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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) proposed linking their city to Georgetown to capitalize on the new Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal).
Location of Alexandria in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexandria, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
The Alexandria Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in Alexandria, Virginia.Encompassing all of the city's Old Town and some adjacent areas, this area contains one of the nation's best-preserved assemblages of the late-18th and early-19th century urban architecture.
Around 820,000 visitors came to Miraflores, the canal’s main visitor center, to see maritime trade happen in front of their eyes in 2024, according to González, with thousands more taking tours ...
Alexandria City Hall, including the mayor's office, is adjacent to Market Square. [11] In the 1830s Alexandria's citizens petitioned Virginia to take back the land it had donated to form the district, through a process known as retrocession. [12] The Virginia General Assembly voted in February 1846 to accept the return of Alexandria. On July 9 ...
A ship is guided through the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks near Panama City on April 24, 2023. (Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images)
The Panama Canal is an 82-km (51-mile) artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans through Panama, saving ships thousands of miles and weeks of travel around the stormy, icy ...
Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of downtown Washington, D.C. Alexandria is the third-largest principal city of the Washington metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.