Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in Northern Virginia, United States, on the Potomac River bordering Washington, D.C. Established in 1749, with a teenage George Washington helping to lay out the town, it was later included in the federal District of Columbia and went back to Virginia after residents voted for retrocession in 1846. Its Old Town holds the third historic district designated in the United States. The rocket engineer Wernher von Braun died in Alexandria on 16 June 1977 and is buried in its Ivy Hill Cemetery.

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