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  • Collection: Highways and Metro

The bridge

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You can see the Wilson bridge if you go from Alexandia Old Town to National Habor by Water Taxi

Key Motel at the Shirley Highway

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The Key Motel was located at 6022 Duke Street at the Shirley Highway interchange with Route 236. Brothers Lewis S. and Jerome W. Keyes owned the motel, as well as a neon sign company that very likely produced the motel’s notable sign.

In the early…

Construction of the Silver Line

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The seemingly never-ending construction of the Silver Line in Tysons Corner is showing rapid progress.

Fire hydrant

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Construction at GMU/Vienna Metro Station

Stone's Motel

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In 1953, F.D. Patton obtained a building permit to erect a new motel on King Street just west of Shirley Highway, then known as Route 350. The following year, the newly opened Patton’s Town House Motel promoted its “modern” and “spacious”…

New Metro Line, Tyson's Corner

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New Metro Line, Tyson's Corner

Tyson Corner New Metro

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Tyson Corner New Metro

Beulah Rd., Vienna Bridge Crossing Construction

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Construction of a new bridge to cross over the (New Sliver Line) for the Metro