‘Community history at its best:’ Documenting Alexandria’s ‘Colored Rosemont’

A newly unveiled Virginia State Historical Marker is just part of an ongoing effort to tell the story of a once-vibrant Alexandria community whose descendants proudly refer to it by the name it was given in the 1920s: “Colored Rosemont.”

On Saturday, Alexandria City officials, community leaders, historians and the descendants of Colored Rosemont gathered near the intersection of Wythe and West Streets to celebrate the new marker and the history of the neighborhood that most people would know today as West Braddock.

Audrey P. Davis is the director of the Division of African American History for the Office of Historic Alexandria. Davis explains that Colored Rosemont evolved as a local white landowner, Virginia F.

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