When Harriet Lankford’s children were young, they spent afternoons searching the family’s Alexandria, Virginia, property, Clarens, for Civil War relics ... was a huge history buff and loved ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... hospital system in the first year of the war, local Alexandria establishments were used as hospitals.

Brian van de Graaff visits The Cooper Mill, a historic restaurant in Old Town, Alexandria on Good Morning Washington.