Highways in Harmony
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Acadia
Blue Ridge Parkway
Chickamauga and Chattanooga
Colonial Parkway
Generals Highway
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Great Smoky Mountains
Mount Rainier
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
Shenandoah's Skyline Drive
Southwest Circle Tour
Vicksburg
Yellowstone
Yosemite


George Washington Memorial Parkway
Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C.
NPS logo MOUNT VERNON MEMORIAL PARKWAY
TIMELINE OF DEVELOPMENTS

1761
George Washington inherits Mount Vernon
1790
Congress establishes District of Columbia
1799
Washington dies and is buried at Mount Vernon
1858
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association purchases estate. Roads in poor condition. Most tourists travel by steamboat.
1888
Mount Vernon Avenue Association formed to promote national road to Mount Vernon
1890
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts survey for national road to Mount Vernon
1892
Electric railway constructed between Alexandria and Mount Vernon; extended to Washington in 1896
1901
Senate Park Commission endorses national road to Mount Vernon
1904
First automobile tourists arrive at Mount Vernon.
1920s
American automobile ownership rises from 8,000 in 1900 to 8 million in 1920 and 22 million in 1930
1928
Congress authorizes memorial boulevard between Washington and Mount Vernon
1929
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway construction begins
1932
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway completed
1940
Parkway relocated for construction of National Airport
1970s
Mount Vernon multi-use trail constructed

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