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National Landing is in Northern Virginia (shown in yellow), near Washington, D.C. (pink) and Maryland (gray). National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria.
The history of Alexandria, Virginia, begins with the first European settlement in 1695. Over the next century, the town became a significant port. In 1801, much of Alexandria was swept into the new District of Columbia; it was damaged along with much of the rest of the capital during the War of 1812. In 1846, Alexandria was returned to Virginia ...
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the DC area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.
The Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC), is an extension center of Virginia Tech 's College of Architecture, Arts, and Design, located in Old Town Alexandria. It houses the Master of Architecture, Master of Science in Architecture with concentrations in Urban Design and History and Theory, PhD, and Undergraduate Architecture ...
Alexandria Canal (Virginia) / 38.813778°N 77.038389°W / 38.813778; -77.038389. The Alexandria Canal was a canal in the United States that connected the city of Alexandria to Georgetown in the District of Columbia . In 1830, merchants from Alexandria (which at the time was within the jurisdiction of the federal District of Columbia ...
Alexandria Union Station. / 38.80639°N 77.06222°W / 38.80639; -77.06222. Alexandria Union Station is a historic railroad station in Alexandria, Virginia, south of Washington, D.C. To avoid confusion with nearby Washington Union Station, the station is often referred to as simply Alexandria. [3] Its Amtrak code is ALX.
Episcopal High School (also known as the High School, Episcopal and EHS), founded in 1839, is a boarding school located in Alexandria, Virginia. The Holy Hill 130-acre (53-hectare) campus houses 440 students from 31 states, the District of Columbia and 16 countries. [3] The school is 100-percent boarding and is the only all-boarding school of ...
Marshall House with the flag pole visible on the roof. The Marshall House was an inn that stood at 480 King Street (near the southeast corner of King Street and South Pitt Street) in Alexandria, Virginia. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, the house was the site of the killing of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth during the Union Army 's ...