Arlington Historical Society (VA)

Arlington, Virginia is commemorating the 250th Anniversary of our country and the Arlington County Board designated the Arlington Historical Society (AHS) as the lead organizer of the county-wide...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2024/03/arlington-va250/

VIDEOS: AHS uses our Arlington Historical Society You Tube channel for local history videos. You can see all recordings of our monthly lectures as well as some key local history topics, oral hist...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2024/02/new-ahs-you-tube-channel/

Dr. Emma Violand-Sánchez shares her Bolivian immigrant story, the recent history of immigrant challenges in Virginia, and her contributions as an educator and founder of the Dream Project. The D...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/10/honoring-the-immigrant-experience-2023/

Did you know that our county was home not only to a ring of defensive forts but also to Civil War convalescent camps? In 1862 the US Army established a convalescent camp north of Four Mile Run. T...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/10/civil-war-convalescent-camps-in-arlington-2023/

Historic Gardening at Arlington House History reenactor and Friends of Urban Agriculture volunteer gardener at Arlington House, Sandy Newton, discusses the historic gardening methods in use at th...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/08/historic-gardening-at-arlington-house-2023/

For the past year, the Arlington Historical Society and the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington have collaborated on a project to recover the largely unknown history of the county’s enslaved pop...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/08/memorializing-the-enslaved-in-arlington-2023/

The Arlington House, a distinctive landmark, is owned by the federal government and located in Arlington, Virginia.  The estate was built for George Washington Parke Custis in the early 1800s wi...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/06/ahs-statement-on-the-proposed-redesignation-of-arlington-house/

Johnathan Thomas treated the audience to a fun night of baseball history in Arlington, as seen through a collection of photos and stories from his family, friends, and himself. Johnathan Thomas i...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/05/arlington-baseball-2023/

In June 1960 biracial groups of college students entered drugs stores in Arlington and requested service at the stores’ lunch counters. The lunch counters promptly closed. The students remained...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/05/the-cherrydale-drug-fair-lunch-counter-sit-ins-june-9-10-1960-2023/

Journalist and author Michael Lee Pope detailed the rise and fall of the last great political machine in Virginia. The organization rose to power during the era of Jim Crow, wielding power and in...

http://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/2023/05/the-byrd-political-machine/