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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).
The memorial was dedicated on April 6, 1976. [11] [12] It is administered by the National Park Service, as part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. A $500,000 footbridge between the memorial and a 30-car parking lot along Boundary Channel was constructed to make it easier to visit the Grove.
George Washington Memorial Highway plaque, Spencer, Massachusetts. The George Washington Memorial Highway, sometimes called the George Washington Highway or the George Washington Bicentennial Highway, is an auto trail in Massachusetts that commemorates the route taken by George Washington when he traveled through the state.
The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway may refer to: George Washington Memorial Parkway, formerly known as the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway; Virginia State Route 235, currently known as the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Gravelly Point is an area within the National Park Service's George Washington Memorial Parkway in Arlington County, Virginia. [1] It is located on the west side of the Potomac River, immediately north of Roaches Run and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. [1] Gravelly Point visitors watching an aircraft land in April 1973.
Separate bridle and footpaths were included in the 1890 and 1930 plans for the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, as the George Washington Parkway was called before opening. Provisions for such paths were included in the construction of key bridges, such as the Boundary Channel Bridge on south Columbia Island and some short paths were built before ...
The 0.6-mile (0.97 km) freeway section from South Main Street to Route 9 in Middletown is known as the Catholic War Veterans Memorial Highway. A 1.4-mile (2.3 km) section in Durham, from the junction with Route 77 to just north of the junction with Route 68, is a designated state scenic road .
The state highway turns southeast onto Goosley Road while Old Williamsburg Road continues to the center of Yorktown. SR 238 intersects US 17 (George Washington Memorial Highway) before turning north onto Cook Road, then east on Moore House Road within a large field that was the site of fighting in the Revolutionary War Siege of Yorktown.