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Interstate 81 (Virginia)
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Interstate 81 is an 855-mile long highway. In the U. S. state of Virginia, I-81 runs for 324.92 miles and it is also the longest Interstate highway within the borders of Virginia. It stretches from the Tennessee state line near Bristol to the West Virginia state line near Winchester, Interstate 81 enters Bristol, Virginia from Tennessee and runs primarily along the mountains of western Virginia. For most of its length, I-81 parallels U. S. Route 11, I-81 runs concurrently with Interstate 77 in Wytheville, Virginia for about 10 miles in a notable example of a wrong-way concurrency, both I-81 south and I-77 north share the same roadbed there. Further north, the highway runs concurrently with several miles of Interstate 64. The state has proposed to widen its entire portion of I-81 to a minimum of three or four lanes in each direction to accommodate increased traffic and to toll non-passenger vehicles. Some sections of the new Virginia I-81 may completely separate car, between exits 315 and 317 the state has proposed to widen it to 4 lanes for this 2 mile portion in Winchester, Virginia. org I-81 Corridor in Virginia by VDOT
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Interstate 81
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Middletown, VA
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Middletown is a town in Frederick County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,265 at the 2010 census, Belle Grove Plantation, about a mile southwest of Middletown, was first settled in about 1750 and its historic Federal-style manor house was completed in 1797. Middletown was the site of military operations in the American Civil War including the Battle of Cedar Creek. The area where this occurred has been protected as part of the Cedar Creek. Wayside Theatre, also located in Middletown, was one of Virginias oldest professional live theaters, the town is home to Lord Fairfax Community College. In 2012 the town of Middletown elected the youngest Mayor in Frederick County history at the age of 24, Middletown is located at 39°1′41″N 78°16′45″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 0.6 square miles. At the 2000 census, there were 1,015 people,409 households and 280 families residing in the town, the population density was 1,851.9 per square mile. There were 432 housing units at a density of 788.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 93. 69% White,4. 43% African American,0. 20% Native American,0. 39% Asian,0. 30% Pacific Islander, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 79% of the population. 27. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.96. 26. 7% of the population were under the age of 18,8. 4% from 18 to 24,32. 9% from 25 to 44,20. 5% from 45 to 64, the median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.0 males. The median household income was $36,538 and the family income was $42,031. Males had an income of $30,893 and females $23,125. The per capita income was $18,613, about 6. 8% of families and 7. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4. 9% of those under age 18 and 11. 9% of those age 65 or over. Media related to Middletown, Virginia at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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The Wayside Inn (1797) in Middletown, Virginia.
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U.S. Route 340 in Virginia
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A short separate piece crosses northern Loudoun County on its way from West Virginia to Maryland. US340 begins at an intersection with US11 north of Greenville and just east of US 11s interchange with I-81, the U. S. highway heads northeast as two-lane Stuarts Draft Highway through the village of Stuarts Draft. In the hamlet of Ladd, US340 temporarily expands into a divided highway for its interchange with I-64. The U. S. highway continues into the independent city of Waynesboro as two-lane Rosser Avenue, on the western edge of downtown Waynesboro, US340 intersects US250, which heads west as Main Street and straight northeast as Broad Street. US340 continues north as East Side Highway, which parallels the South River, the U. S. highway enters Rockingham County as it passes through the town of Grottoes, where US340 intersects SR256, which provides access to Grand Caverns. US340 meets the end of SR253 near Port Republic. US340 continues northeast parallel to the South Fork Shenandoah River through the communities of Lynnwood, US33 continues north as Stuart Avenue through Elkton to the Page County line. US340 heads north through the Page Valley between Massanutten Mountain to the west and Blue Ridge Mountain to the east. The U. S. highway passes through the community of Verbena and the town of Shenandoah. At Grove Hill, US340 crosses to the west side of the South Fork Shenandoah River, the U. S. highway passes through the hamlet of Newport before meeting the southern end of US340 Business, which heads east and then north through Alma and Stanley. US340 heads through Battle Creek and meets US211 at Intersections, US211 heads west and crosses Massanutten Mountain at New Market Gap. US340 and US211 run concurrently northeast toward Luray, passing through Salem, the two U. S. highways head northeast to bypass Luray where US211 Business heads east into the town just south of Luray Caverns. After crossing Hawksbill Creek, US340 leaves US211 at an interchange with the end of US340 Business. US340 continues northeast as Stonewall Jackson Memorial Highway through the communities of Springfield, Big Spring, Oak Hill, Rileyville, the U. S. highway enters Warren County at the hamlet of Overall and continues through Bentonville, the site of Shenandoah River Raymond R. At the northern end of the Page Valley, US340 temporarily expands to a divided highway. The U. S. highway heads through town as Royal Avenue and becomes concurrent with SR55 at South Street, the three highways continue as a four-lane undivided highway that makes a right angle turn west onto 14th Street then a right angle turn north onto Shenandoah Avenue. US340 and US522 continues north as Winchester Road, which becomes a divided highway just south of the U. S. highways interchange with I-66. US340 and US522 run concurrently and briefly pass through Frederick County on their way to Double Tollgate in the southwest corner of Clarke County, SR277 heads west and US340 heads east away from US522 as Lord Fairfax Highway
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Route 340 thru
Grottoes, Virginia.
U.S. Route 340 in Virginia
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U.S. Route 522 in Virginia
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U. S. Route 522 is a part of the U. S. Highway System that runs from Chase City, Virginia to Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. In Virginia, the U. S. highway runs 159.65 miles from its terminus at US60 in Chase City north to the West Virginia state line near Cross Junction. In the Piedmont of central Virginia, US522 is a highway connecting several county seats, including Powhatan, Goochland. North of Culpeper, the U. S. highway increases in importance, crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains, connecting Culpeper with Sperryville and Front Royal. US522 is mostly a divided highway north of Front Royal, where it passes through the Shenandoah Valley. The U. S. highway is part of the National Highway System from SR37 near Winchester north to the West Virginia state line, US522 begins at an intersection with US60 in Powhatan. The roadway continues on the side of the intersection as State Route 1002. US522 heads north as Maidens Road, passing through the countryside of Powhatan County before crossing the James River, US522 continues north through the villages of Sandy Hook and Gum Spring, where the highway enters Louisa County. In Gum Spring, the U. S. highway intersects the highway between Richmond and Charlottesville, U. S. Route 250, and the express connection. US522 heads north as Cross County Road, bridging the South Anna River and passing through Cuckoo, North of Cuckoo, the highways name is Pendleton Road until becoming Mineral Avenue in the town of Mineral, where the highway parallels CSXs Piedmont Subdivision. US522 and SR208 head north toward Lake Anna, an impoundment of the North Anna River, US522 heads straight north, passing to the east of Lahore before intersecting SR20 near Unionville. The U. S. highway veers northwest to cross the Rapidan River, entering Culpeper County, just southeast of Culpeper, US522 meets SR3, which it joins in a concurrency northwest to Culpeper. SR3 reaches its terminus at US15 Business, which joins US522 in a concurrency west to Main Street. The U. S. highway and the two routes head north through downtown Culpeper to Evans Street, where US522 turns west. US522 heads north into the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Culpeper County as Sperryville Pike, the U. S. highway passes through the village of Boston before entering Rappahannock. US522 passes through a gap between Butler Mountain and Bessie Bell Mountain on its way to Woodville, the U. S. highway meets the northern end of SR231 before reaching the village of Sperryville. In Sperryville, US522 joins US211 in a concurrency, US211 and US522 head north as a four-lane divided highway, passing by the Rappahannock County seat of Washington, which is served by US211 Business. East of Washington, US211 continues east toward Warrenton while US522 turns north toward Front Royal, US522 continues north as Zachary Taylor Highway, passing through the villages of Flint Hill and Huntly before ascending to Chester Gap, where US522 crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains
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US 522 highlighted in red
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Front Royal, VA
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Front Royal is a town in Warren County, Virginia, United States. The population was 14,440 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Warren County. The entire Shenandoah Valley including the area to become Front Royal was annexed and claimed for hunting by the Iroquois Confederation during the later Beaver Wars, some bands of the Shawnee settled in the area as client groups to the Iroquois and alternately to the Cherokee after 1721. The Iroquois formally sold their entire claim east of the Alleghenies to the Virginia Colony at the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744. Front Royal, originally settled in 1754 under the name LeHewtown, had known to European explorers as early as the 1670s. The town also had a nickname by the 1790s, Helltown, due to the many livestock wranglers and boatmen on the Shenandoah coming through the area. It was incorporated as Front Royal in 1788, rail service was established in 1854 with the construction of the Alexandria, Orange and Manassas Gap Railroad between Manassas and Riverton. This line was extended to Strasburg in time to become a factor in the Battle of Front Royal on May 23,1862. Lumber, agriculture, manufacturing and grain mills provided employment in the region for decades after the Civil War, several theories regarding the origins of the name Front Royal have been suggested. A common theory is that the town was named for a giant oak tree – the Royal Tree of England – that stood in the square during colonial days where Chester. It was there that the militia were drilled. During drills, a frequent command given by the sergeant was. The command was repeated and eventually shortened to simply Front Royal, eventually their military post became known as Camp Front Royal. A third version holds that, in decades of European settlement. In English, le front royal is translated to the Royal Frontier, within Front Royal, the following buildings, properties and districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Front Royal is approximately 76 miles west of Washington, D. C. According to the 2010 United States Census, the town has an area of 9.5 square miles. In 2014 the town annexed land, increasing the towns total land area to 10.5 square miles. Front Royal is located at the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Shenandoah River, as of the census of 2000, there were 13,589 people,5,425 households, and 3,585 families residing in the town
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Main Street in Front Royal, April 2009.
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Sonner Hall at
Randolph-Macon Academy is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The gazebo at the Village Commons in Front Royal.
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Bing Crosby Stadium in Front Royal.
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U.S. Route 17 in Virginia
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U. S. Route 17 is a part of the U. S. Highway System that runs from Punta Gorda, Florida to Winchester, Virginia. In Virginia, the U. S. Highway runs 255.83 miles from the North Carolina state line in Chesapeake north to its terminus at US11, US50. US17 is a highway in the eastern half of Virginia. The U. S. Highway connects the Albemarle Region of North Carolina with the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, within the urban area, US17 passes through the South Hampton Roads cities of Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Suffolk and the Virginia Peninsula city of Newport News. Between Yorktown and Fredericksburg, the U. S. Highway serves as the highway of the Middle Peninsula. The U. S. Highway heads north through the city of Chesapeake as George Washington Highway, US17 meets the southern end of SR166 just north of the bridge. US17 expands to a divided highway again at its intersection with SR190. US17 becomes concurrent with I-64 in the direction of Suffolk, the four-lane freeway crosses the Southern Branch on the High Rise Bridge. I-64 and US17 diverge at an interchange with George Washington Highway. I-64 continues west toward its junction with I-664 at Bowers Hill while US17 heads north on the divided highway. US17 crosses over Norfolk Southern Railways Norfolk District and intersects Military Highway, the U. S. Highway continues as a three-lane road with center turn lane to the north end of SR196, where the highway becomes five lanes and crosses St. Julian Creek. US17 enters the city of Portsmouth at its crossing of another Norfolk Southern rail line. The highway becomes a divided highway at SR239. At Paradise Creek, SR141 continues along George Washington Highway while US17 turns northwest onto Frederick Boulevard, US17 has another at-grade railroad crossing before the highway intersects SR337 Alternate. Just north of its intersection with US58, US17 turns west onto High Street. The four-lane undivided highway crosses the Western Branch Elizabeth River on the Churchland Bridge, US17 becomes a divided highway again in the community of Churchland, where the highway intersects another rail line between its intersections with Churchland Boulevard. The U. S. Highway briefly passes through Chesapeake again, US17 meets the southern end of SR135 and crosses another rail line. The highway has a interchange with I-664 just south of the Interstates interchange with SR164
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U.S. Route 17
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Warrenton, VA
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Warrenton is a town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The population was 9,611 at the 2010 census, up from 6,670 at the 2000 census, the estimated population in 2015 was 9,897. Warrenton is the county seat of Fauquier County and it is at the junction of U. S. Route 15, U. S. Route 17, U. S. Route 29, and U. S. Route 211. The town is in the Piedmont region of Virginia, east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the well-known Airlie Conference Center is 3 miles north of Warrenton, and the historic Vint Hill Farms military facility is 9 miles east. Fauquier Hospital is located in the town, surrounded by Virginia wine and horse country, Warrenton is a popular destination outside of Washington, D. C. Like many incorporated towns in Virginia, the town of Warrenton has government, the town and the county do share some services, such as schools and the county landfill. In the 1790s, a courthouse was built in the area, the Town of Warrenton was incorporated on January 5,1810, and named for General Joseph Warren, a Revolutionary War hero. Richard Henry Lee donated the land for the county seat, John S. Horner, Secretary of Wisconsin Territory and Acting Governor of Michigan Territory, was born in Warrenton. John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, was from Germantown, confederate Colonel John S. Mosby made raids in the town during the Civil War and later made his home and practiced law in Warrenton. The Warren Green Hotel building hosted many people, including the Marquis de Lafayette, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, President Theodore Roosevelt. Union General George B. McClellan bade farewell to his officers November 11,1862 and it now hosts some offices of the Fauquier County government. Arthur Jordan, an African-American man, was lynched by a mob of approximately 60-75 men in white hoods in the hours of January 19,1880. A group of local men hunted the pair down near Williamsport, Maryland, captured Mr. Jordan and returned him to Fauquier, whereupon he was delivered to the town jail. Later that night, the lynch mob gained access to the jail and dragged Jordan to the nearby town cemetery. Ms. Corder remained in Maryland, estranged from her family, news of the lynching was reported in papers across the nation. Even some foreign newspapers, such as Australias Sydney Morning Herald, in 1909, a fire destroyed almost half the structures in the town, and was halted with the use of dynamite to create a firebreak to stop the flames from spreading. In 1951, the government established the Warrenton Training Center just outside Warrenton. A bypass route around the town was built in the early 1960s, which attracted restaurants, gas stations, and shopping centers, the Warrenton Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983
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Courthouse Square in Old Town Warrenton
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Street scene, Warrenton, Virginia, ca. 1862.
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U.S. Route 15 in Virginia
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U. S. Route 15 is a part of the U. S. Highway System that runs from Walterboro, South Carolina to Painted Post, New York. In Virginia, the U. S. Highway runs 230.37 miles from the North Carolina state line near Clarksville north to the Maryland state line at the Potomac River near Lucketts. US15 is a major highway through the Piedmont of Virginia, connecting Clarksville and Farmville in Southside Virginia with Culpeper, Warrenton. US15 enters Mecklenburg County, Virginia at the North Carolina state line several miles south of Clarksville, the U. S. Highway continues south toward Oxford and the Research Triangle. US15 heads north as two-lane National Highway, which parallels the Virginia Southern Railroad north across the Grassy Creek branch of Kerr Lake, the U. S. Highway expands to a four-lane divided highway in an industrial area adjacent to Marks Municipal Airport. US15 passes through a cloverleaf interchange with the US58 bypass, then becomes an undivided highway on entering the town of Clarksville as College Street. The U. S. Highway turns east onto Virginia Avenue, after passing through the Clarksville Historic District, US15, US58 Business, and SR49 leave the town of Clarksville by crossing the John H. Kerr Reservoir, an impoundment of the Roanoke River that is known as Buggs Island Lake, on the Phillip Saint Julian Wilson Bridge. At the east end of the causeway, access to US58 is provided at a four-way intersection. Ramps to US58 west and US58 east form the southern and eastern legs of the intersection, which mainline US58 avoids via a pair of flyover ramps just east of its bridge over the reservoir. US15 and SR49 turn north, cross over the Virginia Southern rail line, US15 heads north, crossing the Bluestone Creek arm of the reservoir and entering Charlotte County, where the road becomes named Barnesville Highway. The U. S. Highway intersects SR92 at Barnes Junction, Highways continue north along US 360s four-lane divided highway, which intersects SR47 at Crafton Gate. South of Keysville, US15 and US360 meet the end of US15 Business and US360 Business. Highways also cross over the Virginia Southern Railroad, US15 and US360 meet SR40 at a diamond interchange just east of the town of Keysville. US15 enters Prince Edward County as Farmville Road and crosses over Norfolk Southern Railways Blue Ridge District west of the hamlet of Briery, the U. S. Highway passes through the hamlets of Redd Shop and Worsham before reaching Kingsville, where the highway intersects SR133. SR133 heads west to the community of Hampden Sydney and its namesake college, US15 veers northeast and meets US460 at a diamond interchange. US15 joins US460 west on the freeway while US15 Business heads toward the town of Farmville. US15 and US460 cross over Little Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek, and the High Bridge Trail, Highways diverge at a trumpet interchange west of Farmville
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U.S. Route 15
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Haymarket, VA
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Haymarket is a town in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,782 at the 2010 census, a total that was estimated to have grown to 1,909 by 2012, Haymarket owes its location to the Iroquois as the center of the town was their hunting path. It was used until 1722, when a treaty forced the Iroquois into the Blue Ridge Mountain region, due to the use of the area as hunting paths, the location, and later the town, was given the nickname The Crossroads. The town of Haymarket was formally founded in 1799 on the land of William Skinker, the Virginia General Assembly gave Skinker the rights to lay out the town, which he drew to consist of 13 streets and 140 lots. Shortly after, an office and jail were constructed sometime in 1801. Today St. Pauls Church stands in its location, the town owes its early thrive in business to the court. Six years later in 1807, the Virginia General Assembly abolished the court in favor of the circuit court system that was to be located at each county seat. Until 1830 the court remained the focal point of the town while serving multiple purposes. In 1830, the house was converted into and deeded an Episcopal church. During the Civil War, on November 4,1862, Union troops invaded Haymarket, only four buildings survived, three small houses and St. Paul’s Church. For the remainder of the war, Haymarket remained mostly unpopulated, there were only two more incidents, a skirmish on October 19,1863, involving the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifth Army Corp, and June 1863. They both involved the Confederate cavalry, following General Robert E. Lees surrender, Haymarket began to recover and slowly regained its former prosperity and size. Haymarket was incorporated in 1882, the town in Prince William County to do so. The first mayor elected was Mr. Garrett Hulfish and the first councilmen elected were Mr. T. A. Smith, Mr. Charles Jordan, in May 1882 during the councils second meeting, the rudimentary ordinances were drafted and adopted. From 1882 to today, much of central Haymarket has remained the same, the town borders U. S Route 15. While no schools are located with the town, the area is now home to 5 schools – all part of the Prince William County School System. In the 1970s during the construction of the Interstate System, Haymarket became Exit 40 of Interstate 66, giving way to the movement away from a rural town. In the early 1990s The Walt Disney Company drafted plans to build a park near Haymarket
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Spire of the Haymarket Museum
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Built in 1883 in
Greek Revival and
Victorian style, used until 2001 when it became the Haymerket Museum
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Virginia State Route 234
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State Route 234 is a primary state highway in the U. S. state of Virginia. It runs from U. S. Route 1 near Dumfries via Independent Hill, a bypass of Manassas, SR234 has a brief overlap with Interstate 66 for three miles between SR234 south and SR234 north/State Route 234 Business in Manassas. SR234 begins at an intersection with US1 on the edge of the town of Dumfries. The state highway heads northwest as Dumfries Road, a divided highway that meets I-95 at a partial cloverleaf interchange. North of Dumfries, SR234 parallels Quantico Creek and follows the border of Prince William Forest Park to the southwest. The state highway passes many residential subdivisions on the highways northbound side in the community of Montclair. SR234 curves to the north at Independent Hill, which the highway bypasses, the old alignment through the village, which contains the remains of the Greenwood Gold Mine, is designated SR234 Old. SR234 passes through the communities of Canova, Cornwell, and Lake Jackson, just north of Lake Jackson, the state highway intersects Prince William Parkway, which connects Manassas and Woodbridge. Just north of Prince William Parkway, Dumfries Road turns north toward the city of Manassas as SR234 Business, SR234 continues northwest as Prince William Parkway, a four-lane divided highway western bypass of Manassas. The state highway passes to the east of Manassas Regional Airport, just north of the rail line, the state highway meets SR28 at a three-level interchange featuring flyover ramps from both directions of SR28 to SR234. SR234 continues northwest, intersecting Balls Ford Road before reaching an interchange with I-66. SR234 joins the Interstate in a concurrency east to a cloverleaf interchange with Sudley Road. The state highway intersects US29 within the battlefield park, after leaving the preserve, SR234 passes through the community of Sudley Springs, where the highway crosses Little Bull Run and curves to the west. The state highway heads through the community of Catharpin before reaching its terminus at US15 in the hamlet of Woolsey north of Haymarket. Most of SR234 southeast of Manassas, for 15.85 miles from State Route 28 in Manassas towards State Route 31 at Dumfries, was added to the highway system in 1928 as State Route 709. The final 2.50 miles were added in 1929, making SR709 a continuous Manassas-Dumfries route, in the other direction, from Manassas northwest towards Gilberts Corner,6.42 miles were added in 1930 and 1931. In 1932, the rest of the road to Gilberts Corner, now State Route 705, SR709 became State Route 234 in the 1933 renumbering, as did State Route 721. The gap from U. S. Route 50 at Aldie northwest to Philomont on State Route 734, in the 1940 renumbering, the northern piece of SR234 became part of State Route 17
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Manassas, VA
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Manassas is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 37,821, the city borders Prince William County, the independent city of Manassas Park, and Fairfax County. The Bureau of Economic Analysis includes both Manassas and Manassas Park with Prince William County for statistical purposes, Manassas also serves as the seat of Prince William County. It surrounds the 38-acre county courthouse, but that county property is not part of the city, the City of Manassas has several important historic sites from the period 1850–1870. The City of Manassas is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, in July 1861, the First Battle of Manassas – also known as the First Battle of Bull Run – the first major land battle of the American Civil War, was fought nearby. Manassas commemorated the 150th anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas during July 21–24,2011, the Second Battle of Manassas was fought near Manassas during August 28–30,1862. At that time, Manassas Junction was little more than a crossing, but a strategic one, with rails leading to Richmond, Virginia, Washington, D. C. Despite these two Confederate victories, Manassas Junction was in Union hands for most of the war, following the war, the crossroads grew into the town of Manassas, which was incorporated in 1873. In 1892, Manassas became the county seat of Prince William County, in 1975, Manassas was incorporated as a city, and as per Virginia law was separated from Prince William County. The Manassas Historic District, Cannon Branch Fort, Liberia, Manassas is mainly served by I-66, U. S.29, Virginia State Route 234 Business and Virginia State Route 28. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 9.9 square miles. Manassas uses a system of government. The current city manager is William Patrick Pate, the current mayor is Harry J. Parrish II. The current vice mayor is Jonathan Way, the climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Manassas has a subtropical climate. As of July,2011, the City’s population is estimated at 39,060, the City is culturally diverse with the 2010 Census reporting that 21. 4% of the population is Hispanic. The greatest percentage of housing values of owner-occupied homes is $300,000 to $499,999 with a median owner-occupied housing value of $259,100, the City’s highest period of growth was from 1980 to 1989 when 35% of the City’s housing stock was constructed. The ACS estimated median income for the City in 2010 was $70,211
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View of downtown Manassas looking east on Center Street.
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Manassas Town Hall
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U.S. Post Office in downtown Manassas
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Trinity
Episcopal Church in Manassas (founded 1745)
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U.S. Route 50 in Virginia
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U. S. Route 50 is a transcontinental highway which stretches from Ocean City, Maryland to West Sacramento, California. U. S. Route 50, also known in times for most of its mileage in Virginia as the John Mosby Highway. Native Americans first created it as they followed seasonally migrating game from the Potomac River to the Shenandoah Valley, as English colonists expanded westward in the late 17th and 18th centuries, the Indian trail gradually became a more clearly defined roadway. Along the way, small settlements sprang up which provided lodging and provisions for travelers, during the American Civil War, the roads which became US50 were an important travelway for troops, and were the site of significant battles and skirmishes. Among these, the Battle of Chantilly, the Battle of Aldie, during the 19th century, the Virginia Board of Public Works encouraged and helped finance internal transportation improvements such as canals, turnpikes, and some of the earlier railroads. The Winchester and Berrys Ferry Turnpike extended from the Ashbys Gap to Winchester, in 1922, these three privately owned turnpikes were taken over by the Commonwealth of Virginia and became State Route 36. Then in November 1926 the route part of US Route 50 as designated in the United States Numbered Highway System. At Winchester, the end of the Valley Pike, another historic trail, turnpike and toll road pathway steeped in history, intersected US50. US Route 50 was one of the major east–west transcontinental highways in the system of the lower 48 states planned in the 1920s as a successor to the National Auto Trails System. It extended from San Francisco, California to Annapolis, Maryland, Route 50 crosses Virginia near the states northern borders with Maryland and West Virginia. The east–west major routes in the 1920s national grid system were those with two digit ending with a zero. Virginias other east–west highway of this type is US60, which extends in modern times from Virginia Beach across the section of the state to exit west of Covington. It is on a winding, two lane road until it passes the former lumbering town of Gore, at which point it widens to a four-lane highway and it eventually crosses State Route 37 and enters the independent city of Winchester. Winchester was long the transportation hub of the lower Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, today, US50 meets Interstate 81 there, as well as US11, US522, and State Route 7. U. S. Route 17 joins US50 here from its northern terminus as the route exits the city to the east. After crossing the Shenandoah River, the divided four-laned roadway which serves as combined U. S. Routes 17 and 50 ascends into Clarke County and crosses US340 close to Boyce <Google Maps, State of Va. >, a few south of Berryville. Just west of Paris, the crosses a ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains at a place known as Ashby Gap
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US 50 co-signed as
Interstate 66 in
Rosslyn viewed from the
Marine Corps War Memorial.
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Fairfax, VA
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Fairfax, colloquially Central Fairfax, Downtown Fairfax, Fairfax City, Historic Fairfax, or the City of Fairfax, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census the population was 22,565, the city is 17 miles west of Washington, D. C. The Washington Metros Orange Line serves Fairfax through its Vienna station, CUE Bus and Metrobus operate in Fairfax. Virginia Railway Expresss Burke Centre station is situated three miles southeast of the citys boundaries, Virginias largest public educational institution with 33,917 students in 2013 is George Mason University, which is located in unincorporated Fairfax County, along the citys southern border. The city derives its name from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the area that the city now encompasses was settled in the early 18th century by farmers from Virginias Tidewater region. The town of Providence was established on the site by an act of the legislature in 1805. The town was the scene of the first land battle of the Civil War, on June 1,1861, a Union scouting party clashed with the local militia, though neither side gained an advantage. A second battle was waged two years later on June 27,1863, at the Battle of Fairfax Court House, Union troops were defeated. However, the battle delayed the movements of Confederate cavalry chief Jeb Stuart, Fairfax was officially renamed the Town of Fairfax in 1859. It was incorporated as a town 1874 and it was incorporated as a city in 1961 by court order. Under Virginia law the city was separated from Fairfax County, in 1904, a trolley line was built connecting Fairfax with Washington, D. C. The former Fairfax County Courthouse is the oldest and most historic building in Fairfax, the first Fairfax courthouse was established in 1742 near present-day Tysons Corner, and is the namesake for Old Courthouse Road. It intersects with Gallows Road, which today is a commuter route. In 1752, the courthouse was moved to Alexandria, which offered to build the new courthouse at their own expense, the courthouse operated there until 1790, when Virginia ceded the land where the courthouse was located for the creation of Washington, DC. The courthouse changed hands repeatedly during the Civil War, and the first officer casualty, John Quincy Marr and its design was used as a prototype for many Virginia courthouses built between 1800 and 1850. The first meeting of the Fairfax Court was held April 21,1800, during the Civil War the courthouse was used by Union forces as a military headquarters, which resulted in the damage or loss of several records. The original Fairfax County Courthouse was used as the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court until 2009, the oldest two-story building in the city, built in 1873, the Fairfax Public School or Old Fairfax Elementary School Annex for $2,750. In addition to school use the building has also housed special education, adult education
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Seal
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Fairfax Court House, Virginia, with Union soldiers in front and on the roof, June 1863
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Fairfax High School
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Interstate 495 (Virginia)
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Interstate 495 is a 64-mile Interstate Highway that surrounds Washington, D. C. the capital of the United States of America, and the citys inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia. I-495 is widely known as the Capital Beltway, the DC Beltway or simply the Beltway, especially when the context of Washington and it is the basis of the phrase Inside the Beltway, used when referring to issues dealing with American government and politics. I-95 utilizes the southern and eastern half of the Capital Beltway to circumnavigate Washington, the Beltway passes through Prince Georges County and Montgomery County in Maryland, and Fairfax County and the independent city of Alexandria in Virginia. Except for the westernmost part of Woodrow Wilson Bridge south of downtown Washington, the two directions of travel, clockwise and counterclockwise, have become known respectively as the Inner Loop and the Outer Loop. The route descriptions below follow the direction of the Outer Loop, starting at the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River, south of Washington. Most Beltway interchanges provide access to Washington, with I-95 and I-295 from the south, I-66 from the west, and US50 from both the west and the east among the most frequently used. Originally, the entire Beltway was simply I-495, and I-95 was planned to serve downtown Washington, D. C. from the south and north, intersecting the Beltway in Virginia and in Maryland. However, environmental litigation stopped completion of this plan, and the portion of I-95 inside the Beltway from the south northward into downtown Washington was redesignated I-395 in 1977. The small built portion from the north was converted into a park-and-ride lot, I-95 was then rerouted along the eastern side of the Beltway, with the I-495 designation left only along the western side. In 1989, the I-495 designation was returned to the portion as well. The Beltway, four lanes in each direction, travels over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the tidal Potomac River between Alexandria, Virginia, and Prince Georges County, Maryland. The Federal Highway Administration recognizes 0.11 miles of the bridge as crossing the tip of the southernmost corner of the District of Columbia, however, signage for these boundary crossings is lacking. The Beltway enters Maryland during its Potomac River crossing over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, west of Forest Heights, the highway next intersects MD210, a major north–south route from southern D. C. to Indian Head in Charles County, Maryland. Heading northeastward, the Beltway interchanges with local highways, including MD5 and MD4 on either side of Andrews Air Force Base. Past the MD4 interchange, the Beltway turns north through Glenarden, the Beltway then interchanges with US 50/unsigned I-595, a major highway from downtown Washington eastward to Annapolis, Maryland, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Marylands Eastern Shore. Both US50 and MD450 provide access to the New Carrollton Metro, MARC commuter rail, and Amtrak stations, turning northwest, the Beltway then enters Greenbelt Park, intersecting the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in the northeastern edge of the park. Just after the B-W Parkway, I-95/I-495 passes an interchange with MD201, now turned fully west, the Beltway runs through the northern edge of College Park, interchanging with the access roadway for the Greenbelt Metro and MARC commuter rail stations, then US1. Beyond the US1 interchange, I-95 separates from I-495 at the College Park Interchange, I-495 continues west, alone, on the Capital Beltway, while I-95 turns northeast towards Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston
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A Maryland stretch of Interstate 495 in October 2005.
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Interstate 495
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Virginia-Welcomes-You sign on the Inner Loop over the Wilson Bridge. A short stretch of the bridge just before this sign is in the
District of Columbia.
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I-95/I-495 and I-295 interchange in Maryland seen from the air above the Potomac River (2012)
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Dunn Loring, VA
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Dunn Loring is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,803 at the 2010 census, Dunn Loring, the earliest platted subdivision in Fairfax County and possibly the Commonwealth of Virginia, was founded in 1886. B. Clarke and his wife on June 8,1886, Loring, a former congressman and Commissioner of Agriculture, and George H. LeFetra, a Washington temperance hotel proprietor. The Town of Dunn Loring was advertised for residential sales in 1887, the Loring Land and Improvement Company built a railroad station and a post office, but shortly thereafter General Dunn died, and the development stagnated. In 1912, Fairfax Shield McCandlish bought out the interests of the developers, consolidated parcels, following World War II, the area began to develop as part of Metropolitan Washington, D. C. Dunn Loring is located in northeastern Fairfax County at 38°53′31″N 77°13′52″W and it is bordered to the west by the town of Vienna, to the north by Tysons Corner, to the east by the Capital Beltway, and to the south by Interstate 66. Dunn Loring is 14 miles west of downtown Washington, D. C, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.4 square miles, all of it land. Several perennial streams of Accotink Creeks Long Branch stream run through the subdivision, as of the census of 2000, there were 7,861 people,2,668 households, and 2,038 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 3,855.9 people per square mile, there were 2,711 housing units at an average density of 1,329. 8/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 74. 14% White,3. 00% African American,0. 29% Native American,15. 24% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,4. 13% from other races, and 3. 18% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9. 87% of the population,14. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 4. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.90 and the family size was 3.18. In the CDP, the population was out with 24. 0% under the age of 18,6. 2% from 18 to 24,34. 1% from 25 to 44,24. 8% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 102.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.0 males. Like other surrounding areas in Fairfax County, Dunn Loring is an affluent neighborhood with the income for a household in the CDP at $204,797. About 0. 4% of families and 3. 1% of the population were below the poverty line and it is also served by the Dunn Loring station on the Washington Metros Orange Line
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Location of Dunn Loring in
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Virginia State Route 267
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State Route 267 is a primary state highway in the US state of Virginia. The combined roadway provides a road for commuting and a free road for access to Washington Dulles International Airport. The Dulles Access Roads median hosts the Silver Line of the Washington Metro for much of the length between Reston and Falls Church, the Dulles Access Road is a four-lane,13. 65-mile highway that runs inside the Dulles Toll Road along its median. The Access Road was built from the Beltway as part of the construction of Dulles Airport and it was extended to I-66 in 1985. The Dulles Airport Access Road can be used only for travel to and from Dulles Airport, since the opening of the Dulles Toll Road, the only major modification to the Access Road was the construction of a flyover exit ramp from the eastbound Access Road to State Route 7. This ramp bypasses congestion associated with the toll plaza, where traffic from Dulles Airport attempts to exit at Route 7. The Dulles Toll Road is an eight-lane,16. 15-mile toll road that runs outside the Dulles Access Road and it was built in 1984 by the Virginia Department of Transportation as a toll highway, because conventional funding was not available. Officially, the road is named the Omer L. Hirst – Adelard L. Brault Expressway, however, the road is rarely referred to by that name. The speed limit is 55 miles per hour, and the construction had two lanes in each direction. A third lane was built to serve HOV traffic in 1992, for a short period between the end of construction and the start of HOV limits, drivers of single passenger vehicles used the lane and contacted government officials opposing the HOV policy. In response, Congress passed special legislation prohibiting the imposition of HOV restrictions on the route, as a compromise to resolve the situation, Virginia decided to lift the HOV restriction and to construct a fourth lane in each direction to serve HOV traffic. However, unlike the third lane, officials did not allow use at the end of construction in 1998. As a practical matter, the right of way could not fit any additional lanes other than the current six in each direction, however, Rep. Frank Wolf again threatened to pass federal legislation prohibiting the fourth lane to be limited to HOV traffic. In 2005, five companies submitted proposals to VDOT to privatize the toll road which included payments to Virginia that could be used for transportation. In response MWAA made its own proposal to take operation of the toll road from VDOT, assuming associated debts. Access Road traffic to State Route 7 gets a separate exit ramp from those of the Toll Road, through December 31,2013, a main toll plaza west of the Beltway interchange collects a $1.75 toll in both directions for two-axle vehicles. Toll booths located on westbound exit ramps and eastbound entrance ramps collect tolls of $1.00, except at the Route 7 interchange, vehicles with more than two axles are charged higher rates. All tollbooths are equipped with electronic toll collection systems which accept E-ZPass, fifty cents of each toll is attributable to the financing of the Silver Line to Dulles Airport
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The main toll plaza of the Dulles Toll Road. At the time this photo was taken, the toll was 75¢. It has since increased.
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View of Route 267 from the Wiehle Avenue exit
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The main toll plaza of the Dulles Greenway
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Falls Church, VA
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Falls Church is an independent city in the U. S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,332, the estimated population in 2015 was 13,892. Falls Church is included in the Washington metropolitan area, Falls Church has the lowest level of poverty of any independent city or county in the United States. Taking its name from The Falls Church, an 18th-century Anglican parish, in 1948, it was incorporated as the City of Falls Church, an independent city with county-level governance status. It is also referred to as Falls Church City, for statistical purposes, the U. S. Department of Commerces Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Falls Church with Fairfax City and Fairfax County. It was part of the Anacostan chiefdom, centered on the lower Anacostia River near present-day Washington, the Anacostans were organized under the Piscataway paramount chiefdom that was not part of the Powhatan alliance, which by the 1630s claimed to have had thirteen successive rulers. Either the Tauxenent or Doegs had shifted politically from Powhatans alliance to Iroquois alliances, the earliest known settlement within the current city limits of Falls Church was on the south side of present-day N. Washington Street at its intersection with Columbia Street. Just east of Falls Church, on Wilson Boulevard, is Powhatan Springs, todays Broad Street and Great Falls Street follow long-established trade and communication routes. In the late 17th century, especially after Bacons Rebellion in 1676, According to local tradition 1699 was inscribed on one of the chimneys of the Big Chimneys house and tavern. That 1699 inscription is often taken to be the first European settlement in the immediate vicinity, the house site is now Big Chimneys Park on West Annandale Road north of South Maple. By 1757, the building was referred to as The Falls Church, George Mason became a vestryman in 1748, as did his neighbor George Washington in 1763. Before designing the Fairfax County Courthouse James Wren designed a church in the city in 1769 to replace the wooden one. Also in 1769 the new Falls Church became the seat of the newly formed Fairfax Parish with the portion of the former parish nearer Masons and Washingtons residences becoming Pohick Church. However, following the Revolution, the Commonwealth of Virginia disestablished the Anglican Church as a government monopoly with tax support, many ministers left due to British loyalties. Remaining ministers formed the Episcopal Church, in 1789, The Falls Church was abandoned, and the Wren-designed building was re-occupied by an Episcopal congregation in 1836 which continues to this day. Nearly a decade later in 1843, Episcopalians founded Truro Church in Fairfax City, methodism came to the area in 1776 with religious services held at Church Hill, a home about a mile east of the Falls Church near Seven Corners. A chapel known as Adams Chapel or Fairfax Chapel had been built on later became Oakwood Cemetery by 1779. The Methodist chapel was replaced by a structure in 1819
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A view off Broad Street (Route 7)
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Metro train entering
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U.S. Route 29 in the District of Columbia
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U. S. Route 29 in the District of Columbia is a U. S. highway which enters D. C. via Key Bridge from Arlington, Virginia, and exits at Silver Spring, Maryland. It predominantly follows city streets, although the portion of the route from Key Bridge east to 26th Street NW is an elevated highway. The elevated section of U. S. Route 29 in D. C. is better known as the Whitehurst Freeway, from Virginia, U. S. Route 29 enters the District of Columbia on the Key Bridge. It then bypasses Georgetown on the Whitehurst Freeway, a highway over K Street NW. After crossing the K Street Bridge, Route 29 then travels along K Street NW through downtown Washington, various alignments of Route 29 used to exist, including segments along New Hampshire Avenue NW, Dupont Circle, 16th Street NW, and Alaska Avenue NW. Prior to construction of the Whitehurst Freeway, the Georgetown waterfront experienced periods of prosperity, the freeway was seen as a component of what would eventually be the Inner Loop, a system of three concentric high-speed freeways. Whitehurst would form part of the innermost loop, which was a roughly centered on. Planning for a sky-road above K Street NW along the Georgetown waterfront was already long-planned by the architectural drawings were released to the public in December 1941. Congress authorized construction of the freeway on January 24,1942, but with the outbreak of World War II and the diversion of steel for war material, construction of the freeway was indefinitely postponed in May 1942. Gas rationing during the war caused the number of automobiles on roads to drop precipitously, planning for post-war construction did not cease during the war, however. In May 1943, the United States Commission of Fine Arts approved a plan for construction in Washington. Construction of the $3.294 million freeway began on June 1,1947, the structure was built by engineer Archibald Alexander. The Des Moines, Iowa, firm of Alexander & Repass successfully bid to construct the viaduct, the cost of the freeway was split between the D. C. and federal governments, with cost overruns to be paid from D. C. reserves. Extra federal funds were procured in the fiscal 1949 budget to speed its construction, construction of the freeway required the demolition of the Francis Scott Key home at 3516 M Street NW. Whitehurst, director of the D. C. highway department, a week later, his successor, Gordon R. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia approved naming the freeway after Whitehurst, the Whitehurst Freeway opened on October 8,1949. Whitehursts granddaughter Maria cut the ribbon during the opening ceremonies. Demolition of the Whitehurst Freeway was first proposed in 1970, the report urged the city to bury the freeway in an enclosed trench and sell the air rights above it to developers or use it as parkland
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Whitehurst Freeway as seen from Key Bridge.
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Map of the District of Columbia with US 29 highlighted in red
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Whitehurst Freeway and
K Street NW as seen from
Georgetown Waterfront Park.
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Washington, DC
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Clockwise from top left:
Smithsonian Institution Building,
Rock Creek Park,
National Mall (including the
Lincoln Memorial in the foreground),
Howard Theatre and the
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
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Map of the District of Columbia in 1835, prior to the
retrocession
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Ford's Theatre in the 19th century, site of the 1865
assassination of
President Lincoln
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Crowds surrounding the
Reflecting Pool during the 1963
March on Washington
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District of Columbia
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Clockwise from top left:
Smithsonian Institution Building,
Rock Creek Park,
National Mall (including the
Lincoln Memorial in the foreground),
Howard Theatre and the
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
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Map of the District of Columbia in 1835, prior to the
retrocession
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Ford's Theatre in the 19th century, site of the 1865
assassination of
President Lincoln
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Crowds surrounding the
Reflecting Pool during the 1963
March on Washington
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Interstate Highway System
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The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States. The system is named for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who championed its formation, construction was authorized by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, and the original portion was completed 35 years later, although some urban routes were cancelled and never built. The network has since been extended and, as of 2013, as of 2013, about one-quarter of all vehicle miles driven in the country use the Interstate system. In 2006, the cost of construction was estimated at about $425 billion, the nations revenue needs associated with World War I prevented any significant implementation of this policy, which expired in 1921. In the plan, Mehren proposed a 50, 000-mile system, the system would include two percent of all roads and would pass through every state at a cost of $25,000 per mile, providing commercial as well as military transport benefits. As the landmark 1916 law expired, new legislation was passed—the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 and this new road construction initiative once again provided for federal matching funds for road construction and improvement, $75 million allocated annually. The Bureau of Public Roads asked the Army to provide a list of roads that it considered necessary for national defense. A boom in construction followed throughout the decade of the 1920s. As automobile traffic increased, planners saw a need for such a national system to supplement the existing, largely non-freeway. By the late 1930s, planning had expanded to a system of new superhighways, in 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave Thomas MacDonald, chief at the Bureau of Public Roads, a hand-drawn map of the United States marked with eight superhighway corridors for study. He recognized that the system would also provide key ground transport routes for military supplies. The publication in 1955 of the General Location of National System of Interstate Highways, informally known as the Yellow Book, assisting in the planning was Charles Erwin Wilson, who was still head of General Motors when President Eisenhower selected him as Secretary of Defense in January 1953. The Interstate Highway System was authorized on June 29,1956 by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate, three states have claimed the title of first Interstate Highway. Missouri claims that the first three contracts under the new program were signed in Missouri on August 2,1956, the first contract signed was for upgrading a section of US Route 66 to what is now designated Interstate 44. On August 13,1956, Missouri awarded the first contract based on new Interstate Highway funding, kansas claims that it was the first to start paving after the act was signed. Preliminary construction had taken place before the act was signed, the state marked its portion of I-70 as the first project in the United States completed under the provisions of the new Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The Pennsylvania Turnpike could also be considered one of the first Interstate Highways, on October 1,1940,162 miles of the highway now designated I‑70 and I‑76 opened between Irwin and Carlisle. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania refers to the turnpike as the Granddaddy of the Pikes, October 12,1979, The final section of the Canada to Mexico freeway Interstate 5 is dedicated near Stockton, California
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A rural stretch of
I-5, with two lanes in each direction separated by a large grassy
median and with cross-traffic limited to overpasses and underpasses
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Interstate Highways in the 48 contiguous states.
Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico also have Interstate Highways. (
See version with numbers.)
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I‑55 under construction in Mississippi, photo from May 1972
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Interstate highway in
New Jersey built to modern standards
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List of Interstate Highways
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Primary Interstate Highways of the United States are numbered with one- or two-digit designations. Their associated auxiliary highways have three-digit numbers, routes divisible by 5 are major routes, often running coast-to-coast or border-to-border. Five pairs of numbers are duplicated throughout the system, the highways are separated by large distances which prevent confusion. Below, these are differentiated from each other by West and East, the main list is followed by sections listing the primary Interstate highways in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. There are 68 primary Interstate Highways listed in the table below, in addition to the 48 contiguous states, Interstate Highways are found in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico. The Federal Highway Administration funds four routes in Alaska and three routes in Puerto Rico under the program as the rest of the Interstate Highway System. They are fully controlled-access routes built to the standards as the mainland Interstate Highways. Alaskas Interstate Highways are unsigned, although all have state highway numbers that do not match the Interstate Highway numbers. Like Alaska, Puerto Rico signs its Interstate Highways as territorial routes, many of the territorys routes are freeway-standard toll roads. The title of interactive fiction I-0 refers to the fictional Interstate Zero
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Interstate Highways in the 48 contiguous states
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List of auxiliary Interstate Highways
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The auxiliary Interstate Highways are a supplemental subset of the freeways within the Interstate Highway System of the United States. Auxiliary routes are classified as spur routes, bypasses, or beltways. There are some routes which connect to the parent route at one end and these shorter auxiliary routes branch off of main routes and are numbered based on the number of the parent route, such that all I-x95 routes are supplemental routes for I-95. While some exceptions do exist, generally spur routes are numbered with an odd hundreds digit, while bypasses, because longer interstates may have many such supplemental routes, the numbers may repeat in each state along their route, but they will not repeat within a state. The basic tenets of the auxiliary Interstates are divided into three branches, spur, loop, and bypass routes, each one signifies a different characteristic of the auxiliary route. The first digit of the three digits usually determines whether a route is a bypass, spur, or beltway, the last two digits are derived from the main Interstate Highway. For instance, I-515 contains an odd number in the first digit, the last two digits signify the highways origin. In this case, the 15 in I-515 shows that it is a supplement to I-15, numerous exceptions to the standard numbering guidelines exist in many places. This can be for a number of reasons, in some cases, original routes were changed, extended, or abandoned, leaving discrepancies in the system. In other cases, it may not be possible to use the number because there are none available. An Interstate Highway spur routes number usually has an odd number for its first digit and it may represent the first portion of a contemplated extended freeway, one that downgrades to below Interstate standards with plans to upgrade it later on. An example is I-540 in Arkansas and it may connect two unrelated Interstate highways—such as I-390 in New York State and I-355 in Illinois do. Note that states differ on their interpretation of the convention in this case. In the I-390 example above, the route has both ends at Interstates, but not at the same Interstate on both ends, and is assigned an odd first digit. Another example is I-275 in Tennessee, it is a connector between I-40 and I-75 and is assigned an even first digit, examples of Interstate Highway spur routes are listed below. I-110 in California links I-10 with the Port of Los Angeles and this freeway was built before Interstate Highways as the Harbor Freeway. Later, it was adopted into the Interstate Highway System, i-180 in North-Central Pennsylvania connects Williamsport and Lycoming County with I-80 in Milton, which does not actually enter Lycoming County. I-180 also serves as a connection to those traveling to New York and I-86 via U. S. Route 15, i-190 in New York connects the cities of Niagara Falls and Buffalo with I-90
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Interstate Highways in the 48 contiguous states
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Future Interstate Highways
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Future Interstate Highways include various proposals to establish new mainline Interstate Highways in the United States. This does not include the numerous auxiliary Interstate Highways that are in various stages of planning, planned expansion of existing mainline interstates are also not included here. Several Congressional High Priority Corridors have been designated as parts of the Interstate System by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. By law, they will become interstates when built to Interstate standards, Interstate 3 is the proposed designation of an Interstate Highway Corridor under development in the southeastern U. S. It is planned to run from Savannah, Georgia, to Knoxville and its number does not follow standard numbering conventions, under established numbering conventions I-3 would normally run west of I-5 along the Pacific Coast. The unnumbered Interstate was established by the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act, the Interstate 3 designation has not been officially accepted by AASHTO or the FHWA, but is being used by the Georgia Department of Transportation and others to identify the highway. The number comes from the 3rd Infantry Division which is based in Georgia, Interstate 7 or Interstate 9 has been proposed by Caltrans for State Route 99 in central California. This also serves as a connector to the northern portion of Highway 99. Interstate 11 is the designated route number for an Interstate connecting Phoenix, Arizona, to Las Vegas or Reno. Their rationale was that the Phoenix and Las Vegas metro areas were two of the largest urban regions in adjacent states not featuring direct Interstate connection, the corridor would be approximately 285 miles in length and would most likely subsume the existing I-515 freeway facility in the Las Vegas area. Plans to connect I-11 to the existing Interstate network in the Phoenix region have yet to be determined, the proposed routing for I-11 is part of the CANAMEX high-priority corridor. The projects contained within this portion of the overall Canamex corridor include the recently completed Hoover Dam Bypass project, at the same time, it extended the southern terminus of the corridor from Phoenix through Tucson to Nogales generally via the I-10 and I-19 corridors. The Regional Transportation Alliance expected this corridor to be called I-46 or another suitable designation. At a meeting in La Grange, North Carolina, on March 17,2016, the rationale for the I-50 numerical selection was cited as a number not in conflict with either an existing Interstate designation or currently applied to a U. S. Highway within North Carolina. This recommendation was forwarded to NCDOT for submission to AASHTO, for the AASHTO Special Committee on U. S. Route Numbering meeting in May 2016, NCDOT proposed I-36 for this route. However, AASHTO instead designated the route Interstate 42, in November 2012, NCDOT requested the addition of the corridor to the Interstate Highway System through administrative options with the Federal Highway Administration as I-44. Congressman G. K. Butterfield introduced legislation in June 2014 to add the corridor to the Interstate Highway System through Congressional authority and this corridor was officially designated as a future Interstate with the passing of the FAST Act. Had the I-44 designation been approved, it would have been discontinuous with the current I-44, however, subsequent review of available and preferred route numbers produced two other candidates, I-56 if an east–west designation was chosen, or I-89 if a north–south designation was chosen
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Interstate Highways in the 48 contiguous states
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History of state highways in Virginia
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The History of State Highways in Virginia begins with Virginias State Highway Commission, which was formed by the General Assembly in 1906. In 1918 the General Assembly designated a 4002-mile state highway system to be maintained by the Commission, beginning in 1922, the Commission was authorized to add annually mileage equal to 2. 5% of the original system. These highways were numbered from 1 into the 20s, by 1922 suffixed spurs had been added, in 1923, the first renumbering was implemented, in which State Routes 1 to 9 became 31 to 39. The spurs were renamed to use rather than letters. The United States Numbered Highways were designated in late 1926, in 1928, the state routes were renumbered again, all the spurs were instead numbered by district, using the district number as the first digit. State routes that were also U. S, Routes had signage removed, but continued to be referred to by the Department of Highways. In 1932, the Byrd Road Act promoted by former Governor Harry F. Byrd, Virginias incorporated towns were provided a local option to participate, and all the counties in Virginia were given the option of turning this responsibility over to the state. However, Virginias independent cities were excluded, typical of the Byrd Organization and its leaders rural priorities, only four counties of more than 90 initially opted not to join the system. Generally, when an area part of an independent city, through annexation, merger, consolidation, or conversions. Under that special arrangement, VDOT maintained secondary routes in Suffolk until July 1,2006, the DoT took over road maintenance from most counties in 1932, forming the state secondary system. These routes were assigned numbers from 600 up, so the routes were renumbered again in 1933. State routes with numbers that conflicted with U. S, Routes were renumbered, and the unsigned concurrencies were dropped. State Route 35 is largely the same as the original SR5, renumbered in 1923
History of state highways in Virginia
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The system used from 1923 to 1928 involved two-digit routes (red) with three- and four-digit spurs (orange). District 1 (Bristol) is shown here.
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Streets and highways of Washington, D.C.
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The streets and highways of Washington, D. C. form the core of the citys surface transportation infrastructure. As a planned city, streets in the capital of the United States follow a distinctive layout, there are 1,500 miles of public roads in the city, of which 1,392 miles are owned and maintained by the District government. The District of Columbia was created to serve as the permanent national capital in 1790, within the District, a new capital city was founded in 1791 to the east of a preexisting settlement at Georgetown. The original street layout in the new City of Washington was designed by Pierre Charles LEnfant, as a planned city, Washington was modeled in the Baroque style and incorporated avenues radiating out from rectangles, providing room for open space and landscaping. At LEnfants request, Thomas Jefferson provided plans of such as Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Milan. His design also envisioned a grand avenue approximately 1 mile in length and 400 feet wide in the area that is now the National Mall. Andrew Ellicott, who had worked with LEnfant surveying the city, was commissioned to complete the plans. Though Ellicott made revisions to the plans, including changes to some street patterns. The District is divided into four quadrants of unequal area, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, the axes bounding the quadrants radiate from the U. S. Capitol building. All road names include the quadrant abbreviation to indicate their location, in most of the city, the streets are set out in a grid pattern with east–west streets named with letters and north–south streets with numbers. Two avenues, Constitution Avenue and Independence Avenue, line side of the Mall. Many of the streets and avenues in Washington are named after states. Important to note, there is no J Street in any quadrant and this is because, until the mid-19th century, the letters I and J were indistinguishable when written. Following that same idea, I Street is often written as Eye Street, to distinguish it from the letter L and the numeral 1, jay Street NE runs through the Deanwood neighborhood, it does not belong to the series of lettered streets. There are also no X, Y, or Z streets in any quadrant, during most of the 19th century, each municipality within the federal district maintained its own separate government and street system. With the passage of the Organic Act of 1871, Congress created a new government for the federal district. This Act combined the City of Washington, Georgetown, and unincorporated area known as Washington County into a single municipality for the whole District of Columbia. Through much of the 19th century, developers of land outside of the city tended to build streets wherever they liked
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L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C., as revised by Andrew Ellicott. 1792.
Streets and highways of Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D.C., is divided into four quadrants:
Northwest,
Northeast,
Southeast, and
Southwest. The axes bounding the
quadrants radiate from the
U.S. Capitol building.
Streets and highways of Washington, D.C.
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Map of Georgetown from 1899, showing old street names
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List of state-named roadways in Washington, D.C.
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As the capital of the United States, Washington, D. C. has 51 roadways which are named after each state and the territory of Puerto Rico. Many of these roadways are major avenues that serve as the principal traffic arteries. Every state lends its name to an avenue except for California Street, however, avenues named for Arizona, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Puerto Rico connect to no other state-named roadways. Most avenues exist in one or two quadrants, except for Massachusetts and Virginia Avenues, which travel through three of the four quadrants, though they exist in multiple sections, why Is It Named Georgia Avenue
List of state-named roadways in Washington, D.C.
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L'Enfant's plan called for grand avenues, many of which are named after the original 13 states
28.
Virginia State Route 65
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State Route 65, formerly State Route 66, is a primary state highway in the U. S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 34.06 miles from U. S. Route 23, US58, SR65 begins at an intersection with US23, US58, and US421 just west of the town limit of Clinchport. The state highway heads northeast through the town as 2nd Avenue, SR65 was designated in March 1958 as a result of the renumbering of the former SR66 between Clinchport and Castlewood. No major routing changes have occurred to the route since its designation
Virginia State Route 65
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State Route 65
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Virginia State Route 67
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State Route 67 is a primary state highway in the southwest part of the U. S. state of Virginia. SR67 begins at SR80 east of the town of Honaker in Russell County, from there it heads in a general northeasterly direction to the Clinch River at Gardner. SR67 follows the Clinch River to the settlement of Swords Creek, there it curved gradually east along a smaller creek, crosses a summit, and runs alongside other creeks to the county line at West Raven. Upon entering Tazewell County, SR67 again parallels the Clinch River at Raven and it then heads east on US460 and US460 Bus. into downtown Richlands. SR67 leaves Richlands to the north, running alongside Big Creek past Seaboard and Coaldan to near Jewell Ridge, rising onto Smith Ridge, SR616 runs along the county line at the top of the ridge. An initial 0.89 miles piece north from SR126 in Richlands was added to the highway system in 1931 as State Route 138. The road was renumbered State Route 83 in the 1933 renumbering, in 1937, the road north to Jewell Ridge was transferred to the primary system. On the other side, the road from SR111 east for 5.52 miles was added in 1932, an extension to the east for 3.76 miles was added in 1934, and the rest of the road east to SR84 was numbered State Route 617. The gap in SR83 was filled in 1938, transferring some of SR617 to the primary system, in the 1940 renumbering, SR83 was renumbered State Route 67, as the number 83 was needed for its current alignment, matching West Virginia Route 83
Virginia State Route 67
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State Route 67
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U.S. Route 50 in the District of Columbia
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U. S. Route 50 and Interstate 66 enter the District of Columbia from Arlington, Virginia on the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over the Potomac River. US50 traffic exits I-66 to Constitution Avenue, N. W, near the National Art Gallery, Route 50 turns left onto 6th Street, N. W. and after several blocks, right onto New York Avenue, N. W. The route continues northeast on New York Avenue through Northeast Washington, beyond the Arboretum, New York Avenue becomes a freeway, with an off-level interchange with South Dakota Avenue, N. E. in the Fort Lincoln area. US50 then crosses the Anacostia River and continues into Maryland, US Route 50 enters the District of Columbia from Maryland on the John Hanson Highway, which, as noted above, eventually becomes New York Avenue, N. E. The westbound route then follows New York Avenue into Northwest Washington, then right onto L Street, N. W. left onto 9th Street, N. W. and right onto Constitution Avenue. After passing the National Mall, it then joins Interstate 66, which it follows across the Potomac River into Virginia on the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge. Northbound U. S. Route 1 is concurrent with eastbound U. S. Route 50 along Constitution Avenue from 14th Street to 6th Street, N. W. and along 6th Street from Constitution Avenue to New York Avenue, N. W. Southbound U. S. Route 1 is concurrent with westbound U. S. Route 50 along L Street between 6th and 9th streets, N. W. and along 9th Street from L Street to Constitution Avenue. Interstate 66 and U. S. Route 50 are concurrent on the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, U. S. Route 1 Alternate is concurrent with Route 50 along New York Avenue between 6th Street, N. W. and Bladensburg Road, N. E. The northern terminus of Interstate 395 is at a intersection with New York Avenue and 4th Street. The New York Avenue Industrial Freeway, if built, would have replaced New York Avenue as U. S. Route 50 east of Interstate 395, the entire route is in the District of Columbia. District of Columbia Highway, from Yurasko. net Washington D. C, interstates and Freeways, from Roads to the Future
U.S. Route 50 in the District of Columbia
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The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over the Potomac River on I-66 and US 50, with the
Rosslyn area of Arlington, Virginia, along the riverbank
U.S. Route 50 in the District of Columbia
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Map of the District of Columbia with US 50 highlighted in red
U.S. Route 50 in the District of Columbia
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The
Department of Justice 's Robert F. Kennedy Building, in the Federal Triangle along the north side of Constitution Avenue (US 50) in Washington, D.C.
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South Facade of the White House, passed by US 50 in Washington, D.C.
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Interstate 95 (District of Columbia)
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The bridge is one of only a handful of drawbridges in the U. S. The Wilson Bridge carries Interstate 95 and I-495, the drawbridge on the original span opened approximately 260 times a year, causing frequent disruption to traffic on the bridge, which carried approximately 250,000 cars each day. The new, higher span requires fewer openings, the bridges west abutment is in Virginia, a small portion is in Washington, D. C. and the remaining majority of it is within Maryland. About 300 feet of the western portion of the bridge crosses the tip of the southernmost corner of the District of Columbia. Therefore, the bridge is the bridge in the United States that crosses the borders of three jurisdictions. The section in Washington, D. C. is also the shortest segment of Interstate Highway between state lines. While he was President, Wilson reportedly spent an average of two hours a day riding in his automobile to relax or to loosen his mind from the problems before him, President Wilson was an advocate of automobile and highway improvements in the United States. In 1916 he stated My interest in good roads is. to bind together and open their intercourse, so that it will flow with absolute freedom. A bridge at Jones Point was first proposed by the District Highway Department in August 1952 as part of a study of Potomac River bridge crossing needs, the bridge would link to U. S. Route 1 and the Shirley Highway in Virginia. In Prince Georges County, Maryland, the bridge would connect to Overlook Avenue and it was also intended to link with the proposed extension of the George Washington Memorial Parkway/Anacostia-Kenilworth Parkway in Prince Georges and the Inter-County Metropolitan Freeway. The Regional Planning Council approved construction of the bridge just four months later, the bridge won the backing of Rep. Joel Broyhill of Virginia, who championed legislation funding its construction in Congress. By November 1953, the United States Department of the Interior had also recommended its construction, Congress authorized construction of the bridge on August 17,1954, and President Eisenhower signed the measure into law later that month. The bridge received its name at the instigation of Rep. Burr Harrison as a means of honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson. President Eisenhower signed this legislation into law on May 22,1956, construction of the bridge began in September 1958, and it opened to traffic on December 28,1961. Edith Wilson, the widow of President Woodrow Wilson, died that very morning, as originally built, the bridge had six traffic lanes, and was 5,900 feet long. The structure was built as a bridge to allow large, ocean-going vessels access to the port facilities of Washington. The bridge had serious problems, and underwent continuous patchwork maintenance beginning in the 1970s. It was completely re-decked from 1982 to 1983, one of the reasons for the excess traffic was that it was not originally planned to be part of the major north–south Interstate 95, but rather, as part of the circumferential Capital Beltway
Interstate 95 (District of Columbia)
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Woodrow Wilson Bridge
Interstate 95 (District of Columbia)
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The original Wilson Bridge from the north in 1991
Interstate 95 (District of Columbia)
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Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge at night
Interstate 95 (District of Columbia)
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The underside of the bridge as it travels over Jones Point Park in
Alexandria, Virginia.
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Interstate Highway
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The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States. The system is named for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who championed its formation, construction was authorized by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, and the original portion was completed 35 years later, although some urban routes were cancelled and never built. The network has since been extended and, as of 2013, as of 2013, about one-quarter of all vehicle miles driven in the country use the Interstate system. In 2006, the cost of construction was estimated at about $425 billion, the nations revenue needs associated with World War I prevented any significant implementation of this policy, which expired in 1921. In the plan, Mehren proposed a 50, 000-mile system, the system would include two percent of all roads and would pass through every state at a cost of $25,000 per mile, providing commercial as well as military transport benefits. As the landmark 1916 law expired, new legislation was passed—the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 and this new road construction initiative once again provided for federal matching funds for road construction and improvement, $75 million allocated annually. The Bureau of Public Roads asked the Army to provide a list of roads that it considered necessary for national defense. A boom in construction followed throughout the decade of the 1920s. As automobile traffic increased, planners saw a need for such a national system to supplement the existing, largely non-freeway. By the late 1930s, planning had expanded to a system of new superhighways, in 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave Thomas MacDonald, chief at the Bureau of Public Roads, a hand-drawn map of the United States marked with eight superhighway corridors for study. He recognized that the system would also provide key ground transport routes for military supplies. The publication in 1955 of the General Location of National System of Interstate Highways, informally known as the Yellow Book, assisting in the planning was Charles Erwin Wilson, who was still head of General Motors when President Eisenhower selected him as Secretary of Defense in January 1953. The Interstate Highway System was authorized on June 29,1956 by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate, three states have claimed the title of first Interstate Highway. Missouri claims that the first three contracts under the new program were signed in Missouri on August 2,1956, the first contract signed was for upgrading a section of US Route 66 to what is now designated Interstate 44. On August 13,1956, Missouri awarded the first contract based on new Interstate Highway funding, kansas claims that it was the first to start paving after the act was signed. Preliminary construction had taken place before the act was signed, the state marked its portion of I-70 as the first project in the United States completed under the provisions of the new Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The Pennsylvania Turnpike could also be considered one of the first Interstate Highways, on October 1,1940,162 miles of the highway now designated I‑70 and I‑76 opened between Irwin and Carlisle. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania refers to the turnpike as the Granddaddy of the Pikes, October 12,1979, The final section of the Canada to Mexico freeway Interstate 5 is dedicated near Stockton, California
Interstate Highway
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A rural stretch of
I-5, with two lanes in each direction separated by a large grassy
median and with cross-traffic limited to overpasses and underpasses
Interstate Highway
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Interstate Highways in the 48 contiguous states.
Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico also have Interstate Highways. (
See version with numbers.)
Interstate Highway
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I‑55 under construction in Mississippi, photo from May 1972
Interstate Highway
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Interstate highway in
New Jersey built to modern standards
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Middletown, Virginia
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Middletown is a town in Frederick County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,265 at the 2010 census, Belle Grove Plantation, about a mile southwest of Middletown, was first settled in about 1750 and its historic Federal-style manor house was completed in 1797. Middletown was the site of military operations in the American Civil War including the Battle of Cedar Creek. The area where this occurred has been protected as part of the Cedar Creek. Wayside Theatre, also located in Middletown, was one of Virginias oldest professional live theaters, the town is home to Lord Fairfax Community College. In 2012 the town of Middletown elected the youngest Mayor in Frederick County history at the age of 24, Middletown is located at 39°1′41″N 78°16′45″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 0.6 square miles. At the 2000 census, there were 1,015 people,409 households and 280 families residing in the town, the population density was 1,851.9 per square mile. There were 432 housing units at a density of 788.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 93. 69% White,4. 43% African American,0. 20% Native American,0. 39% Asian,0. 30% Pacific Islander, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 79% of the population. 27. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.96. 26. 7% of the population were under the age of 18,8. 4% from 18 to 24,32. 9% from 25 to 44,20. 5% from 45 to 64, the median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.0 males. The median household income was $36,538 and the family income was $42,031. Males had an income of $30,893 and females $23,125. The per capita income was $18,613, about 6. 8% of families and 7. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4. 9% of those under age 18 and 11. 9% of those age 65 or over. Media related to Middletown, Virginia at Wikimedia Commons Official website
Middletown, Virginia
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The Wayside Inn (1797) in Middletown, Virginia.
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Interstate 81
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Interstate 81 is an Interstate Highway in the eastern part of the United States. Interstate 81 largely traces the paths created down the length of the Appalachian Mountains by migrating animals, American Indians and it also follows a major corridor for troop movements during the Civil War. These trails and roadways gradually evolved into U. S. Route 11, Interstate 81 parallels much of the older Route 11. Being mostly rural, it is used as a trucking corridor. The Interstate 81 Corridor Coalition, a coalition, was organized to handle issues along Interstate 81, such as truck traffic. As of October 15,2008, this commission has met twice, Interstate 81 is part of the fastest route between the capital of the United States and the capital of Canada. Interstate 81 begins in Tennessee at Interstate 40 in Dandridge, a route that connects to Knoxville to the west, I-81 continues from where I-40 turns south to North Carolina. Interstate 81 in Virginia is largely a rural route with brief concurrencies with I-77, in Harrisonburg, I-81 cuts through James Madison University. It parallels its older counterpart, U. S. Route 11, Interstate 81 briefly enters the eastern panhandle of West Virginia for about 26 miles, serving the city of Martinsburg. The entire routing is in Berkeley County and serves the Eastern WV Regional Airport, the West Virginia segment was completed in 1966 and there have been no realignments since. West Virginia is currently widening Interstate 81 to six lanes from Martinsburg north to Exit 23 connecting West Virginia and Maryland. Interstate 81 passes through the state of Maryland at one of its narrowest points, being that this stretch is only 12.08 miles, this is the shortest stretch of I-81 among the states that it traverses. The Hagerstown Regional Airport is served by this interstate highway, around the state capital of Harrisburg, the route forms the northeastern section of Pennsylvanias Capital Beltway. The route then travels northeast toward the Wyoming Valley, where it serves the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Interstate 81 enters the state of New York near Binghamton. It parallels U. S. Route 11 in a direction, through much of the state. Tennessee I‑40 near Dandridge, northeast of Knoxville I‑26 between the Tri-Cities Virginia I‑581 in Roanoke I‑77 in Wytheville, they joined for about 10 miles. I‑64 in Lexington, they joined through Staunton. US33 in Harrisonburg I‑66 in Middletown Maryland I‑70 in Hagerstown Pennsylvania I‑76 / US11 in Middlesex Township PA581 in Enola US22 / US322 in Harrisburg, i-81/US322 stays joined throughout Harrisburg
Interstate 81
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I-81 leaves NY 17 (future I-86) near Binghamton to head north toward Syracuse.
Interstate 81
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Interstate 81
Interstate 81
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I-81 looking southbound near milepost 245 in
Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Interstate 81
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Southbound on I-81 approaching US 11
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
Washington, D.C.
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Clockwise from top left:
Smithsonian Institution Building,
Rock Creek Park,
National Mall (including the
Lincoln Memorial in the foreground),
Howard Theatre and the
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Washington, D.C.
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Map of the District of Columbia in 1835, prior to the
retrocession
Washington, D.C.
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Ford's Theatre in the 19th century, site of the 1865
assassination of
President Lincoln
Washington, D.C.
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Crowds surrounding the
Reflecting Pool during the 1963
March on Washington
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U.S. Route 29 (District of Columbia)
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U. S. Route 29 in the District of Columbia is a U. S. highway which enters D. C. via Key Bridge from Arlington, Virginia, and exits at Silver Spring, Maryland. It predominantly follows city streets, although the portion of the route from Key Bridge east to 26th Street NW is an elevated highway. The elevated section of U. S. Route 29 in D. C. is better known as the Whitehurst Freeway, from Virginia, U. S. Route 29 enters the District of Columbia on the Key Bridge. It then bypasses Georgetown on the Whitehurst Freeway, a highway over K Street NW. After crossing the K Street Bridge, Route 29 then travels along K Street NW through downtown Washington, various alignments of Route 29 used to exist, including segments along New Hampshire Avenue NW, Dupont Circle, 16th Street NW, and Alaska Avenue NW. Prior to construction of the Whitehurst Freeway, the Georgetown waterfront experienced periods of prosperity, the freeway was seen as a component of what would eventually be the Inner Loop, a system of three concentric high-speed freeways. Whitehurst would form part of the innermost loop, which was a roughly centered on. Planning for a sky-road above K Street NW along the Georgetown waterfront was already long-planned by the architectural drawings were released to the public in December 1941. Congress authorized construction of the freeway on January 24,1942, but with the outbreak of World War II and the diversion of steel for war material, construction of the freeway was indefinitely postponed in May 1942. Gas rationing during the war caused the number of automobiles on roads to drop precipitously, planning for post-war construction did not cease during the war, however. In May 1943, the United States Commission of Fine Arts approved a plan for construction in Washington. Construction of the $3.294 million freeway began on June 1,1947, the structure was built by engineer Archibald Alexander. The Des Moines, Iowa, firm of Alexander & Repass successfully bid to construct the viaduct, the cost of the freeway was split between the D. C. and federal governments, with cost overruns to be paid from D. C. reserves. Extra federal funds were procured in the fiscal 1949 budget to speed its construction, construction of the freeway required the demolition of the Francis Scott Key home at 3516 M Street NW. Whitehurst, director of the D. C. highway department, a week later, his successor, Gordon R. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia approved naming the freeway after Whitehurst, the Whitehurst Freeway opened on October 8,1949. Whitehursts granddaughter Maria cut the ribbon during the opening ceremonies. Demolition of the Whitehurst Freeway was first proposed in 1970, the report urged the city to bury the freeway in an enclosed trench and sell the air rights above it to developers or use it as parkland
U.S. Route 29 (District of Columbia)
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Whitehurst Freeway as seen from Key Bridge.
U.S. Route 29 (District of Columbia)
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Map of the District of Columbia with US 29 highlighted in red
U.S. Route 29 (District of Columbia)
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Whitehurst Freeway and
K Street NW as seen from
Georgetown Waterfront Park.
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Shenandoah Valley
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The Shenandoah Valley /ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə/ is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States. The cultural region covers a area that includes all of the valley plus the Virginia highlands to the west. It is physiographically located within the Ridge and Valley province and is a portion of the Great Appalachian Valley, named for the river that stretches much of its length, the Shenandoah Valley encompasses eight counties in Virginia and two counties in West Virginia. It has been described as being derived from the Anglicization of Native American terms, resulting in such as Gerando, Gerundo, Genantua. The meaning of words is of some question. Schin-han-dowi, the River Through the Spruces, On-an-da-goa, the River of High Mountains or Silver-Water, the most popular, romanticized belief is that the name comes from a Native American expression for Beautiful Daughter of the Stars. Another legend relates that the name is derived from the name of the Iroquoian chief Sherando, Opechancanough liked the interior country so much that he sent his son Sheewa-a-nee from the Tidewater with a large party to colonize the valley. Sheewa-a-nee drove Sherando back to his former territory near the Great Lakes, according to this account, descendants of Sheewanees party became the Shawnee. According to tradition, another branch of Iroquoians, the Senedo and they were exterminated by Southern Indians before the arrival of white settlers. Another story dates to the American Revolutionary War, throughout the war, Chief Skenandoa of the Oneida, an Iroquois nation based in New York, persuaded many of the tribe to side with the colonials against the British. Four Iroquois nations became British allies, and caused many fatalities, Skenandoa led 250 warriors against the British and Iroquois allies. According to Oneida oral tradition, during the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge. The Oneida delivered bushels of dry corn to the troops to them survive. Polly Cooper, an Oneida woman, stayed some time with the troops to them how to cook the corn properly. General Washington gave her a shawl in thanks, which is displayed at Shako, wi, many Oneida believe that after the war, George Washington named the Shenandoah River and valley after his ally. Despite the valleys potential for productive farmland, colonial settlement from the east was delayed by the barrier of the Blue Ridge Mountains. These were crossed by explorers John Lederer at Manassas Gap in 1671, Batts and Fallam the same year, the Swiss Franz Ludwig Michel and Christoph von Graffenried explored and mapped the Valley in 1706 and 1712, respectively. Von Graffenried reported that the Indians of Senantona had been alarmed by news of the recent Tuscarora War in North Carolina, governor Alexander Spotswoods legendary Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition of 1716 crossed the Blue Ridge at Swift Run Gap and reached the river at Elkton, Virginia
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Shenandoah Valley
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The Shenandoah Valley in the autumn
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A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in background
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A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley
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U.S. Route 29 in Virginia
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U. S. Route 29 is a major north–south route in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It covers 248 miles from the North Carolina border at the city of Danville to the Key Bridge in Washington, for much of its length, US29 in Virginia is known as the Seminole Trail. Through Northern Virginia, it is known as Lee Highway, except in Falls Church and these divisions next fought their way across France, and into Germany. In addition, the name of this serves to honor many members of the Virginia Army National Guard who serve as part of this National Guard Division today. Signs indicating this designation have been placed periodically on both sides of US29, US29 in Virginia has probably the most highway by-pass routes in the entire state, having eleven of these around various cities and towns. These bypasses are around Danville, Chatham, Gretna, Hurt-Altavista, Lynchburg-Madison Heights-Amherst, Lovingston, Charlottesville, Madison, Culpeper, Remington, in addition, Interstate 66 serves for the most part as a by-pass of Manassas and also Fairfax and Arlington. US29 enters Virginia in Danville from North Carolina, immediately splitting into business and by-pass routes, US29 joins the Danville Expressway and US58 around the east side of Danville, entering Pittsylvania County, and re-merging with the business route north of town in Blairs. Along the southeastern quadrant of the Danville Expressway between the North Carolina border and US360, the route is designated as part of unsigned State Route 785 for 7.39 mi. 2000, SR785 is numbered in contradiction to the system of numbering in the state. It is numbered as such because it is part of the planned Interstate 785, which run south along US29 to Interstate 85 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The other is Route 895 in Richmond for similar reasons, US29 then continues north where it splits into business and by-pass routes for Chatham, Gretna, and Hurt before entering Campbell County. The next major city is Lynchburg, US29 joins the US460 by-pass of Lynchburg, splitting from it just before entering Amherst County. US29 again by-passes Madison Heights and Amherst as an expressway, the route then continues north to Charlottesville, intersecting Interstate 64 and by-passing downtown Charlottesville. US29 rejoins its congested business route just north of downtown, past Charlottesville, it converts back to 4 lanes and continues through Greene and Madison Counties, and then turns north-east toward Culpeper. US15 joins US29 around Culpeper, and heads to Warrenton, US29 /15 is joined by US17 south of Warrenton in Fauquier County, and continues around the town, with US17 splitting off. US 29/15 continues mostly eastward to Gainesville where US15 splits, US29 continues into Fairfax County, where it passes along the boundary of the city of Falls Church, where the road has two different names. The road continues into Arlington, having intersected I-66 five more times before crossing into the District. The portion of what is now US29 from the North Carolina state line to Warrenton was named the Seminole Trail by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on February 16,1928
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US 29 entering Virginia from North Carolina; The Bus/Byp split, Bus. entering, and Byp. entering.
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US 29 outside of Gainesville, Virginia
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Virginia State Route 55
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State Route 55 is a primary state highway in the U. S. state of Virginia. West of its interchange with Interstate 81 in Strasburg, SR55 runs concurrently with the easternmost portion of US48 as part of Corridor H. East of Front Royal, the highway serves as the local complement of I-66 as it passes through the towns of Marshall, The Plains. Most of SR55 is a Virginia Byway, SR55 begins at the West Virginia state line at the highways summit of Great North Mountain. The highway continues west toward Wardensville as US48 and WV55, the state highway, now named John Marshall Highway, passes around the northern end of Little North Mountain near the community of Wheatfield, where the highway turns south. SR55 passes through the Shenandoah County communities of Lebanon Church and Clary on its way to an interchange with I-81. SR55 continues south into the town of Strasburg, where the highway has a concurrency with US11 on Massanutten Street. In the center of the town, US11 and SR55 head west and east, respectively, the state highway passes under the B-Line again before reaching the eastern edge of town, where the highway becomes Front Royal Road and makes a curve to the south. SR55 passes through an S-curve as it crosses the North Fork Shenandoah River into Warren County, just north of Signal Knob, the northernmost peak of Massanutten Mountain, SR55 passes to the south side of the B-Line. In Riverton, SR55 turns south onto Shenandoah Avenue and joins US340, the four-lane undivided highway crosses the South Fork and passes through a pair of right-angle curves onto 14th Street and then Royal Avenue. Just north of downtown Front Royal, US522 turns southeast onto Commerce Street, SR55, at the southern end of the town, US340 continues south while the state highway turns east onto four-lane South Street. East of US522, SR55 reduces to two lanes and leaves the town of Front Royal as John Marshall Highway, the state highway passes under the B-Line just before its junction with SR79, a very short connector with I-66. SR55 continues to parallel I-66 and the B-Line through the valley of Goose Creek, the highways are directly paralleled on the north by the highways old alignment, Grove Lane. Just west of the town of Marshall, SR55 exits I-66 at an interchange onto Free State Road. SR55, which is concurrent with US17 Business, turns east onto Main Street at Grove Lane. In the center of town, US17 Business heads south on Winchester Road opposite SR710 while SR55 continues east on Main Street, which intersects the B-Line before leaving town. SR55 continues east and becomes the Main Street of the town of The Plains, SR55, I-66, and the B-Line follow Broad Run through the Bull Run Mountains at Thoroughfare Gap into Prince William County. SR55 crosses the B-Line again at the hamlet of Thoroughfare, the state highway intersects US15 just west of the town of Haymarket, in that town the highway is known as Washington Street
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State Route 55
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U.S. Route 66
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U. S. Route 66, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U. S. Highway System. US66 was established on November 11,1926, with signs erected the following year. It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song Route 66 and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s. US66 served as a path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Portions of the road passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name Historic Route 66. Several states have adopted significant bypassed sections of the former US66 into the road network as State Route 66. His secondary orders were to test the feasibility of the use of camels as pack animals in the southwestern desert and this road became part of US66. Parts of the original Route 66 from 1913, prior to its naming and commissioning. The paved road becomes a road, south of Cajon. Before a nationwide network of numbered highways was adopted by the states, the route that would become US66 was covered by three highways. The Lone Star Route passed through St. Louis on its way from Chicago to Cameron, Louisiana, the transcontinental National Old Trails Road led via St. Again, a shorter route was taken, here following the Postal Highway between Oklahoma City and Amarillo. Finally, the National Old Trails Road became the rest of the route to Los Angeles, the original inspiration for a roadway between Chicago and Los Angeles was planned by entrepreneurs Cyrus Avery of Tulsa, Oklahoma and John Woodruff of Springfield, Missouri. The pair lobbied the American Association of State Highway Officials for the creation of a following the 1925 plans. The numerical designation 66 was assigned to the Chicago-to-Los Angeles route on April 30,1926 in Springfield, Louis streets and on Route 266 to Halltown, Missouri. Avery was adamant that the highway have a number and had proposed number 60 to identify it. A controversy erupted over the number 60, largely from delegates from Kentucky who wanted a Virginia Beach–Los Angeles highway to be US60, arguments and counterarguments continued throughout February, including a proposal to split the proposed route through Kentucky into Route 60 North and Route 60 South. The final conclusion was to have US60 run between Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Springfield, Missouri, and the Chicago–L. A. Avery and highway engineer John Page settled on 66, which was unassigned, because he thought the number would be easy to remember as well as pleasant to say
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A remnant of an original state right-of-way marker serves as a reminder of the early days of the road's construction. This was part of the 1927 construction of Route 66.
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U.S. Route 66
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The
Chain of Rocks Bridge across the
Mississippi River was built to carry the growing traffic of Route 66 around the city of St. Louis
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Restored Magnolia gasoline station museum on Route 66 in
Shamrock in
Wheeler County, TX
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Foggy Bottom
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Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington, D. C. Much of Foggy Bottom is occupied by the campus of George Washington University. Foggy Bottom is thought to have received its due to its riverside location, which made it susceptible to concentrations of fog and industrial smoke. The United States Department of State gained the metonym Foggy Bottom when it moved its headquarters to the nearby Harry S Truman Building in 1947, the settlement officially was named Hamburgh, but colloquially was called Funkstown. In 1765, German settlers established the town of Hamburg on what would become the area between 24th and 18th NW Street, jacob Funk, the recorded founder of Hamburg, allegedly bought the land and divided it into 287 lots of land. There are reportedly two more founders, Robert Peter and James Linigan, the three had control of the land until 1791 when the territories were given to the city of Washington and the United States government. In the town of Hamburg, a German community was founded by many German immigrants, in 1768, Funk sold two lots of territory to both the German Lutheran and the German Presbyterian communities. The lot that was sold to the German Lutherans was located on the corner of 20th, the lot sold to the German Presbyterians was located on the southeast corner of 22nd and G Street. The Lutheran lot would not be in use until 1833 and the Presbyterian until the 1880s, the lot that was sold to the German Lutheran community was turned into the Concordia German Church. By the 19th century, Foggy Bottom became a community of white and black laborers employed at the breweries, glass plants. These industrial facilities are also cited as a reason for the neighborhoods name. Foggy Bottom attracted few settlers until the 1850s, when more industrial enterprises came into the area, Funk also set aside land in Hamburgh for a German-speaking congregation in 1768. Concordia German Evangelical Church, located at 1920 G Street NW was finally founded in 1833, today the congregation is The United Church, and is the oldest religious community remaining in Foggy Bottom. Foggy Bottom became the site of the George Washington Universitys 42-acre main campus in 1912, Foggy Bottom was also the name of a line of beer by the Olde Heurich Brewing Company, which was founded by German immigrant Christian Heurichs grandson, Gary Heurich. He tried to revive the tradition of his familys Christian Heurich Brewing Company, Christian Heurich Brewing Companys most successful products bore such local names as Senate and Old Georgetown. During the 1950s, Heurich Brewing also sponsored the professional baseball team. Industry consolidation led the brewery to cease operations in 1956, in 1961–1962, the brewery buildings were razed to make way for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Although the firm was founded in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, the beer was brewed in Utica
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Foggy Bottom Historic District
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Washington Circle lies at the convergence of
Pennsylvania,
New Hampshire Avenues,
K and 23rd Streets.
Foggy Bottom
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The
American Meridian Line, along 24th street north of the
Old Naval Observatory was one of four attempts to move the
Prime Meridian to the District of Columbia.
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I-81
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Interstate 81 is an Interstate Highway in the eastern part of the United States. Interstate 81 largely traces the paths created down the length of the Appalachian Mountains by migrating animals, American Indians and it also follows a major corridor for troop movements during the Civil War. These trails and roadways gradually evolved into U. S. Route 11, Interstate 81 parallels much of the older Route 11. Being mostly rural, it is used as a trucking corridor. The Interstate 81 Corridor Coalition, a coalition, was organized to handle issues along Interstate 81, such as truck traffic. As of October 15,2008, this commission has met twice, Interstate 81 is part of the fastest route between the capital of the United States and the capital of Canada. Interstate 81 begins in Tennessee at Interstate 40 in Dandridge, a route that connects to Knoxville to the west, I-81 continues from where I-40 turns south to North Carolina. Interstate 81 in Virginia is largely a rural route with brief concurrencies with I-77, in Harrisonburg, I-81 cuts through James Madison University. It parallels its older counterpart, U. S. Route 11, Interstate 81 briefly enters the eastern panhandle of West Virginia for about 26 miles, serving the city of Martinsburg. The entire routing is in Berkeley County and serves the Eastern WV Regional Airport, the West Virginia segment was completed in 1966 and there have been no realignments since. West Virginia is currently widening Interstate 81 to six lanes from Martinsburg north to Exit 23 connecting West Virginia and Maryland. Interstate 81 passes through the state of Maryland at one of its narrowest points, being that this stretch is only 12.08 miles, this is the shortest stretch of I-81 among the states that it traverses. The Hagerstown Regional Airport is served by this interstate highway, around the state capital of Harrisburg, the route forms the northeastern section of Pennsylvanias Capital Beltway. The route then travels northeast toward the Wyoming Valley, where it serves the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Interstate 81 enters the state of New York near Binghamton. It parallels U. S. Route 11 in a direction, through much of the state. Tennessee I‑40 near Dandridge, northeast of Knoxville I‑26 between the Tri-Cities Virginia I‑581 in Roanoke I‑77 in Wytheville, they joined for about 10 miles. I‑64 in Lexington, they joined through Staunton. US33 in Harrisonburg I‑66 in Middletown Maryland I‑70 in Hagerstown Pennsylvania I‑76 / US11 in Middlesex Township PA581 in Enola US22 / US322 in Harrisburg, i-81/US322 stays joined throughout Harrisburg
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I-81 leaves NY 17 (future I-86) near Binghamton to head north toward Syracuse.
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Interstate 81
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I-81 looking southbound near milepost 245 in
Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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Southbound on I-81 approaching US 11
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Mile
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The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959. The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 feet but the importance of furlongs in pre-modern England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread to the British-colonized nations who continue to employ the mile, the US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a separate US survey mile continues to see some use. Derived units such as miles per hour and miles per gallon, however, continue to be abbreviated as mph, mpg. The modern English word mile derives from Middle English myl and Old English mīl, the present international mile is usually what is understood by the unqualified term mile. When this distance needs to be distinguished from the nautical mile, in British English, the statute mile may refer to the present international miles or to any other form of English mile since the 1593 Act of Parliament which set it as a distance of 1,760 yards. Under American law, however, the statute mile refers to the US survey mile, the mile has been variously abbreviated—with and without a trailing period—as m, M, ml, and mi. The American National Institute of Standards and Technology now uses and recommends mi in order to avoid confusion with the SI metre and millilitre. Derived units such as miles per hour and miles per gallon, however, continue to be abbreviated in the United States, United Kingdom, the BBC style holds that There is no acceptable abbreviation for ‘miles’ and so it should be spelt out when used in describing areas. The Roman mile consisted of a thousand paces as measured by every other step—as in the distance of the left foot hitting the ground 1,000 times. The ancient Romans, marching their armies through uncharted territory, would push a carved stick in the ground after each 1000 paces. Well-fed and harshly driven Roman legionaries in good weather thus created longer miles, the distance was indirectly standardised by Agrippas establishment of a standard Roman foot in 29 BC, and the definition of a pace as 5 feet. An Imperial Roman mile thus denoted 5,000 Roman feet, surveyors and specialized equipment such as the decempeda and dioptra then spread its use. In modern times, Agrippas Imperial Roman mile was empirically estimated to have been about 1,481 metres in length, in Hellenic areas of the Empire, the Roman mile was used beside the native Greek units as equivalent to 8 stadia of 600 Greek feet. The mílion continued to be used as a Byzantine unit and was used as the name of the zero mile marker for the Byzantine Empire. The Roman mile also spread throughout Europe, with its local variations giving rise to the different units below, also arising from the Roman mile is the milestone. All roads radiated out from the Roman Forum throughout the Empire –50,000 miles of stone-paved roads, at every mile was placed a shaped stone, on which was carved a Roman numeral, indicating the number of miles from the center of Rome – the Forum. Hence, one knew how far one was from Rome
Mile
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A
milestone in
Westminster showing the distance from
Knightsbridge to
Hounslow and
Hyde Park Corner in miles.
Mile
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The remains of the
Golden Milestone, the
zero mile marker of the
Roman road network, in the
Roman Forum.
Mile
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Edinburgh 's "
Royal Mile "—running from
the castle to
Holyrood Abbey —is roughly a Scots mile long.
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Kilometer
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The kilometre or kilometer is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres. K is occasionally used in some English-speaking countries as an alternative for the kilometre in colloquial writing. A slang term for the kilometre in the US military is klick, there are two common pronunciations for the word. It is generally preferred by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, many scientists and other users, particularly in countries where the metric system is not widely used, use the pronunciation with stress on the second syllable. The latter pronunciation follows the pattern used for the names of measuring instruments. The problem with this reasoning, however, is that the meter in those usages refers to a measuring device. The contrast is more obvious in countries using the British rather than American spelling of the word metre. When Australia introduced the system in 1975, the first pronunciation was declared official by the governments Metric Conversion Board. However, the Australian prime minister at the time, Gough Whitlam, by the 8 May 1790 decree, the Constituent assembly ordered the French Academy of Sciences to develop a new measurement system. In August 1793, the French National Convention decreed the metre as the length measurement system in the French Republic. The first name of the kilometre was Millaire, although the metre was formally defined in 1799, the myriametre was preferred to the kilometre for everyday use. The term myriamètre appeared a number of times in the text of Develeys book Physique dEmile, ou, Principes de la de la nature. French maps published in 1835 had scales showing myriametres and lieues de Poste, the Dutch, on the other hand, adopted the kilometre in 1817 but gave it the local name of the mijl. It was only in 1867 that the term became the only official unit of measure in the Netherlands to represent 1000 metres. In the US, the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 prohibits the use of highway funds to convert existing signs or purchase new signs with metric units. Although the State DOTs had the option of using metric measurements or dual units, all of them abandoned metric measurements, the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices since 2000 is published in both metric and American Customary Units. Some sporting disciplines feature 1000 m races in major events, but in other disciplines, even though records are catalogued
Kilometer
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"km" redirects here. For other uses, see
KM (disambiguation).
Kilometer
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Chinese expressway distances
road sign in eastern Beijing. Although the primary text is in Chinese, the distances use internationally recognised characters.
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Fairfax County, Virginia
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Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,081,726, in 2015, it was estimated at 1,142,234, making it the Commonwealths most populous jurisdiction, with 13. 6% of Virginias population. The county seat is the City of Fairfax, though because it is an independent city under Virginia law, the county is also home to seven Fortune 500 companies, including three with Falls Church addresses. At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of what would become Fairfax County were an Algonquian-speaking sub-group called the Taux, also known as the Doeg or Dogue. Their villages, as recorded by Captain John Smith in 1608, included Namassingakent, virginian colonists from the Northern Neck region drove the Doeg out of this area and into Maryland by 1670. Fairfax County was formed in 1742 from the part of Prince William County. It was named for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the Fairfax family name is derived from the Old English phrase for blond hair – Faeger-feahs. The oldest settlements in Fairfax County were along the Potomac River, George Washington settled in Fairfax County and built his home, Mount Vernon, facing the river. Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason is nearby, modern Fort Belvoir is partly on the estate of Belvoir Manor, built along the Potomac by William Fairfax in 1741. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the member of the British nobility ever to reside in the colonies. The Belvoir mansion and several of its outbuildings were destroyed by fire immediately after the Revolutionary War in 1783, in 1757, the northwestern two-thirds of Fairfax County became Loudoun County. In 1789, part of Fairfax County was ceded to the government to form Alexandria County of the District of Columbia. Alexandria County was returned to Virginia in 1846, reduced in size by the secession of the independent city of Alexandria in 1870, the Fairfax County town of Falls Church became an independent city in 1948. The Fairfax County town of Fairfax became an independent city in 1961, Fairfax County was an important region in the Civil War. The Battle of Chantilly or Ox Hill, during the campaign as the second Battle of Bull Run, was fought within the county. Other areas of activity included Minors Hill, Munsons Hill, and Uptons Hill, on the eastern border, overlooking Washington. The federal governments growth during and after World War II spurred rapid growth in the county, other large businesses continued to settle in Fairfax County and the opening of Tysons Corner Center spurred the rise of Tysons Corner. The technology boom and a steady government-driven economy also created rapid growth, the economy has also made Fairfax County one of the nations wealthiest counties
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The Old Fairfax County Courthouse located in Fairfax City (photo from late 2010)
Fairfax County, Virginia
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Piney Branch Mill, southeast of Fairfax city,
Historic American Buildings Survey
Fairfax County, Virginia
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CIA headquarters in
Langley
Fairfax County, Virginia
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Fairfax County is, along with Washington, a "core" employment jurisdiction of the
Washington Metropolitan Area as indicated by this map. A U.S. Department of Labor study published in 2007 described Fairfax County as the second "economic pillar" of the Washington-area economy, along with the District of Columbia. The county has been described in
Time as "one of the great economic success stories of our time."
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Northern Virginia
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With 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous region of Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area. Communities in the form the Virginia portion of the Washington metropolitan area. Notable features of the include the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, and the many companies which serve them. The areas attractions include various monuments and Colonial and Civil War-era sites such as Mount Vernon and Arlington National Cemetery and it is the most affluent region in the nation. g. Eastern United States vs. western Massachusetts, the name Northern Virginia does not seem to have been used in the early history of the area. The Fairfax line, surveyed in 1746, ran from the first spring of the Potomac to the first spring of the Rappahannock, at the head of the Conway River. The Northern Neck was composed of 5,282,000 acres, at some point, these eastern counties came to be called separately simply the Northern Neck, and, for the remaining area west of them, the term was no longer used. One of the most prominent early mentions of Northern Virginia as a title was the naming of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. The most common definition of Northern Virginia includes those counties and independent cities on the Virginia side of the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia Combined Statistical Area. Most narrowly defined, Northern Virginia consists of the counties of Arlington and Fairfax, as well as the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, businesses, governments and non-profit agencies may define the area considered Northern Virginia differently for various purposes. Eight of his supporters were named, among them Thomas Culpeper. On February 25,1673, a new charter was given to Thomas Lord Culpeper, Lord Culpeper was named the Royal Governor of Virginia from 1677–1683. Culpeper County was later named for him when it was formed in 1749, however, in 1682 rioting in the colony forced him to return, but by the time he arrived, the riots were already quelled. After apparently misappropriating £9,500 from the treasury of the colony, he returned to England, during this tumultuous time, Culpepers erratic behavior meant that he had to rely increasingly on his cousin and Virginia agent, Col. Nicholas Spencer. Spencer succeeded Culpeper as acting Governor upon Lord Culpepers departure from the colony, for many years, Lord Culpepers descendants allowed men in Virginia to manage the properties. The lands of Lord Fairfax were defined as that between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, and were called the Northern Neck. In 1746 a back line was surveyed and established between the headwaters of the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, defining the west end of the grants. According to documents held by the Handley Regional Library of the Winchester–Frederick County Historical Society, Lord Fairfax was a lifelong bachelor, and became one of the more well-known persons of the late colonial era
Northern Virginia
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Reston, an internationally known
planned community, seen from the
Dulles Toll Road
Northern Virginia
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Northern Virginia
megaprojects
Northern Virginia
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Map of the
Northern Neck Proprietary land grant c. 1737
Northern Virginia
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Mount Vernon, the plantation home of
George Washington
I‑81 in Middletown, VA
US 340 / US 522 near Front Royal, VA
US 17 near Warrenton, VA
US 15 in Haymarket, VA
SR 234 near Manassas, VA
US 50 near Fairfax, VA
I‑495 in Dunn Loring, VA
SR 267 near Falls Church, VA
US 29 in Washington, DC
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SR 79 to SR 55 – Linden, Front Royal
SR 688 – Markham
US 17 north / SR 55 west / SR 731 – Delaplane, Paris
SR 55 east (US 17 Bus. south) / SR 647 – Marshall
SR 245 – The Plains, Old Tavern
US 29 to SR 28 south – Centreville
SR 28 – Dulles Airport, Centreville
SR 286 (Fairfax County Parkway) – Springfield, Reston, Herndon
SR 123 – Fairfax, Vienna
Parking, Vienna/Fairfax-GMU Station
SR 243 (Nutley Street) – Vienna, Fairfax
SR 7 (Leesburg Pike) – Tysons Corner, Falls Church
US 29 / SR 237 (Washington Boulevard / Lee Highway)
SR 110 south – Pentagon, Alexandria
Main Interstate Highways
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