May 30 in Alexandria history: Wilson drives the first rivet at Jones Point, and Fort Ward Park is dedicated

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Three anniversaries link this date to Alexandria’s political, wartime and preservation history.

A former mayor’s death at the Lee-Fendall House (1843)

On May 30, 1843, Edmund Jennings Lee I — a former mayor of Alexandria, a prominent lawyer and a founder of Virginia Theological Seminary — died at the Lee-Fendall House in Old Town at age 71…

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