Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Waterfront

The Potomac River and railroads are the prime reasons that Alexandria grew to be the city it is, in the location it is in.  For a couple of centuries it was a rough and tumble shipping port. Most of the boat traffic today is pleasure craft, the trains pass through just west of the Metro station. 
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