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Arlington Ridge Park, also known as the Nevius Tract, is a historic park property located in Arlington County, Virginia. The property lies within the boundaries of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. It includes the Marine Corps War Memorial (1954), also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial; and the Netherlands Carillon (1960). [3]
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).
Location of Arlington County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
Highway sign along U.S. Route 1 to Rosslyn. In 2009, the county maintains 376 miles (605 km) of roads. [1] As of 2004, the total mileage of (primary) state highways in Arlington County was 39.66 (59 km).
A 44-year-old man who was injured in an Arlington car crash after driving the wrong way has died, the Arlington Police Department said in a news release Friday.
Rosslyn is a transportation hub for the subway and highway systems. It contains the intersection of U.S. Route 29 (Frances Scott Key Bridge and Lee Highway), Virginia State Route 110 (Richmond Highway), the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and I-66 (Custis Memorial Parkway). U.S. Route 50 (Arlington Boulevard) connects with all of these ...
Storybridge is getting set to host its Dream and Donate Martin Luther King Weekend Community Book Drive, to be held Jan. 13 through Jan. 15 from noon to 4 p.m. at the United Supermarket located at ...