Saturday, October 11
After Aspire Washington DC, we left Saturday morning on a road trip back home. It was a little vacation for our wedding anniversary which was in June.
Our first stop was unplanned. The Alexandria National Cemetery in Alexandria. You know I love cemeteries - especially old ones with rich history!
To see headstones of people who were born in the 1700's always amazes me.
A unique aspect of this cemetery is the dead buried here from the Civil War.
Beautiful and humbling.
This monument is for the four men that lost their lives who died trying to cross the Potomac in pursuit of John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated President Lincoln.
These are the graves of these four men.
Other veterans from other wars.
Many unknown graves. We see you and remember you.
From the cemetery, we went to Jones Point Park.
Two stops/places I wanted to mark off in my National Park sites passport book was the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail. Jones Point was a place to check those off.
This park also had a very interesting markers. Historical markers for the borders of three places: District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland.
It was pretty cool to me to see the Potomac River. Just felt like you were a little closer to history.
From the park, we were just across the river from the Gaylord where our Aspire event was held yesterday.
Wow! I love this inscription from 1791!
The first boundary cornerstone for Washington DC was placed right here in 1791 at Jones Point!
The boundary was later returned to Virginia in 1846. But what a neat part of history.
Thirty-seven of the forty markers remain today.
Official boundary marker of Maryland and Virginia.
Standing in two different states in one photo!
Our next planned stop was Oxon Cove Park - a national historic park on my list. Due to the government shutdown, it was closed. Unfortunately, this will be the story for our entire trip. Thank you for ruining our trip Congress.
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