The newspaper offers an important source of information for events in Alexandria, particularly in the nineteenth century.
[1] The predecessor to the Gazette was established on February 5, 1784, by George Richards & Company as the Virginia Journal.
The Alexandria Gazette building on Prince Street was burned during the Civil War by rioting federal troops.
[1] Snowden was pro-slavery and threatened abolitionist publishers William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan with lynching should they visit Alexandria.
The paper is prominently shown in Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 film Topaz.