Military Road (Washington, D.C.)
Military Road is a major east–west collector road and limited-access road in the Northwest (Washington, D.C.), northwestern quadrant of Washington D.C., United States. History Military Road was constructed by the Union Army during the American Civil War, intended to serve as a route connecting Fortification, military forts in Northwest (Washington, D.C.), Northwest D.C. It also served as a second crossing over Rock Creek (Potomac River tributary), Rock Creek, with a bridge (now Joyce Road Bridge) constructed in 1929, as a bypass of the Milkhouse Road Ford (crossing), ford that initially served as the only crossing in the area. Around 1960, a four-lane limited-access road, limited-access parkway bypass with a new bridge crossing Rock Creek was built, realigning Military Road from the original two-lane road across the creek. Route Military Road begins at the Maryland border in Friendship Heights as a two-lane collector road and heads east through the neighborhood of Chevy Cha ...
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Western Avenue (Washington, D
Western Avenue may refer to: United Kingdom *Western Avenue (London) United States *Western Avenue (Albany, New York) *Western Avenue (Chicago) *Western Avenue (Los Angeles) *Western Avenue (Washington, D.C.) * Western Avenue (Metra Milwaukee District/North Line) on the Milwaukee District/North Line, Milwaukee District/West Line, and North Central Service *Western Avenue (Metra BNSF Railway Line) Western Avenue (also known as Western Avenue & 18th Place) is a station on Metra's BNSF Line located in Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station consists of one side platform and one island platform for outbound and inbound trains. ...

Connecticut Avenue
Connecticut Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., and suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. It is one of the diagonal avenues radiating from the White House, and the segment south of Florida Avenue was one of the original streets in Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's plan for Washington. A five-mile segment north of Rock Creek was built in the 1890s by a real-estate developer. History Connecticut Avenue was first extended north from Rock Creek around 1890 as part of an audacious plan to create a streetcar suburb—today's Chevy Chase, Maryland—several miles distant from built-up Washington, D.C. The area northwest of today's Calvert Street NW was largely farmland when Francis Newlands, a sitting Congressman from Nevada, quietly acquired more than 1,700 acres in Northwest D.C. and Maryland along a five-mile stretch from today's Woodley Park neighborhood in D.C. to Jones Bridge Road in Maryland's Montgomery County. Meanwhile, he acqui ...
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Nevada Avenue (Washington, D
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, the 32nd-most populous, and the 9th-least densely populated of the U.S. states. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area, including three of the state's four largest incorporated cities. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Las Vegas is the largest city in the state. Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State" because it achieved statehood during the Civil War (the words "Battle Born" also appear on its state flag); as the "Sagebrush State", for the native plant of the same name; and as the " Sage-hen State". The name means "snowy" in Spanish, refe ...
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