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

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Cooper Mill ... plant to make barrels for the Alexandria Flour Company. It was later a Civil War mess hall for the Union Army. The name cooper refers to a craftsman who made ...

When heavy rain strikes a centuries-old neighborhood in Alexandria, Va ... Some of them date back to the Civil War. Pushed to clean them up, communities have been building vast tunnels like ...

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.