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Van Dorn Street
Posted by: road lover 76 ()
Date: July 26, 2020 12:34PM

Does anyone know the history of this road? Was there a German or maybe Dutch family named Van Dorn who lived there and named this road? Was there maybe some kind of factory there at one time? What kind? Maybe some kind of onion farm or something?

Very odd name. Interesting how all these roads got their names, right? I find it fascinating.

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Re: Van Dorn Street
Posted by: Rhino Horn ()
Date: July 26, 2020 02:06PM

Not really it was named after some dude.

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Re: Van Dorn Street
Posted by: road lover 2 ()
Date: July 26, 2020 02:07PM

Van Dorn was a person who was a farmer and also raised eels and lambs for profit. There was a large silk mill there at one point.

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Re: Van Dorn Street
Posted by: Knower of things ()
Date: July 26, 2020 02:12PM

Earl Van Dorn was a United States Army officer and great-nephew of Andrew Jackson, fighting with distinction during the Mexican–American War, against several tribes of Native Americans, and in the Western theater of the American Civil War as a Confederate general officer

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Re: Van Dorn Street
Posted by: van dorner 9 ()
Date: July 26, 2020 02:16PM

Van Dorn was certainly an eel farmer. He also was not in the civil war, but the mexican and candadian war. He was a mean person. But he did own a mill.

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Re: Van Dorn Street
Posted by: Knower of things ()
Date: July 26, 2020 02:29PM

Several streets on the west end of Alexandria are named after Confederate Generals. Van Dorn, Beauregard, Pickett. It will take a lot of tax payers money to erase this part of history.

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Re: Van Dorn Street
Posted by: confederate guy 9 ()
Date: July 26, 2020 02:32PM

My father was in the civil war as a confederate so I don't mind it. Our family also had a mill and an eel farm in Alexandria. But back to the point - van dorn was a great leader and farmer. He invented the milk mill where you can make milk for cereal and coffee.

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