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The Arlington Memorial Bridge, often shortened to Memorial Bridge, is a Neoclassical masonry, steel, and stone arch bridge with a central bascule (or drawbridge) that crosses the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. First proposed in 1886, the bridge went unbuilt for decades thanks to political quarrels over ...
Arlington Memorial Bridge: Washington, D.C. George Mason Memorial Bridge: I-395 ... Wendell Del Hester Memorial Bridge US 220 / WV 28 / WV 55 (S. Main Street)
The construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge was a seven-year construction project in Washington, D.C., in the United States to construct the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River. The bridge was authorized by Congress in February 1925, and was completed in January 1932. As a memorial, its decorative features were extensive and ...
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.
After passing miles of picnic areas and marshland still teeming with wild turkeys, it culminates with the Arlington Memorial Bridge, symbolically connecting the Lincoln and Robert E. Lee Memorials ...
Arlington Memorial Bridge connection (now Washington Boulevard) south of the Boundary Channel (partial interchange—access only to/from the north—with Boundary Channel Drive) Service area north of the Pentagon. Arlington Memorial Bridge connection (now Washington Boulevard) south of the Jefferson Davis Highway Extension (folded diamond)
Roughly the southern side of the Potomac River from the American Legion Bridge to Memorial Bridge, and the northern side from Brickyard Rd. to the Chain Bridge 38°55′15″N 77°06′33″W / 38.9208°N 77.1092°W / 38.9208; -77.1092 ( George Washington Memorial
As of 2004, the total mileage of (primary) state highways in Arlington County was 39.66 (59 km). Arlington County is one of only two counties in Virginia which maintain its own roads (with the exception of primary state highways, including U.S. Highways and Interstates), the other being Henrico County outside the state capital of Richmond ...