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    "Custis Trail" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Custis...
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    traveling southeast on the Custis Trail and crossing the George Washington Memorial Parkway, one can reach the paved Mount Vernon Trail, which travels downstream...
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    The trail is part of a route to Georgetown and downtown Washington, D.C. It serves as an alternative to a portion of the more hilly Custis Trail. In 1911...
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    bridge. The "Custis Memorial Parkway" name commemorates the Custis family, several of whose members (including Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, George...
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    Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington. Currently...
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    Washington Parke Custis, grandson of First Lady Martha Washington, acquired the land in 1802. The estate was later passed down to Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife...
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    year, connected it to the Custis Trail. Later that same year a new trail segment was built in Fort Hunt Park where the trail had been on road. That represented...
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    Custis Trail. The shared-use path is a part of the Potomac Heritage Trail, the East Coast Greenway and U.S. Bicycle Route 1. The Mount Vernon Trail connects...
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    the W&OD Trail intersects the Custis Trail, a 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long paved shared use path that travels along Interstate 66 (I-66) (the Custis Memorial...
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    inherited from George Custis (in accordance with the Custis will). Before this, Lee had petitioned the courts to keep people enslaved by Custis longer than the...
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    and from the direction of Washington and where the highway crosses the Custis Trail. SR 120 leaves Ballston as a four-lane divided highway that passes by...
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    the adjacent Custis Trail replaced the line between Thrifton and Washington Boulevard in Ballston. Arlington County's Bluemont Junction Trail replaced the...
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  • documented Tuskegee Airmen Pilots. Custis was Hartford, Connecticut's first African American police officer. Custis was the first African American combat...
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    through Westover. Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park and Custis Trail also pass through Southern Westover, connecting Westover to Falls Church...
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    Junction Trail, along the path of the former Bluemont Branch of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad. It is also the western end of the Custis Trail. The...
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    Mile Run) Custis Trail (along I-66), Arlington It is possible to bicycle or hike a triangle route that passes along all three of these trails. List of...
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    Abingdon (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    (also known as the Alexander-Custis Plantation) was an 18th- and 19th-century plantation owned by the prominent Alexander, Custis, Stuart, and Hunter families...
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    Their trips ended at the downtown Washington station. I-66 and the Custis Trail now travel from Lee Highway (U.S. Route 29) in East Falls Church to Ballston...
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    Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (category National Historic Trails of the United States)
    surrender on October 19, 1781. The route is a designated National Historic Trail with interpretive literature, signs, and exhibits that describe the key...
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    area which was given to Martha Washington's granddaughter, Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis. The Gum Springs portion was established by slaves and blacks which...
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    street heading westbound in East Falls Church, parallel to Interstate 66 (Custis Memorial Parkway). It provides an ramp to I-66 west as part of the highway's...
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    Cemetery on land that he inherited from John Parke Custis, his natural father, following his death. Custis went to live at Mount Vernon where George Washington...
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    Mount Washington (category Mountains on the Appalachian Trail)
    is visited by hikers from various approaches, including the Appalachian Trail, which traverses the summit. Other common activities include glider flying...
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  • (1917–2011) – U.S. Army Air Forces. Last pilot of Doolittle Raid. Lemuel R. Custis (1915–2005) – U.S. Army Air Forces – Tuskegee Airmen. Last surviving graduating...
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    300-acre (1.2 km2) Virginia estate. The two appeared together in Broken Trail and Get Low, and Duvall produced and appeared in Cooper's film Crazy Heart...
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  • local talent, and announced the signing of local Frederick star, Steve Custis. Custis was a standout player at Frederick High School before playing collegiately...
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  • 1980). "Seven Bridges Span Four Mile Run Flood-Control Project and Bicycle Trail". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved June 16, 2020. "Demolition...
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  • Longarm books were a series of western novels featuring the character of Custis Long, who is nicknamed Longarm, a U.S. Deputy Marshal based in Denver, Colorado...
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    Washington (wife) John Parke Custis (stepson) George Washington Parke Custis (step-grandson, adopted son) Eleanor Parke Custis (step-granddaughter, adopted...
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    Perce Indian tribes. Whitman's settlement would in 1843 help the Oregon Trail, the overland emigration route to the west, get established for thousands...
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