Rumor has it that Washington made the first contribution. Mary’s in Alexandria, established in 1795, with the financial help of George Washington’s friend, Col. A new frontier opened for Catholics in 1786 with the passage of Thomas Jefferson’s “Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.” The first Catholic parish in Virginia (including what is now West Virginia) was St. Agnes Parish.īefore the American Revolution, few Catholics lived in Virginia, largely due to the Commonwealth’s Anti-Catholic laws. At the time, no one foresaw what we can now see in retrospect: These events were tributary to the establishment of St. It was a 15-mile electric rail line that began running in 1906 from Georgetown, crossing over the river to Rosslyn, passing through Cherrydale and on to Great Falls Park in Fairfax County. Cherrydale got another boost in 1902 when Washington Post owner, John Roll McLean, and West Virginia Senator (and former Secretary of War) Stephen Benton Elkins purchased the developing Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad. Hence, Dorsey Donaldson’s 1839 application for a neighborhood Post Office requested the name “Cherrydale,” after his own orchard that was located behind the current firehouse. In the 1800s, cherry orchards flourished in these parts of Alexandria County (which would be renamed Arlington County in 1920). English colonists farmed these lands in the mid 1700s. These Native Americans often passed through what is now Cherrydale, an area thriving around the Five Points intersection of Quincy Street (formerly Cherry Valley Road), Old Dominion, Lee Highway and Military Road, where St. Native Americans once roamed and settled along the Virginia side of the Potomac, going back to the Paleo-Indian period more than 13,000 years ago. Smith sailed as far as Gulf Branch, a stream that flows into the Potomac off of Military Road, where a nature center is now located.
To Captain Smith, the village’s name sounded like “Nameroughquena.” It was located where I-395 and US-1 now connect with Virginia. In July of 1608, Captain John Smith and fourteen English explorers sailed from Jamestown and up the Potomac River where they encountered a village of woven grass longhouses inhabited by an Algonquin-speaking tribe that called themselves Nacotchtank. Frederick Edlefsen On the 80th Anniversary of St.
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