Historical Markers in Arlington County, Virginia
101st Airborne Division
104th Infantry Division
12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
13th Airborne Division
144th Army Postal Unit
173d Airborne Brigade (Sep)
17th Airborne Division
1961 - 1975
199th Light Infantry Brigade
385th Bomb Group
3d United States Infantry
416th Bombardment Group
423rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
454th Bombardment Group
455th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
484th Bombardment Group
487th Bomb Group
4th Infantry (Ivy) Division
503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team
505th Parachute Infantry Regimental Combat Team
508 Parachute Infantry Regiment
511 Parachute Infantry Regiment
551st Parachute Infantry Battalion
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion
56th Field Artillery Bn
63rd Infantry Division
70,000 Marines Helped Raise That Flag on Iwo Jima
82nd Airborne Division
92d Infantry Division
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy)
94th Infantry Division
96th Infantry Division, U.S. Army
A Bastion-Style Fort Is a Mighty Fortress
A Defensive Artillery Fort
A Defensive Stronghold, Heavily Armed
A Garden Sustains
A Historic Junction
A Legacy Older than the Republic
A Place Where Memories Are Made
A Roadside Respite
A Split Second Made Immortal
A Symbol of Union
Abingdon
Abingdon Plantation
Abingdon Plantation Restoration
African American Veterans of the Korean War
Albert I. Cassell
Alcova
Alice N. Nicolson
America the Beautiful Memorial Grove
Americal Division
American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, Inc.
American Ex-Prisoners of War
American Indian Villages and Captain John Smith
American Legion Memorial of Arlington
American Revolution American Red Maple
American Special Operations Forces
American Volunteer Group, China Air Task Force and the 14th Air Force
American War Mothers
American-Armenian Volunteer Memorial
America's Army
Amphibious Scouts and Raiders World War II
An Attempt to Rescue American Hostages Held in Iran
And How Will You Remember Them?
Argonne Cross
Arlington County in 1921 / John M. Walton, Architect
Arlington County War Memorial
Arlington Estate, 1860
Arlington House, 1864
Arlington Lodge 58
Arlington Post Office
Arlington Transformed by War
Arlington Village
Armored Forces
Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurses
ARPANET
Avenue of Heroes
Ballston
Ballston Metro / The Blue Goose
Ball's Crossroads
Barcroft
Barcroft Community House
Battery Garesché
Battle Honors Unending
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge Monument
Beirut Barracks Victims Memorial
Berlin Airlift
Birchwood
Bluemont Junction
Bluemont Junction, ca. 1934
Brandymore Castle
Bridge to Peace
Buckingham
Buffalo Soldiers
Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Myer
Canadian Cross of Sacrifice
Carlin Community Hall
Carlin Springs
Catholic War Veterans, U.S.A.
Centennial of Military Aviation
Chain Bridge
Chaplains Hill
Charles Drew House
Cherrydale
Cherrydale & Maywood
Cherrydale Drug Fair Sit-In
Cherrydale Masonic Hall
Cherrydale Volunteer Firehouse
Civil Air Patrol
Civil War Outpost
Civil War Unknowns Monument
Clay and Randolph Duel
Communications along the Defensive Line
Confederate Memorial
Crossman House
Dependence on Slave Labor
Doubleday
Dr. Roland Herman Bruner
Drew School
East Falls Church
East Falls Church Station
Edmund Douglas Campbell
Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell
Exercise Tiger Memorial
Fairlington
Faith ★ Honor ★ Virtue
Famous Firsts in Aeronautics at Fort Myer
Field Marshal Sir John Dill
First Flight of an Airplane on a U.S. Army Installation
First Marine Division Association
Flow Of Time
Force of Nature
Fort Albany
Fort Barnard
Fort Bennett
Fort Berry
Fort C.F. Smith
Fort C.F. Smith
Fort C.F. Smith
Fort C.F. Smith
Fort Cass
Fort Corcoran
Fort Craig
Fort Ethan Allen
Fort Ethan Allen
Fort Ethan AllenWhat to Look For
Fort Haggerty
Fort Myer Historic District
Fort Reynolds
Fort Richardson
Fort Runyon
Fort Runyon after the Civil War
Fort Runyon: Defending the Capital
Fort Scott
Fort Strong
Fort Tillinghast
Fort Whipple
Fort Woodbury
Founding of the U.S. Air Force Arlington Committee
Four Mile Run and Flooding / The Restoration Project / I Live Here...Can You Find Me? / Public Art
Freedmans Village
From Brownfield to Playing Fields
Garden to Graves
General George C. Marshall
General Philip Kearny Memorial
George Nicholas Saegmuller
George Washington Carver Cooperative Apartments
Glebe Road & Ballston / Marymount University
Glencarlyn Station
Glenmore
Gold Star Mothers Memorial
Granite Acroterion
Green Valley Pharmacy
Guardian of a Nation's Heritage
Hall's Hill Wall
Harmony of Friendship
Harry W. Gray House
Here We Remember Them All
History of Bocce Ball
Honoring the Women Who Served
Hume School
Hunter's Crossroads
Ignace Jan Paderewski
In Honor of All Who Serve Our Country
Indian Warriors and Their Brothers
John Ball House
John C. McKinney Memorial Stables
John Saegmuller House
Jumping Mustangs
Khe Sanh Veterans
Kitchen Garden
Known Units Garrisoned at Fort Runyon
Korean War
Korean War Contemplative Bench
Lacey Car Barn
Lancaster Monument
Landing Craft Support Ships
Lest We Forget
Lexington Minute Men
Lieut. Col. Edmund Rice
Little Falls Road
Lives of the Soldiers
Lomax AME Zion Church
Long Bridge Park: A Community Space
Long Haul
Mace Park
Macedonia Baptist Church
Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell
Mary Carlin House
Mary Randolph
Mast of the USS Maine
Matthew Alexander Henson
Maury School
Maywood
McClellan Gate
Memorial to US Airmen killed in Denmark
Merrill's Marauders
Military Chaplains Association Memorial
Military Officers Association of America Memorial
Minor's Hill
Missions Critical
Modern Liberation
Montford Point Marines
Moses Ball Grant
Mount Vernon Trail
Mount Vernon Trail
Mt. Olivet Methodist Church
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Nauck: A Neighborhood History
Naval Combat Demolition Units
New and Renewed Land
No Greater Love POW-MIA Memorial
Old Ball Family Burial Ground
Operation Restore Hope
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Northwest 1
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southwest 4
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southwest 5
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southwest 6
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southwest 7
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southwest 8
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southwest 9
Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, West Cornerstone
Origins
Orville Wrights First Virginia Flight
Pan American Airways Flight 103 Memorial Cairn
Paying Tribute
Pearl Harbor Survivors Association
Peck Chevrolet
Pentagon Memorial
Piecing the Past Together
Pimmit Run and Chain Bridge
Platforms of Power
Prospect Hill
Protecting the Fort
Purple Heart Memorial
R Adams Cowley
RADM Paul A. Holmberg
Reeb Hall
Reevesland
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Robert Edwin Peary
Rockwell Field
Ronald Reagan
Rosslyn
Rosslyn Station
Rough Riders
Saegmuller Public School
Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Marines of African and Asian-Pacific Descent
Seabees ~ Can Do
Seafarers Memorial
Selina Gray
Site of Arlington Chapel
Something More Than A Statue
Southern-Shreve Cemetery
Spanish American War Memorial
Spanish-American War Nurses Memorial
Spirit of the Elbe
St. John's Baptist Church
Stratford Junior High School
Swiss Internees
Take Action!
Taking Action: Barbara Johns
Taking Action: Dorothy M. Bigelow Hamm
Taking Action: E. Leslie Hamm, Jr.
Taking Action: Michael Jones, Gloria Thompson, Ronald Deskins, Lance Newman
Task Force Smith
The 23rd Regimental Combat Team in Korea
The 82nd Airborne Division Association
The Ages of Abingdon
The Alexander Family
The Arlington Line
The Arlington Mill
The Arlington Radio Towers
The Ball-Carlin Cemetery
The Bay-Eva Castle Site
The Blue Goose
The Commander in Chief's Oak
The Custis Family
The Dawson-Bailey House
The Dawson-Bailey Spring Site
The Defenses of Washington
The Embassy Bombings
The Flower Garden
The Glebe of Fairfax Parish
The Gray Family
The Great Falls Line
The Hiker
The Hunter Family
The Industrial Age
The Kingdom of My Childhood
The March Across the Long Bridge
The Marines' Fiercest Fighting of World War II
The Memorial Carillon at Arlington National Cemetery
The Military Order of the World Wars
The Mouth of Pimmit Run
The Peacemaker
The Rakkasans
The Sanctuary
The Spirit of the Cavalry Lives On
The Tulip Poplar - Giant of the Arlington Forest
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
The Union Soldier
The Vietnamese Airborne Division and Their Advisors
The View in 1865
The "Buffalo Soldiers"
They Served with Honor - The Persian Gulf
Third Infantry Division, U.S. Army
This is W&OD Trail: Shirlington!
Thomas Etholen Selfridge
Tomb of Remembrance
Tomb of the Unknowns
Tracks into History
Tracks Into History
Transportation
Travers Family Graveyard
Trolleys Come to Ballston / CIA Occupies the Building
Trophy of War
U. S. Army Reserves
U.S. Coast Guard Memorial
U.S. Fourth Infantry Division
U.S. Navy Bombing Squadron VB104
U.S. Navy Cruiser Sailors Association
U.S. Secret Army in the Kingdom of Laos
U.S. War Correspondent
U.S.S. Boston
U.S.S. Houston and H.M.A.S. Perth
U.S.S. Maine Anchor
U.S.S. Salem
Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia Sanctuary
United States Army 8th Air Force
United States Army Military Police Corps
United States Marine Corps War Memorial
United States Space Shuttle Challenger
United States Space Shuttle Columbia
USS Frank E. Evans DD 754
USS Serpens Memorial
USS Underhill (DE-682) Memorial
Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon
Vietnamese Rangers and Their American Ranger Advisors
Walker Chapel
Walter Reed, M.D.
War of 1812 Memorial
Washington and Old Dominion Trail
Washington's Survey Marker
Watergate Investigation
Welburn Square
Welcome to Fort Ethan Allen
Welcome to Fort Reynolds Park
Welcome to Jennie Dean Park
Welcome to Jennie Dean Park
Women in Military Service for America Memorial
World War II Killed in Action Memorial
Worlds First Public Passenger Flight
Wright Park
Wunder's Crossroads
WW II Glider Pilots
You Are Remembered
"Lest We Forget - We Stand on Your Shoulders"
"Price of Freedom"
"The Borinqueneers"
About Arlington County
Arlington County Timeline
Arlington County, VA has a rich and diverse history that dates back thousands of years. The area was originally inhabited by Native American tribes, including the Powhatan and the Chesapeake peoples, who lived along the banks of the Potomac River. European exploration of the region began in the early 17th century, with Captain John Smith and others making contact with the local tribes.
In 1801, the federal government acquired land along the Potomac River to establish the District of Columbia, including what is now Arlington County. However, in 1846, the portion of the land on the Virginia side of the river was retroceded back to Virginia due to political tensions between the southern states and the federal government.
During the American Civil War, Arlington County played a significant role. The area was turned into a military encampment and eventually became the site of Arlington National Cemetery, where Union soldiers were buried. After the war, the land was returned to its original owner, George Washington Custis Lee, the grandson of George Washington. In 1871, the government purchased the land from Lee's family, and the cemetery continued to grow.
In the 20th century, Arlington County experienced rapid suburbanization and urban development. The construction of the Pentagon in the 1940s and the expansion of federal agencies led to an influx of residents and increased economic activity. Today, Arlington County is known for its vibrant communities, bustling urban centers, and close proximity to Washington, D.C. It is also home to numerous landmarks, including the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Marine Corps War Memorial.
In 1801, the federal government acquired land along the Potomac River to establish the District of Columbia, including what is now Arlington County. However, in 1846, the portion of the land on the Virginia side of the river was retroceded back to Virginia due to political tensions between the southern states and the federal government.
During the American Civil War, Arlington County played a significant role. The area was turned into a military encampment and eventually became the site of Arlington National Cemetery, where Union soldiers were buried. After the war, the land was returned to its original owner, George Washington Custis Lee, the grandson of George Washington. In 1871, the government purchased the land from Lee's family, and the cemetery continued to grow.
In the 20th century, Arlington County experienced rapid suburbanization and urban development. The construction of the Pentagon in the 1940s and the expansion of federal agencies led to an influx of residents and increased economic activity. Today, Arlington County is known for its vibrant communities, bustling urban centers, and close proximity to Washington, D.C. It is also home to numerous landmarks, including the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Marine Corps War Memorial.
Arlington County Timeline
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Arlington County, Virginia.
- 1600: Native American tribes, including the Doeg and Nacotchtank, live in the area now known as Arlington County.
- 1634: English settlers establish a trading post near present-day Rosslyn.
- 1801: The United States purchases the land that will eventually become Arlington County as part of the District of Columbia.
- 1846: The portion of the District of Columbia west of the Potomac River is returned to Virginia due to legislation passed by Congress.
- 1861: The American Civil War begins.
- 1864: Arlington House, belonging to General Robert E. Lee, is seized by the Union Army and becomes the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1920: The name of the county is changed from Alexandria County to Arlington County.
- 1954: Integration of public schools in Arlington County takes place following the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
- 1970s: Arlington County experiences significant growth in population and urban development.
- 2001: The Pentagon is damaged during the September 11 terrorist attacks.