Alexandria, Mt. Vernon, and Accotink Turnpike

Alexandria, Mt. Vernon, and Accotink Turnpike (HM2LR2)

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N 38° 42.676', W 77° 8.622'

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The Virginia General Assembly incorporated the Alexandria, Mt. Vernon, and Accotink Turnpike Company in March 1856. The road passed here on its roughly nine-mile route from Alexandria to Accotink Creek. Its founders included local slaveholders as well as antislavery Quakers who had established a free-labor community for black and white families nearby. The turnpike facilitated travel to Mount Vernon and improved farmers' access to urban markets. During World War I the U.S. Army paved a portion of the road to accommodate heavy traffic to Camp A. A. Humphreys (later Fort Belvoir). A segment of the old turnpike became part of U.S. Route 1.
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HM NumberHM2LR2
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Year Placed2017
Placed ByDepartment of Historic Resources
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Date Added Friday, October 11th, 2019 at 2:03pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18H E 313611 N 5713082
Decimal Degrees-38.71126667, -77.14370000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 42.676', W 77° 8.622'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 42' 40.56" N, 77° 8' 37.32" W
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