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River Creek is a planned community in Loudoun County, Virginia, located 40 miles (64 km) west of Washington, D.C., and 4 miles (6 km) east of Leesburg at the confluence of the Potomac River and Goose Creek. It was the first gated country club community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Potomac station could refer to: Potomac Station, Virginia, an inhabited place; Potomac station (Metroway), a bus rapid transit station in Alexandria, Virginia;
Lansdowne is a census-designated place and planned community located near Leesburg, Virginia in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 United States Census was 11,253. [2] It is north of State Route 7 and south of the Potomac River. Before the Revolutionary War, the Lee family established Coton Manor here.
WTSD (1190 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Leesburg, Virginia, and serving the Washington metropolitan area with a sports radio format. [4] Owned by Potomac Radio Group, Inc., the station has been operated by iHeartMedia since January 2023, as part of that broadcast chain's cluster of stations. [5]
In 1969 the Leesburg Passenger Station suffered its 3rd fire and was destroyed. [ 76 ] By 1969, the C&O had removed all of its tracks and ties (the ties were sold in bundles of 25 for $75), [ 77 ] except for some tracks that were crossing paved roads; and the County started covering those in late 1968. [ 78 ]
Potomac Yard as a rail yard in the 1980s Potomac Yard as a mixed-use neighborhood in 2021. Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the ...
What is today the Fredericksburg Line was originally part of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad (or RF&P), a connector railroad between the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads in Washington, D.C., and the Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads in Richmond.
Leesburg is 33 miles (53 km) west-northwest of Washington, D.C., along the base of Catoctin Mountain and close to the Potomac River. [6] The town is the northwestern terminus of the Dulles Greenway , a private toll road that connects to the Dulles Toll Road at Dulles International Airport .