An experimental digital history archive that is an attempt at documenting the
transformation and history of Northern Virginia in the past fifty years. This latest version has been created
and designed by Charlie Evans.
Samuel F.B. Morse Artist and inventor opened and operated on this site under the direction of the Post Office Department. The First Public Telegraph Office.
The French artist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) became interested in the 1820s in trying to capture images photographically. In August 1839 his “Daguerreotype” technique–fixing an image on a light-sensitive, polished silver plate–was…
The Natural Bridge Caverns were discovered just before the turn of the 20th century and opened to the public in 1977. Visitors enjoying the Natural Bridge Caverns tour descend more than 34 stories deep within the Earth to get to the magnificent…