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Tiber Creek or Tyber Creek, originally named Goose Creek, is a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was a free-flowing creek until 1815, when it was channeled to become part of the Washington City Canal. Presently, it flows under the city in tunnels, including under Constitution Avenue NW.
The District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) is an executive branch agency of the government of the District of Columbia in the United States. The department plans, builds, and maintains publicly owned recreational facilities in District of Columbia, including athletic fields, community centers, parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, spray pools and tennis courts.
The Goose Creek Historic District is a rural landscape in the Goose Creek valley of Loudoun County, Virginia. The district covers about 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) south of Hamilton and Purcellville and includes the village of Lincoln. The majority of the district is farmland, with areas of forest along Hogback Mountain.
Goose Creek Village is east of the center of Loudoun County, on the west side of Belmont Ridge Road. The Dulles Greenway (Virginia Route 267) runs through the southern part of the CDP, leading northwest 7 miles (11 km) to Leesburg, the county seat, and southeast 10 miles (16 km) to Washington Dulles International Airport.
Grant Circle was featured prominently in The Washington Post’s Weekend section on August 27, 2021 in the cover story, "A Driving Force: Traffic circles bring life to the city in unexpected ways." The article began on page 11 of that section, with a photograph of bicyclists in the circle appearing above a header that read, "Circles become city ...
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In 1958, Congress created the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission (ORRRC) to determine recreation needs, inventory recreation resources, and to recommend policies and programs to "...ensure that the needs of the present and future are adequately and efficiently met." ORRRC released its report in 1962, recommending the establishment ...
Oxon Run Park was created in 1971 when the National Capitol Planning Commission (NCPC) transferred 300 acres of federal parkland from the National Park Service to the District government, which was part of a larger 700 acre transfer that included Watts Branch, Pope Branch and most of the Oxon Run Parkway.