A brief history of Alexandria County, Virginia; . n prosperous at truck farming. Along thesouth bank of the Potomac in this county are miles of splendidquarries, giving employment to hundreds of men and supplying ALEXANDRIA COUNTY 35 nearly all the stone used in the District of Columbia and upon Gov-ernment work in that vicinity. Future Outlook But a few years and Alexandria County will be one large andprosperous city. Her many villages are already pressing theirborders upon each other and are tied together by a common interestand a common purpose. Her frontage on the river is a scene ofdivers
A brief history of Alexandria County, Virginia; . n prosperous at truck farming. Along thesouth bank of the Potomac in this county are miles of splendidquarries, giving employment to hundreds of men and supplying ALEXANDRIA COUNTY 35 nearly all the stone used in the District of Columbia and upon Gov-ernment work in that vicinity. Future Outlook But a few years and Alexandria County will be one large andprosperous city. Her many villages are already pressing theirborders upon each other and are tied together by a common interestand a common purpose. Her frontage on the river is a scene ofdiversified industry and the demand for her property for businesspurposes is constant and pressing. Opportunities for profitableinvestment were never more abundant and those who have pur-chased acreage property have in every instance reaped profits beyondexpectation, in some instances more than ten-fold. Those who buyreal estate in Alexandria County now can not fail of successful invest-ment and those who purchase manufacturing sites will, in addition. Christ Church, Alexandria City 36 ALEXANDRIA COUNTY to the many advantages, heretofore enumerated, witness a rapidand constant increase in the value of their holdings. The pressureof population upon area and upon subsistence in the District ofColumbia is forcing her people into Alexandria County, and hermeagre railroad facilities and drastic laws have an increasing ten-dency to force her business men and manufacturers across thePotomac into Alexandria County. The past has been bright, thepresent is reaping its profits and in the future prosperity mounts andbeckons, and a star that rises in the east is leading on to untoldwealth. ALEXANDRIA COUNTY 37
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