Sterling, Virginia is a Washington, D.C.suburb, northwest of Herndon and Reston, Virginia, close to Dulles International Airport. Image File history File links Adapted from Wikipedias VA county maps by Seth Ilys. ... Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... Herndon is the third-largest town in Virginia, located in Fairfax County, Virginia. ... Reston Town Center Reston is an unincorporated planned community and census-designated place located in western Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. ... Aerial photo Washington Dulles International Airport (IATA airport code IAD, ICAO airport code KIAD) serves the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. ...
The suburb originally started as an agricultural area until about the mid-1960s, when the construction of Dulles International Airport was completed. A farmer in Germany working the land in the traditional way, with a horse and plough Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
Communities
Potomac Falls is the portion of Sterling within the zip code of 20165. Potomac Falls is made up of the communities of Cascades, Countryside, and Lowes Island.
Sterling Park is the portion of Sterling within the zip code of 20164. Sterling Park, completed in the 1960s was the initial, and until the past decade, the only major development in eastern Loudoun County. Sterling Park is the home of Park View High School, which produced NFL Players Alan Pinkett and Jeff Lageman as well as the former Duke basketball star Billy King.
The Potomac River brings together a variety of cultures throughout the watershed from the coal miners of upstream West Virginia to the urban residents of the nation's capital and, along the lower Potomac, the watermen of Virginia's Northern Neck.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers.
Claims by Maryland to West Virginia land north of the South Branch (all of Mineral and Grant Counties and parts of Hampshire, Hardy, Tucker and Pendleton Counties) and by West Virginia to the Potomac's high water mark were rejected by the Supreme Court in two separate decisions in 1910.
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