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Walk and Bike the Alexandria Heritage Trail: Guide to Exploring a Virginia Town’s Hidden Past (Capital Travels) The first bicycling and walking guide to Alexandria, Virginia’s rich cultural and shipping heritage and important place in American history. Traces Alexandria’s 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 in 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 Alexandria’s 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, Virginia—one of our nation’s 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 Service’s 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.
Customer Review: Perfect Combination of Travel Guide and History!
Alexandria, Virginia is a very popular spot for tourists in the Washington, DC area and for year-round Virginia, DC and Maryland residents.

This lovely little book is perfect to stick in your bag or purse as you enjoy the Alexandria Heritage Trail. “Walk and Bike the Alexandria Heritage Trail: Guide to Exploring a Virginia Town’s Hidden Past” gives you all of the information you need to plan a trip to this beautiful area. The big plus for the book is all of the history it provides!

This is a great book!

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