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Credit: Henrik Hondius after Jodocus Hondius II after John Smith

1630 edition of John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay (North to the right)


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Credit: Jovianeye

Interior of St Andrew's Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia


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Credit: Jovianeye

Terminal at Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia, designed by architect Eero Saarinen


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Credit: Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker, USAF

P-51 Mustang flying above Langley Field in Hampton, which has been in operation as a military airfield since 1916.


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Credit: United States Navy

Superstructure being hoisted onto an aircraft carrier during its construction at the Newport News shipyard


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Credit: Jovianeye

Downtown Roanoke at night, as viewed from the Mill Mountain overlook


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Credit: NASA

Little Joe 1 rocket being prepared for a test flight at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore, as part of Project Mercury, 1959


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Credit: Louis Rémy Mignot and Thomas Prichard Rossiter, 1859

Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784


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Credit: James F. Gibson (1862)

Union Army battery of 10-inch Seacoast mortars at Yorktown for the Siege of Yorktown


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Credit: Joe Ravi, CC-BY-SA 3.0

George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia, designed after the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria


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Credit: Andrew J. Russell for Mathew Brady, 1863

Confederate dead along Sunken Road in Fredericksburg, Virginia after the Battle of Chancellorsville, on the exact position where months earlier the Battle of Fredericksburg was fought.


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Credit: NASA

Turning vanes inside one of the wind tunnels at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia


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Credit: YF12s

Monticello, the self-designed home of Thomas Jefferson, in Albemarle County, Virginia


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Credit: David Jones

Luray Caverns in Luray, Virginia, one of the many limestone caverns in the Shenandoah Valley


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Credit: Gregory F. Maxwell

The Meadow Pavilion at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Fairfax County, Virginia


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Credit: Joe Ravi, CC-BY-SA 3.0

Colvin Run Mill in Fairfax County, Virginia


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Credit: justin.critzer

The Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia


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Credit: ForestWander

Upper Cascades at the Cascades National Scenic Trail in Giles County, Virginia


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Credit: Martin Falbisoner

Mount Vernon, the plantation home of George Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia.


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An Antares rocket carrying Orb-D1 launches from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
An Antares rocket carrying Orb-D1 launches from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

An Antares rocket carrying Orb-D1 launches from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia on September 18, 2013


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The Lee statue on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia
The Lee statue on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia
Credit: Martin Falbisoner

The equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia


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Humorous sign at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
Humorous sign at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
Credit: NASA

A humorous sign seen during the launch of an Antares rocket at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island


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