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Accotink Heights: I-495 - MM 52.2 - NB
Few places in Northern Virginia have a history as closely tied to the building of the Capital Beltway and postwar suburban growth as Accotink Heights. This Fairfax County community lies beside Interstate 495, the ring road linking Washington’s Virginia and Maryland suburbs and carrying regional traffic around the capital. Mature woodland and the nearby Accotink Creek valley soften a corridor of residential areas, offices and major roads. Completed in 1964, the Beltway transformed access across metropolitan Washington and helped establish Fairfax County’s car-oriented development pattern. Accotink Heights remains part of a landscape shaped by both commuter infrastructure and stream valleys preserved between suburbs.
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