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Exploring Beyond Washington, DC
Chambersburg Harrisburg West Chester Philadelphia
GETTYSBURG
Just minutes outside the bustling center of NATIONAL
Washington is a striking and varied area of Greencastle MILITARY PARK River Wilmington NEW
New
mountains, plains, and historic towns. To the Hagerstown Freedom Newark
Susquehanna
west are Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Taneytown Pennsville JERSEY
Buena
the setting for Shenandoah National Park. Cockeysville Vineland
To the south is the Piedmont, an area of ANTIETAM Aberdeen
NATIONAL
gently rolling hills that supports the vineyards BATTLEFIELD FREDERICK Towson Bridgeton
of Virginia’s burgeoning wine industry. To the BALTIMORE Smyrna
east, the Chesapeake Bay divides Maryland HARPERS Columbia Dundalk Chestertown Port Norris Woodbine
FERRY
almost in two, and to the south it travels the The Philadelphia Brigade NATIONAL Gaithersburg Dover Delaware
length of the Virginia coastline. To the north is Monument at Gettysburg Winchester HISTORICAL PARK STEVEN F.UDVAR- Bay Villas
the big port city of Baltimore, with its pleasant HAZY CENTER Centreville Choptank River D EL A W ARE
waterfront promenade, shops, museums, MIDDLEBURG GREAT FALLS PARK ANNAPOLIS Milford Cape May Cape May
and stunning National Aquarium. Front Washington DC Denton Cape Henlopen
Mount Shenandoah River Royal ALEXANDRIA OLD TOWN Milton Lewes
Jackson Warrenton Manassas GEORGE WASHINGTON’S Federalsburg
MOUNT VERNON ESTATE
Luray Washington Dale GUNSTON HALL Seaford Georgetown
Broadway City
SKYLINE Cambridge Nanticoke River Selbyville
DRIVE Culpeper MAR YLAND
Harrisonburg Elkton Madison Stafford
Salisbury Berlin Ocean City
Falmouth
Grottoes Orange FREDERICKSBURG CHINCOTEAGUE
e Colonial Lexington Princess Anne Snow Hill AND ASSATEAGUE
Park
Beach
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Staunton d Gordonsville Lake Rappahonnock C H E S A P E A K E B A Pocomoke City
Anna
i Louisa Bowling
R Green Crisfield
CHARLOTTESVILLE Warsaw
Tappahannock River
e Palmyra Heathsville
u Covesville V I R G I N I A Tangier
l Lovingston Mattapo n i River King and Queen Y Island
B Ashland
Ja mes River Goochland King Kilmarnock
A re-created fort in Jamestown William Court House
Amherst
Buckingham New Saluda Exmore
RICHMOND Kent
Cumberland
Sights at a Glance Madison Heights Charles York River
Lynchburg City Toano
1 Old Town Alexandria pp160–61 Farmville Chester WILLIAMSBURG
2 George Washington’s Mount Vernon Rustburg Petersburg YORKTOWN & Cape Charles
Estate pp162–3 Prince Surry JAMESTOWN
3 Gunston Hall George James River
4 Annapolis Waverly Hampton
5 Baltimore Newport News
6 Gettysburg National Military Park Sussex Portsmouth
7 Frederick Norfolk
8 Antietam National Battlefield
9 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
0 Great Falls Park
q Middleburg
w Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
e Skyline Drive
r Charlottesville
t Fredericksburg
y Richmond
u Chesapeake Bay
i Chincoteague and Assateague
o Yorktown and Jamestown
p Colonial Williamsburg pp170–71 The dramatic Bearfence Mountain, part of Shenandoah National Park
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