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The American Legion Memorial Bridge, also known as the American Legion Bridge and the Cabin John Bridge, is a bridge in Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.A.. It carries the Capital Beltway across the Potomac River between Montgomery County and Fairfax County, Virginia. This article is about the edifice. ... Location in the state of Maryland Formed 1776 Seat Rockville Area - Total - Water 1,313 km² (507 mi²) 30 km² (12 mi²) 2. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... The Capital Beltway (in green) The Capital Beltway (Interstate 495) is an expressway-class interstate highway which circles the Washington, DC area. ... Upper part of the Potomac River The Potomac River flows into Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States (USA). ... Fairfax County is a county of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. ...
The American Legion Memorial Bridge has five traffic lanes in each direction. However, the outermost lane in each direction is an exit-only lane. The outermost northbound lane is exit-only onto the Clara Barton Parkway, while the outermsot lane in the southern direction is exit-only onto the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Georgetown Pike (Virginia State Highway 193). The George Washington Memorial Parkway, known to local motorists simply as the G. W. Parkway, is a parkway maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. ... The George Washington Memorial Parkway, known to local motorists simply as the G.W. Parkway, is a parkway maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. ...
The American Legion Memorial Bridge is an important commuter route because of its proximity to edge cities and high tech centers in Maryland and Virginia. Edge city is an American term for a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community. ... High tech refers to high technology, technology that is at the cutting-edge and the most advanced currently available. ...
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Aerial view of the American Legion Memorial Bridge, from the Eyeball series (http://cryptome.org/dcbnt/dcbnt-eyeball.htm#Cabin%20John)
MemorialBridge is DC’s grandest entrance, and it is dressed up with American patriotism and the suggestion that you are entering the capital of a world power.
The M Street bridge of 1788 collapsed in a storm a few years after it was built, taking with it a carriage and four horses, all of which drowned; ever after believers in ghosts claimed they could hear frantic equine screams when the creek flooded.
Not to be confused with the nearby AmericanLegionBridge on the Beltway, the Cabin John was begun in 1853 as part of the DC water-supply system that remains in use to this day.
It is located mostly in Northern Virginia, although a short section near the Arlington MemorialBridge passes over Columbia Island, which is within the city limits of Washington, D.C. It is in two sections, joined by Washington Street (Virginia State Highway 400) in Alexandria, Virginia.
The cloverleaf interchange with the 14th Street Bridge, dating to 1932, is one of the oldest cloverleaf interchanges in the United States.
On November 28, 1989, the road in Maryland was renamed the Clara Barton Parkway.
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