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Langley Fork Historic District is a national historic district located at Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia.It encompasses 12 contributing buildings. They include Hickory Hill (c. 1870, 1931, 1964), the Langley Ordinary (c. 1850), the Langley Toll House (1820), Gunnell's Chapel, the Langley Friends meeting house (1853), a day school in an old church formerly converted to a residence (the ...
A prize home lottery is a type of lottery in which a single-unit residential building is awarded as opposed to a lump sum financial prize. [1] Prize home lotteries began to appear across North America, Australia, and Western Europe in the 1950s. [ 2 ]
Roughly bounded by Wythe Creek Rd., Commander Shepard Blvd., Brick Kiln Cr., & Langley Air Force Base 37°05′01″N 76°20′31″W / 37.083611°N 76.341944°W / 37.083611; -76.341944 ( NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Historic
Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The name "Langley" often occurs as a metonym for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), whose headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence , is in Langley.
Before its current name, the CIA headquarters was formally unnamed. [3] On April 26, 1999, [4] the complex was officially named in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 for George H. W. Bush, [2] who had served as the Director of Central Intelligence for 357 days (between January 30, 1976, and January 20, 1977) and later as the 41st president of the United States.
After two redesignations while inactive, the squadron returned to Langley in 1992 as the 30th Air Intelligence Squadron. It dropped the "Air" from its name in 1994. [ 1 ] In the spring of 2011, the squadron's forces were augmented by the 718th Intelligence Squadron , a reserve associate unit whose operations are integrated with those of the ...
The house's initial location at Woodlawn Plantation turned out to be on top of unstable marine clay, which was causing the base of the house to crack. [3] In 1995, the house was again relocated to a spot only 30 feet away, at a cost of $500,000. [10] The house remains in that spot today, sharing a historical site with Woodlawn Plantation.
As of 2017, The CIA Museum maintains three exhibits of important historical intelligence artifacts at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.Dedicated in June 2002 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Office of Strategic Services, the CIA Museum's North Gallery houses an exhibit devoted to preserving the legacy CIA inherited from the OSS.