The skyscrapers of Rosslyn as seen behind The Pentagon.

Nighttime view of Rosslyn, Virginia skyline from Georgetown

West tower of the River Place apartment complex

Rosslyn is an unincorporated area located in the northeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, north of Arlington National Cemetery and directly across the Potomac River from Georgetown in Washington, D.C. Characterized as one of several "urban villages" by the County, the numerous skyscrapers in the dense business section of Rosslyn make its appearance in some ways more urban than much of Washington proper. Rosslyn encompasses the Arlington neighborhoods of North Rosslyn and Radnor/Ft. Myer Heights. View of the southwest side of the Pentagon; image taken by User:Postdlf and submitted under the GFDL license. ... View of the southwest side of the Pentagon; image taken by User:Postdlf and submitted under the GFDL license. ... This article is about the United States military building. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 500 pixelsFull resolution (1440 × 900 pixel, file size: 859 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Nighttime view of Rosslyn, Virgina skyline from Georgetown. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 500 pixelsFull resolution (1440 × 900 pixel, file size: 859 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Nighttime view of Rosslyn, Virgina skyline from Georgetown. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1408 × 1056 pixel, file size: 341 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photograph of the North (partial) and West Tower of the River Place Apartment complex in Rosslyn, Virginia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1408 × 1056 pixel, file size: 341 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photograph of the North (partial) and West Tower of the River Place Apartment complex in Rosslyn, Virginia. ... Arlington County is an urban county of about 203,000 residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. [1] Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroceded to Virginia in a July... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States (USA). ... The familiar golden dome of Washingtons once venerable Riggs Bank, now amalgamated into PNC Bank, at the northeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW. Georgetown in red Georgetown is a neighborhood located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River waterfront. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ...

Transportation

The Washington Metro Blue and Orange lines service the Rosslyn Metro station. The Washington Metro, or simply Metro, is the rapid transit system of Washington, D.C., and neighboring suburban communities in Maryland and Virginia, both inside and outside the Capital Beltway. ... The Blue Line of the Washington Metro consists of 27 subway stations from Franconia_Springfield to Largo Town Center. ... The Orange Line of the Washington Metro consists of 26 subway stations from Vienna/Fairfax-GMU to New Carrollton. ... Rosslyn is a Washington Metro station in the business district of Rosslyn, in Arlington County, Virginia. ...

Rosslyn is a minor transportation hub, and is partially made by the intersection of the Key Bridge (U.S. Route 29), State Route 110, the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and Interstate 66. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, or, more commonly, the Key Bridge, is a reinforced concrete arch bridge conveying U.S. Highway 29 traffic across the Potomac River between the Rosslyn section of Arlington County, Virginia, and the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. It was built by the U.S... United States Highway 29 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 1,036 miles (1,667 km) from the western suburbs of Baltimore to Pensacola, Florida. ... State Route 110 is a primary state highway in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. ... 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. ... Interstate 66 (abbreviated I-66) is an interstate highway in the eastern United States. ...

History

During the colonial period, Rosslyn's shoreline contained a landing for Awbrey's ferry, which transported travelers to and from Georgetown. A community that gradually developed behind the shore became known as Ross Lynn, the name of a local farm. The ferryboat Dongan Hills, filled with commuters, about to dock at a New York City pier, circa 1945. ...

During the 1830s and 1840s, the Aqueduct Bridge was constructed between Georgetown and Rosslyn. When completed in 1843, this bridge carried the Alexandria Canal, which transported canal boats from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown to the downstream port of Alexandria, Virginia. // Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwins expedition on the HMS Beagle. ... // First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.. First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February 6, 1840 at Waitangi, Northland New Zealand. ... Aqueduct Bridge with roadway The Aqueduct Bridge was a bridge between Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and Rosslyn, Virginia, in Arlington County. ... Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Alexandria Canal Center with restored Tidal Basin and Tidal Lock The Alexandria Canal was a canal in the United States that connected the city of Alexandria to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. ... Canal at Swains Lock The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, also known as the C&O Canal, operated from 1850 until 1924 parallel to the Potomac River in Maryland from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington, DC. The total length of the canal is about 184. ... Location in Virginia Coordinates: , Country State Founded 1718 Government  - Mayor William D. Euille Area  - City  15. ...

Following the American Civil War in the 1860s, a lawless community developed at the base of the bridge. Known primarily for its gambling halls, pawnshops, saloons, brothels and unsavory inhabitants, the community failed to attract much development other than a large whiskey distillery. Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... // The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA was built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... For other uses, see Whisky (disambiguation). ... Laboratory distillation set-up: 1: Heat source 2: Still pot 3: Still head 4: Thermometer/Boiling point temperature 5: Condenser 6: Cooling water in 7: Cooling water out 8: Distillate/receiving flask 9: Vacuum/gas inlet 10: Still receiver 11: Heat control 12: Stirrer speed control 13: Stirrer/heat plate...

Eventually, spurred by the real estate potential that the arrival of electric trolleys in the 1890s, developers and reformers ousted Rosslyn's more unsavory elements in the early 1900s. Nevertheless, Rosslyn remained primarily known for its pawn shops and used car dealerships until a development boom in the 1960s began to "revitalize" the area with the construction of a large number of high-rise office buildings and hotels in its center and a smaller number of residential buildings on its outskirts. map from 1901 showing trolley lines in Arlington The earliest electric railway, or streetcar line, in Northern Virginia opened in 1892. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... // Public flight demonstration of an airplane by Alberto Santos-Dumont in Paris, November 12, 1906. ...

During the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, "Deep Throat" (W. Mark Felt) passed information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in the middle of the night in an underground parking garage at 1401 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn. “Watergate” redirects here. ... W. Mark Felt, on the set of CBSs Face the Nation in 1976. ... William Mark Felt, Sr. ... ... Bob Woodward signs his book State of Denial after a talk in March 2007. ...

Rosslyn is the original corporate home of the USA Today newspaper, owned by the Gannett Company. Both the company and the newspaper occupied two high-rise silver-colored towers, (seen in the first picture, above), built in the early 1980s, which adjoin each other at 1100 Wilson Boulevard. Gannett did not own these buildings, and moved from their original home to a new campus in Fairfax County, Virginia sometime after the year 2000. USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ... Gannett Company, Inc. ... Fairfax is the name of some places in the United States of America: Fairfax, California Fairfax, Iowa Fairfax, Minnesota Fairfax, Missouri Fairfax, Ohio Fairfax, Oklahoma Fairfax, South Carolina Fairfax, South Dakota Fairfax, Vermont Fairfax, Virginia Fairfax, West Virginia Fairfax County, Virginia Fairfax District, Los Angeles, California Fairfax Station, Virginia Fairfax... A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

In 2003, the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority attempted to attract the relocating Montréal Expos to Northern Virginia by proposing three Arlington County locations for a new baseball stadium. Two sites were in the urban village of Pentagon City; the third was a site in the southeastern corner of Rosslyn that was already occupied by four cooperative buildings, formerly the historic Arlington Towers, (see external link below), which were the first high-rise towers in Arlington County, now known as River Place. Though polls appeared to show that a majority of Arlington residents supported locating the stadium in the county, the issue proved highly divisive, and Virginia's bid failed completely when governor Mark Warner ruled out state financing for stadium construction. The Expos eventually moved to D.C. after the 2004 season to become the Washington Nationals, with a stadium planned to be built in southeast Washington. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1969 to 2004. ... Map of Northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. ... Washington Tower, a signature building of the Pentagon City neighborhood. ... Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Virginia and a member of the Democratic Party. ... Major league affiliations National League (1969–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 42 Name Washington Nationals (2005–present) Montreal Expos (1969-2004) Other nicknames Nats, Nacionales (Spanish) Ballpark RFK Stadium (2005–present) Hiram Bithorn Stadium[3] (San Juan) (2003-2004) Olympic Stadium (Montreal) (1977-2004) Jarry Park...

Popular culture

In the first season finale of the popular television show The West Wing, the fictional President Bartlet is nearly assassinated while leaving a town hall meeting at the Newseum. The West Wing is a popular and widely acclaimed American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin and produced and co-written by John Wells. ... This article or section on a Television-related subject may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... Screenshot of Newseums Todays Front Pages The world’s first interactive museum of news — the Newseum — opened in Arlington, Virginia, on April 18, 1997. ...

Rosslyn Today

Rosslyn is home to Arlington Temple United Methodist Church, possibly the world's only church located on top of a gasoline station. Rosslyn has become a more and more popular place to live for DC and VA workers alike because of its urban feel and slightly lower rents. Rosslyn is home to many different kinds of apartment complexes, like the older River Place and the Normandy, to much more "luxury" units. Rosslyn's location also makes it prime real estate for Georgetown University students looking to live off campus. The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodist denomination. ... Georgetown University is an elite private research university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States. ...

While Rosslyn has been traditionally a "9-5" community, local bars and restaurants like Cafe Asia, Piola, and The Continental, have become popular hangouts for happy hours and weekends.

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, is located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington Blvd (U.S. Route 50), and Fort Myer. On the grounds of the memorial, and offering superb views of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and U.S. Capitol, is the Netherlands Carillon. The Marine Corps War Memorial is a military memorial statue located near the Arlington National Cemetery in Rosslyn, Virginia, United States. ... This article or section should be merged with Marine Corps War Memorial The USMC War Memorial (often called the Iwo Jima memorial), a statue depicting the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, is on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Arlington Boulevard is a major arterial road in Arlington County, Fairfax County, and the independent City of Fairfax in Northern Virginia in metropolitan Washington, DC, United States. ... Orville Wright flying at Fort Myer, September 17, 1908. ... The Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential memorial built to honor 16th President Abraham Lincoln. ... The Washington Monument at dusk For other Washington Monuments, see Washington Monuments (world). ... United States Capitol The United States Capitol is the building which serves as home for the legislative branch of the United States government. ... The Netherlands Carillon at Arlington National Cemetery was a gift from the people of the Netherlands to the people of the United States of America in 1954. ...

Freedom Park, opened in 1996, offers seating and excellent views of Washington DC. Replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue at Freedom Park. ...

Rosslyn offers access to the many of running trails that cut through Northern Virginia and Washington DC. By heading north on North Lynn street, one can cross the Francis Scott Key Bridge and pick up the C&O Canal, or pick up the Mount Vernon trail and head down the Potomac River along the Virginia border. By heading south on North Lynn Street, one can go onto the grounds of the UMSC War Memorial and pick up the running trails around Arlington National Cemetery, bringing one either east over the Memorial Bridge into Washington DC, or south through Lady Bird Johnson Park. Francis Scott Key Bridge can stand for: Francis Scott Key Bridge, a bridge crossing the outer harbor of Baltimore, Maryland. ... Civilian Conservation Corps workers restoring the canal in 1939 The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, also known as the C&O Canal, operated from 1850 until 1924 parallel to the Potomac River in Maryland from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington, DC. The total length of the canal is about 182 miles (300... The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States (USA). ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

External links

• Arlington's Urban Villages - Rosslyn
• Arlington Towers
• Rosslyn: Discover a New Horizon
• Open Directory Project: Rosslyn
• Rosslyn's early history
• Rosslyn's development in the 1960s
• Rosslyn walking map and guide
• Maps and aerial photos
  • Hybrid satellite image/street map from WikiMapia

Coordinates: 38°53′48″N, 77°04′21″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...