Local History - Arlington Magazine

Local lore has stretched the truth a bit about what happened on West Broad Street during the Civil War. Here's the real story.

On June 9, 1960, six college students, black and white, walked into the Cherrydale Drug Fair.

The McLean Mansion's most famous resident, RFK, was assassinated on June 6, 1968.

Sue Vaughan is buried in Arlington's Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Okay, make that five times…

The Arlington Public Library has a new digital collection chronicling local women's achievements.

Their ancestors came here centuries ago, some by choice and others by force.

Yup. These things really happened here.

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Long before he made his first tackle, Michael McCrary was at the center of a civil rights case that went to the highest court.

And it all started at a government research lab in Arlington.

In 1912, Arlington was home to the world's most powerful wireless station.

Ruth Desmond was a homemaker and a pioneering consumer advocate.