTOBER 2002

The Hunters of Brookdale, MARY HASSLER MCCONNELL
I Promised You a Rose Garden: Nell Broyhill and the War Memorial at Bon Air Park, BOB RACKMALES
A Glimpse of an Arlington that Once Was, JIM MATLACK
Our Little Sanctuary in the Woods: Spiritual Life at Arlington Chapel, KAREN L. BYRNE
Northern Virginia in the War of 1812, SHERMAN W. PRATT
Growing Up in Arlington, Virginia (Part 1), CHARLES F. SUTER

VOL. 12, NO. 1, OCTOBER 2001

Moving into History: The Crossman-Grey House, KITTY T. JONES
The Arlington Connection: 2001, WARREN CLARDY
The Brookdale Gatepost, MARY HASSLER MCCONNELL
Early History of Mount Olivet United Methodist Church, HANK HULME
Four Pearl Day Harbor Day Experiences, WILLARD J. WEBB AND SOPHIE B. VOGEL
The View from the Hill: Letters from Hall’s Hill, Virginia, SCOTT S. TAYLOR
Seventy-Five Years of Service: A Brief History of the County Bar Association, GEORGE W. DODGE. ESQ.
The Arlington County Court Officials Compiled, GEORGE W. DODGE. ESQ.

VOL. 11, NO. 4, OCTOBER 2000

Robert Howson: Arlington Began With Him, TED PULLIAM
Julia Rhinehart Powell: A Forerunner for Women in the Military, MARTHA BEGGS ORTH
Arlington Ridge: More than an Historic Cemetery, an Historic Neighborhood, F. NEIL SMITH
Albert Goenner: The Forgotten Architect of Arlington s First Courthouse, WILLARD J. WEBB
Scouting in Arlington: AHS Museum Exhibit on Arlington Boy Scouts, GEORGE DODGE
The Little Tea House: A Revisit, SARA COLLINS
Green Valley and the Forest Hills Townhouses, SHERMAN W. PRATT

VOL. 11, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1999

Colonial Revival With A Spanish Accent, LISA CRYE
Prospect Hill: A Lost Arlington Historical Treasure, SHERMAN W. PRATT
Arlington School Closings: 1970-1984 and the Aftermath, SOPHIE B. VOGEL
The Abingdon of Alexander Hunter, Et Al., GEORGE DODGE
An “Impossible” Murder in Arlington? ROBERT J. WATSON

VOL. 11, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1998

The Unlikely Success of Arlington’s “Hippie High”, CHARLIE CLARK
Garnet W. Jex, Arlington Artist, WILLARD J. WEBB
The Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients of Arlington National Cemetery, GEORGE W. DODGE
Capital City and Arlington Boundaries: Treasured Jewels in Our Heritage Crown, SHERMAN PRATT
Growth of a Suburban Village: Fostoria, Overlee Knolls & Westover, 1730-1998, SOPHIE B. VOGEL

VOL. 11, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1997

First Memories of Northern Virginia, MARGARET (PEGGY) FISHER
The Waverly Hills Neighborhood, WILLARD J. WEBB
The County Civic Federation: A Dynamic Organization, SHERMAN PRATT
The Integration of Reed Elementary School, SOPHIE B. VOGEL
The Burial of United States Colored Troops at Arlington National Cemetery, GEORGE W. DODGE

VOL. 10, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1996

Sheriff Howard B. Fields, JACK FOSTER and GAIL BAKER…
Landscape of Stone and Bronze: The Various and Unusual Civil War Monuments Surrounding Arlington House, GEORGE W. DODGE …
The Road to Integration: Arlington Public Schools 1959-1971, ALISON BAUER CAMPBELL
Branching of the Fairfax Library: A Regional Endeavor, SOPHIE B. VOGEL…
The Abingdon Manor Ruins: The Fight to Save, SHERMAN PRATT with BERNARD BERNE.

VOL. 10, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1995

Aladdin’s Lamp: Education in Freedman’s Village, BOBBI SCHILDT
Arlington’s At-Large Electoral System: A Study of Its History, Strengths, and Weaknesses, SHERMAN W. PRATT
The Neighborhood That Was: The History of East Falls Church, Virginia, JOHN F. IEKEL
Who Are They?
A Survey of the Development of Arlington County Virginia, 1940-1965, ANN DEINES.

VOL. 10, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1994

Camp Seward on Arlington Heights: A Yankee Regiment’s First Stop in Dixie, MARK H. DUNKELMAN
Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate Burials, Part II, GEORGE W. DODGE
The Great Northern Virginia Elephant Hunt, GAIL BAKER
The Pentagon City Coordinating Committee (PCCC) and the Center for Urban Education (CUE), SHERMAN PRATT
Six Decades of Arlington Leadership, NORMAN S. NOVACK

VOL. 9, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1992

A Look at John Ball’s Inventory, 1767, MARTHA BEGGS ORTH
Harmony in Functional Execution: A History of the Arlington County Police Department, DAVID B. BROWN
Arlington National Cemetery’s First Battle Casualty, GEORGE W. DODGE
Arlington’s Lawyers’ Row: The People and the Place of a Lost Courthouse Tradition, SARA AMY LEACH
Arlington’s Historic Glebe House, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT

VOL. 9, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1991

Chain Bridge: A History of the Bridge and Its Surrounding Territory 1608-1991, JIM FEARSON
A Tribute to Boy Scout Troop 104 on Its 75th Anniversary, PHYLLIS W. JOHNSON
Jacobs Castle, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT
The Rose Garden Burials at Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery, Part Two, GEORGE W. DODGE

VOL. 9, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1990

The Travers Family and Its Cemetery, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT
The Rose Garden at Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery, GEORGE W. DODGE
Roadside Sketches, GEORGE SIMMONS
Twentieth Century History of Arlington, 1900-1980: A Chronology, NORMAN S. NOVACK

VOL. 9, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1989

The Arlington Boundary Stones, JUNE ROBINSON
Where Getting There Is Half the Fun
Columbia Pike – Some History, SARA J. COLLINS and RUTH W. STEWART
The Arlington Connection, WARREN CLARDY
A Northern Virginia Mystery Stranger than Fiction, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Arlington National Cemetery’s First Confederate Burials, GEORGE W. DODGE

VOL. 8, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1988

Arlington School Desegregation: A History, CECILIA MICHELOTTI
Springs of Arlington, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Chronology of Arlington Boundaries
An Interview with Miss Frances S. Jennings, Former Dean, Arlington Hall Junior College
Recollections of a Non-Native-Born Glencarlynite, FLORENCE C. BACKUS
Arlington National Cemetery’s First Civil War Burials, GEORGE DODGE
Alexandria County, CRANDAL MACKEY

VOL. 8, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1987

Thirtieth Anniversary Observed
Eighty Years in a Sears Mail-Order House: The Newmans of Cherrydale, ROBERT C. NEWMAN
Boulevard Manor and Spy Hill Subdivisions, ANNA BELLE LANE
The Hume School and Its Bronze Disk, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT
A Civil War Soldier’s Mark at Arlington House, GEORGE DODGE
The Yosemite Picture in Glebe House, HUGH B. JOHNSON
Maywood: Development of a Suburb, Birth of a Neighborhood, BARBARA WARNICK SILBERMAN and GAIL H. BAKER

VOL. 8, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1986

The United States Balloon Corps in Action in Northern Virginia During the Civil War, JUNE ROBINSON
The Lower Spout Run Valley and Palisades: A Case for Archeological Study and Site Preservation, BRUCE GREGORY McCOY
Family Graveyards of Arlington County, PHYLLIS W. JOHNSON
A Tribute to Jeanne Rose
The Spiritual Fortitude of Local Residents Seventy-Five Years Ago, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Museum Director’s Five-Year Report, KATHRYN E. HOLT
To Great Falls, Virginia on the Washington and Old Dominion Trolley Line, RUTH C. DE BEVOISE
The Roots of Clarendon, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT

VOL. 8, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1985

President and Mrs. James A. Garfield and Judge Jeremiah S. Black: Their Land in Arlington County, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT
The Good Old Days, RUTH M. WARD
Smith’s Island, RUTH PRESTON ROSE
Laying of Cornerstone of Arlington County Court House: Dedication Address, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Memories of My Mother’s Grocery Store in Old Ballston, Virginia, During the Years 1910 Through 1917, MRS. CHARLES DE BEVOISE
History of Glencarlyn Park and Long Branch Nature Center, SUSAN GILPIN

VOL. 7, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1984

Life in Alexandria County During the Civil War, RUTH WARD
Freedman’s Village: Arlington, Virginia, 1863-1900, ROBERTA SCHILDT
Crandal Mackey: Crusading Commonwealth’s Attorney, JACK HAMILTON FOSTER
Building the Pentagon in Arlington, WILLARD J. WEBB
The History of Arlington County’s Electric Railways, E. L. TENNYSON
A Chaplain Goes to the Battlefield: Reverend John H. Simpson’s Journey to Manassas Two Days after the First Battle of Bull Run, edited by MARY LAW McCORMACK
Arlington Property Owned by President Garfield, R. CORBIN DORSEY
A History of the Arlington County Senior Adult Program 1954-1984, JEANNE ROSE
The Land of Maria Syphax and the Abbey Mausoleum, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT

VOL. 7, NO. 3 OCTOBER 1983

The Search for the People of Linden, MARTHA BEGGS ORTH
Early History of the Arlington County Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court, CAROLINE J. BROWN
History of the Washington Golf and Country Club
Arlington’s Summer Hill Plantation, DOROTHEAE. ABBOTT
The Waycroft: Woodlawn Neighborhood, WILLARD J. WEBB
Frank Hume and His Country Cousins, WILLIAM H.B. THOMAS
Thoughts on Metro and Its Predecessor, the Washington and Virginia Railway, MRS. CHARLES U. DE BEVOISE

VOL. 7, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1982

The Establishment of the George Mason University School of Law, JOHN L. COSTELLO
The Ball-Sellers House Project, DEAN C. ALLARD and RUTH M. WARD
Department of Public Works, CAROL RAMSEY
Alexander’s Island, JACK HAMILTON FOSTER
An Extravaganza in Arlington, RUTH M. WARD
The Hunter Family and Its Connection with Arlington County, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT
Recollections of Ballston, Virginia’s Firefighting Equipment in the Year 1913, MRS. CHARLES DE BEVOISE.

VOL. 7, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1981

Use of Atlases, Gazetteers, and Maps as Genealogy Aids, DONALD A. WISE
The Heritage of Northern Virginia, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
A Duel in Arlington, RUTH M. WARD
Thomas Fairfax’s Four Mile Run Tract, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT
Some Civil War Letters, GEORGE E. PETTENGILL
Arlington: Capital Remnant, BETH R. SUNDQUIST
A Self-Guided Tour, KATHY HOLT and ANNE WEBB

VOL. 6, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1980

Frank Hume: An Arlingtonian for All Seasons, WILLARD J. WEBB
Arlington’s County Surveyor Office, DONALD A. WISE
Barcroft, Arlington County, Virginia: A Village Metamorphosis, MILDRED HANDY RITCHIE
Hume School Reunion, DORIS C. BANGS
The Building of the Washington National Monument, RUTH PRESTON ROSE
The Park in Lyon Park, DOROTHEA E. ABBOTT
Twenty Years After: The Arlington County Public Libraries, 1960-1980, JEANNE ROSE
The Alexandria Alms House and Work House, RUTH M. WARD
History of the Arlington Hospital, Adapted from an Article by HELEN E. SAMUEL
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County XII, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL

VOL. 6, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1979

School Buildings in Arlington: 1922-1979, SEYMOUR B. STISS
Letter Written by a Soldier at Fort Scott, November 30th, 1862
Rental Housing in Arlington in General and Colonial Village in Particular, EVELYN R. DOYLE
Bazil Hall of Hall’s Hill, DONALD A. WISE
A History of the Arlington County Courthouse, JEANNE ROSE
The Gunnell Family and Their Cornerstone Land in Arlington, MILDRED H. RITCHIE
Sixty Years of Red Crossing, JOHN FINLATOR
A Tribute to C. Harrison Mann, LEONE BUCHHOLZ
Among Our Archives, RUTH M. WARD

VOL. 6, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1978

Some Eighteenth Century Family Profiles, Part II, DONALD A. WISE
Mrs. General Lee: Attempts to Regain Her Possessions After the Civil War, RUTH PRESTON ROSE
When Arlington Was Part of the District of Columbia, DEAN C. ALLARD
Clarendon, MAGGIE YOUNG
Recreation in Arlington County 1870-1920, MARY LOUISE SHAFER
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County XI, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL

VOL. 6, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1977

Some Eighteenth Century Profiles, Part I, DONALD A. WISE
Presley Marion Rixey, JEAN S, DOPTIS
I Remember, CHESTER M. BRASSE
William Syphax: Community Leader, EVELYN REID SYPHAX
The Beginning of Arlington County’s Public Water Supply, RUTH P. ROSE

VOL. 5, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1976

A Biography of the Arlington Historical Society, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
The Society Seal
By-Laws of the Arlington Historical Society
John Mason of Analostan Island, WILLARD J. WEBB
Arlington: Then and Now VI, JAMES TURMAN BARRON
A Phantom Ferry, C.B. ROSE, JR
The Role of Frank Lyon and His Associates in the Early Development of Arlington County, RUTH P. ROSE

VOL. 5, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1975

The Ball-Sellers House in Glencarlyn, ANNE CIPRIANI WEBB
Civil War Reminiscences, JOHN L. SAEGMULLER
George Washington’s Four Mile Run Tract, DONALD A. WISE
An Early History of Alcova Heights, ELIZABETH CANNON KIMBALL
Recollections of Arlington’s Last Dairy Farmer, NELSON REEVES

VOL. 5, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1974

Washington-Lee High School: The Early Years, 1924-1939, ELIZABETH CANNON KIMBALL, et al.
Reminiscences of the Walker Chapel Area, HARRY E. A. GUTSHALL
Arlington: Then and Now, V, JAMES TURMAN BARRON
“Old Probabilities”. A.J. Myer and the Signal Corps Weather Service, PAUL J. SCHEIPS
The Little Tea House, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Reminiscences of the Ballston Area, RUTH C. DE BEVOISE

VOL. 5, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1973

The Re-Discovery of Brandymore Castle, ROBERT M. MOXAM
Some Black History in Arlington County: A Preliminary Investigation (From the Files of the Historical Research Committee)
Arlington: Then and Now, IV, JAMES TURMAN BARRON
Early Land Grants in Arlington. Virginia, DONALD A. WISE
Fort Strong on Arlington Heights, ANNE C. WEBB

VOL. 4, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1972

A Century of Christian Service, DONALD A. WISE
Voting and Elections in Arlington, C.B. ROSE, JR
Arlington: Then and Now, III, JAMES TURMAN BARRON
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL
Alexandria: The Founding of a Colonial City, RICHARD W. STEPHENSON
Fixing the Permanent Seat of Government on the Potomac River, ROY C. ALLEN

VOL. 4, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1971

The Glebe of Fairfax Parish, LUDWELL LEE MONTAGUE
Judge Freese’s Bayonet Court, from the memoirs of Dr. JACOB R. FREESE
Highlights of the Historical Geography and Cartography of Arlington County and Contiguous Areas of Virginia Prior to 1870, HERMAN R. FRIIS
History of the Park System in Arlington County, WILLIAM L. HUGHES, ALICE P, LETZLER, and CORNELIA B. ROSE, JR
Arlington: Then and Now, Part II, JAMES TURMAN BARRON
The Fairfax Militia During the Revolutionary War Period, TIMOTHY GEORGE TERRELL

VOL. 4, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1970

Democratic Politics in the 8th District of Virginia, 1886, MARGARET COOKE BIRGE and C.B. ROSE
History and Development of Arlington Hospital, 1934-1970, HELEN E. SAMUEL
Thomas Lee at the Spout of the Potomac, LUDWELL LEE MONTAGUE
A Tour of Historical Sites in Arlington County, DONALD A. WISE
Arlington: Then and Now, Part I, JAMES TURMAN BARRON
The Evening Star Cup, WILLIAM G. WATT
Brief History and Recollections of the Village of Glencarlyn and Vicinity, MUNSON H. LANE
An Annotated Guide to Selected Maps of Arlington County: 1600-1900

VOL. 4, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1969

Some Arlington Area People: Their Moments and Influence, MELVIN LEE STEADMAN, JR
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County IX, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL
Arlington History from the Files, C.B. ROSE, JR
Early Roads in Arlington County, CLIFTON G. STONEBURNER
The Henderson House, DONALD A. WISE
Arlington’s Representation in the General Assembly 1847-1960

VOL. 3, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1968

A Search for Arlington Families in the Early 1780’s, C.B. ROSE, JR.
Washington and Environs: 1865, THOMAS E. WHITE
History of the Washington Golf and Country Club, H. LEWIS SHEPHERD
Arlington Forest, DONALD A. WISE
The City of Alexandria: One Time Capital of Virginia, ROBERT NELSON ANDERSON
The Patent Office of the Confederacy, STAN STANTON

VOL. 3, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1967

Airports in Northern Virginia, Past and Present, ARVEN H. SAUNDERS
The 1929 Annexation from Arlington by Alexandria, C.B. ROSE, JR.
Arlington Area Postal Service, C. FORBES SIMPSON
Louis Edward Gott, M.D., JOHN KENNETH GOTT
Early Planning Progress in Arlington County, Virginia to 1945, FRANK L. DIETER
County Officials in Arlington, 1870-1960

VOL. 3, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1966

A Chronological History of the Alexandria Canal (Part II), MAXINE GOFF MORGAN
Arlington: An Agricultural Experiment Farm in a Changing Era, WAYNE D. RASMUSSEN and VIVIAN WISER
Electric Railways of Arlington, FRANK L. BALL
Community Efforts to Improve Schools in Arlington County
George Nicholas Saegmuller, JOHN F. BURNS
Local Finances a Century Ago, C. B. ROSE, JR.
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County VIII, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL

VOL. 3, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1965

A Chronological History of the Alexandria Canal (Part I), MAXINE GOFF MORGAN
Public Schools in Arlington District of Alexandria County, Virginia 1870-1905, C.B. ROSE, JR.
Fort Scott: Past, Present, and Future, ROY C. BREWER
The Smith Minor Petition, EDWARD F. SAYLE
Recollections of a Doctor’s Wife, MARY KING WELBURN
Closing the Book on Arell’s Tavern, ELEANORE MARIA VAN SWEARINGEN
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County VII, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL

VOL. 2, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1964

The Arlington I Have Known, FRANK L. BALL
Richard Arell: His Times, Tavern and Neighbors, ELEANORE MARIA VAN SWEARINGEN
Annexation of a Portion of Arlington County by the City of Alexandria in 1915, C.B. ROSE, JR
Fort Scott, JON MAGNUSSON
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County VI, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL

VOL. 2, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1963

Frank Hume, DAVID JOHN MAYS
How the Hume School Historical Museum Happened, L.L. ECKER-RACZ
An Incident of the Civil War
Notes on Two Arlingtonians: Basil Hall and Robert S. Lacey, PAUL COVEY
Benjamin Hallowell, Dedicated Educator; ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County V, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL
Jottings from the Minute Book of the County Court of Alexandria County.

VOL. 2, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1962

The Administration of Justice in the Counties of Fairfax and Alexandria (Arlington) and the City of Alexandria (Part II), ROBERT NELSON ANDERSON
The Map of Arlington in 1878-Places and People, C.B. ROSE, JR.
The Early History of the Arlington County Department of Health, R.G. BEACHLEY
Gettysburg 1863: Two Intimate Accounts
List of Members of the Society, October 1962
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County, IV, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL

VOL. 2, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1961

The Administration of Justice in the Counties of Fairfax and Alexandria (Arlington) and the City of Alexandria (Part I), ROBERT NELSON ANDERSON
Alexandria Lees of the Federal Period, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Civil War Military Operations in Northern Virginia in May-June 1861, WILLIAM H. PRICE
Fire Fighting in Arlington County, LESLIE L. SHELTON
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL

VOL. 1, NO. 4, OCTOBER 1960

The Trees of Arlington National Cemetery, JACK R. McMILLEN
Civil War Forts in Arlington, C.B. ROSE, JR.
A Brief History of the Arlington County Libraries, JEANNE ROSE
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County II, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL
Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County II (Continued), compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL
In the Beginning, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
A Scouting Expedition during the Civil War, FRANK HUME
Ball’s Cross Roads, PERCY C. SMITH
The Society’s Seal

VOL. 1, NO. 3, OCTOBER 1959

Contributions to a Bibliography of Arlington County I, compiled by GEORGE E. PETTENGILL
A History of Printing in Arlington (Alexandria) County, ROBERT NELSON ANDERSON
Thanks for the Memory, AGNES M. DOWNEY
The First Cross-Country Flight by Airplane, FRANK L. BALL
The Renaming of Arlington Streets, C.L. KINNIER
Ballston’s Beginnings, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Reminiscences of Barcroft’s History, M. LOUISE PAYNE
The Howson Patent

VOL. 1, NO. 2, OCTOBER 1958

Arlington Comes of Age-The Building and Dedication of the Court House, FRANK L. BALL (Who Was There)
A Glimpse of Arlington in the Eighteenth Century, C. B. ROSE, JR.
“Not by Bread Alone:” Churches Established in Arlington before 1900, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
Chronology of Action on the Part of the State of Virginia to Complete Retrocession of Alexandria County (Arlington County) to Virginia, HARRISON MANN
Arlington Adopts the County Manager Form of Government, ROBERT NELSON ANDERSON
Civil War Letter from Assistant Engineer John T. Smith, U. S. N. to His Mother, January 16, 1865.

VOL. 1, NO. 1, OCTOBER 1957

The Boundaries of Arlington, C.B. ROSE, JR.
Chronology of Action on the Part of the United States to Complete Retrocession of Alexandria County (Arlington County) to Virginia, HARRISON MANN
Arlington’s Local and National Heritage, ELEANOR LEE TEMPLEMAN
The History of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, JOHN F. BURNS
Arlington and the 350th Anniversary Celebration, GEORGE E. SCHNABEL
The History of the Potomac Bridges in the Washington Area, ROBERT L. TAYLOR
Arlington Centennial Celebration: September 3-7, 1946, PAUL A. HILL
Charter Members of the Arlington Historical Society
Constitution of the Arlington Historical Society

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