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The Washington Monument features a 21-foot (6.4 m), 18,000-pound (8,200 kg) bronze statue of George Washington on horseback. Below Washington, (finished after the American Civil War) includes statues of six other noted Virginians who took part in the American Revolution: Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Andrew Lewis, John Marshall, George Mason, and Thomas Nelson Jr. [3] The lowest level has ...
Print of the proposed Washington Monument by architect Robert Mills, c. 1845 –1848 Bronze statue of George Washington in the monument's western alcove. George Washington (1732–1799), hailed as the father of his country, and as the leader who was "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen", as Maj. Gen. 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee eulogized at Washington's December ...
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (Virginia DMV) serves a customer base of approximately 423,000 ID card holders and 6.2 million licensed drivers with over 7.8 million registered vehicles in Virginia. Virginia DMV has more daily face-to-face contact with Virginia's citizens than any other state agency.
The southern terminus of the Yellow Line is adjacent to Kings Highway (Virginia State Route 241) in Fairfax County, Virginia. [40] The line heads northeast on a bridge over Hunting Creek and the Capital Beltway to a station just south of Eisenhower Avenue, which serves several government office buildings, including the United States Patent and ...
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.
Visiting Washington, D.C., after President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office is an opportunity to explore the nation’s capital with history in the making. In 2023, the city welcomed nearly ...
The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, [3] [4] is a 25-mile-long (40 km) limited-access parkway that runs along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS).
Key Bridge seen from the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. in 1968 A 2011 aerial view of Georgetown (background), the Potomac River and Key Bridge (center), and Rosslyn (foreground) in June 2011 Rosslyn seen from the Kennedy Center with Theodore Roosevelt Island in the midground in February 2013 The skyline of Rosslyn in February 2022 Rosslyn looking east into Washington, D.C. Rosslyn ...