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Battle of Chantilly. The Battle of Chantilly (or Ox Hill, the Confederate name) took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's corps of the Army of Northern Virginia attempted to cut off the line of retreat of the ...
Lost Arrow (5.10) Great Falls Park is a small National Park Service (NPS) site in Virginia, United States. Situated on 800 acres (3.2 km 2) along the banks of the Potomac River in northern Fairfax County, the park is a disconnected but integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. [1] The Great Falls of the Potomac River are near the ...
December 16, 1971. Designated VLR. October 6, 1970 [2] Chantilly is a historic archaeological site located near Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The site was the home of U.S. Founding Father Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) in his later years. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1]
Theodore Roosevelt Island is an 88.5-acre (358,000 m 2) island and national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. [2][3] During the Civil War, it was used as a training camp for the United States Colored Troops. The island was given to the federal government by the Theodore Roosevelt Association in memory of the 26th ...
Glenstone is a private contemporary art museum in Potomac, Maryland, founded in 2006 by American billionaire Mitchell Rales and his wife, Emily Wei Rales. The museum's exhibitions are drawn from a collection of about 1,300 works from post-World War II artists around the world. It is the largest private contemporary art museum in the United ...
Ece Yildirim, CNBC and Rob Wile. Updated August 28, 2024 at 11:30 PM. Ford joins a growing list of companies that have walked back some of their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Ford ...
16,750 cu ft/s (474 m 3 /s) (est.) [1] Great Falls is a series of rapids and waterfalls on the Potomac River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream from Washington, D.C., on the border of Montgomery County, Maryland and Fairfax County, Virginia. The Potomac and the falls themselves are legally entirely within Maryland, since the state's border follows the ...
Potomac Yard as a rail yard in the 1980s Potomac Yard as a mixed-use neighborhood in 2021. Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the ...