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Walk and Bike the Alexandria Heritage Trail: Guide to Exploring a Virginia Town's Hidden Past
Walk and Bike the Alexandria Heritage Trail Guide to Exploring a Virginia Town's Hidden Past Author:Pamela J. Cressey The first bicycling and walking guide to Alexandria, Virginias rich cultural and shipping heritage and important place in American history. Traces Alexandrias new 23-mile Urban Heritage Trail. Alexandria Heritage Trail contributes to the concept of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, a developing network of trails i... more »n a 425-mile corridor between the mouth of the Potomac River and the Allegheny Highlands
Alexandria Virginia is on a par with Williamsburg for its Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil War history and African-American, British, Quaker, and shipping cultural heritage
Book has support of Alexandrias Office of Archeology that developed the Heritage Trail, National Park Service, and Alexandria tourist outlets
Friends of Alexandria has ties to local tourism offices, hotel associations, and gift shops
Perfect travel guide for bicyclists, walkers, and American history buffs Walk and Bike the Alexandria Heritage Trail is the first travel guide to the new 23-mile Urban Heritage Trail in Alexandria, Virginiaone of our nations oldest towns, rich in early American history. For bikers or hikers, the guide covers 100 historical sites and 40 museums and historical parks along the trail. It covers 8,000 years of archaeology and history. Based on 30 years of original fact finding, including archaeological digs and scholarly research, the Alexandria trail is an exciting urban link in the National Park Services Potomac Heritage Trail system. Take a day or a weekend, to trace early American history and the people who lived it, discover the clues to the past still held in the contemporary landscape of this sparkling port city near Washington, D.C.« less