Ramsay House-Alexandria Visitor Center
221 King St, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
Virginia, USA
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EST. 1749
EST. 1749
November 1748
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Ramsay House-Alexandria Visitor Center.
The restored eighteenth-century Ramsay House survives in Old Town Alexandria and operates as the city’s visitor center. Preserved timber framing, period-inspired rooms, exhibits, information services, a gift shop, and landscaped grounds occupy the building saved from demolition and reconstructed on its historic site.
About Ramsay House-Alexandria Visitor Center
William Ramsay was a Scottish merchant, city founder and Alexandria's first postmaster. In November 1748, three Scottish settlers, William Ramsay, John Carlyle and John Pagan, sailed up the Potomac River from Dumfries, Virginia, to look for a better trading port.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Ramsay House-Alexandria Visitor Center
They chose a site about four miles north of the creek at the public tobacco warehouses on West's Point, and petitioned the House of Burgesses to establish a town at the location. They sought the creation of a port to facilitate the shipping and trade of tobacco and other crops between the colony and Europe and England. The petition was accepted and in May of 1749, Governor Gooch signed the bill establishing the new town. It was to be called Alexandria, in honor of the Scottish Alexander family on whose land it would rise. A few months later, lots were surveyed and auctioned off on a sultry two days, July 13-14, 1749. The main thoroughfares through the new community became Fairfax Street and Cameron Street.
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