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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 .
Gravelly Point is a geographic cape extending into Otsego Lake in Middlefield, New York. It is located on the east side of the lake, roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the Village of Cooperstown . The point is not accessible from land but only the lake.
The dam had two arms, one stretching from Beacon Hill to Sewall's Point (today, Kenmore Square) and one stretching from Roxbury's Gravelly Point. These sections of the dam enclosed the back bay in a 600-acre tidal basin. The tidal basin was later filled in and is now occupied by the Back Bay Neighborhood. [1]
The eastern part of the airport was built in the District of Columbia on and near mudflats in the tidal Potomac River near Gravelly Point, about 4 statute miles (6.4 km) from the United States Capitol, using landfill dredged from the Potomac River. The airport opened June 16, 1941, just before U.S. entry into World War II. [1]
It follows the Potomac River, passing through Arlington County, and serves as the primary access point to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The Parkway also provides automobile access to Theodore Roosevelt Island, the LBJ National Grove, Gravelly Point Park, Fort Marcy, Columbia Island Marina and Turkey Run Park.
MDW was headquartered during those years in "temporary" buildings at Gravelly Point, Virginia., near Washington National Airport. It moved to Second Street, S.W., in Washington, D.C., in the early 1960s, and to its present headquarters at Fort Lesley J. McNair in 1966.
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The lake was known to James Fenimore Cooper as Glimmerglass and was a principal feature in his novels The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, and Home as Found in which local landmarks such as Council Rock, Hutters Point, Gravelly Point, and Sunken Island are mentioned. Set in 1740-1745, the historical novels describe the lake as being somewhat beyond ...