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Southern Avenue (Washington, D.C.)

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2016 09 11 11 26 33 View west at the west end of Maryland State Route 218 (Suitland Road) at Southern Avenue, crossing from Suitland, Prince Georges County, Maryland into Washington, D.C.
2016 09 11 11 26 33 View west at the west end of Maryland State Route 218 (Suitland Road) at Southern Avenue, crossing from Suitland, Prince Georges County, Maryland into Washington, D.C.

Southern Avenue is one of three boundary streets between Washington, D.C., and the state of Maryland. Following a southwest-to-northeast line, Southern Avenue begins at the intersection of South Capitol Street in Southeast, Washington, D.C., and Indian Head Highway on the Maryland side. It runs for approximately 7 miles (11 km) to its other end at Eastern Avenue in Northeast, Washington, D.C., with an uncompleted gap between Naylor Road SE and Branch Avenue SE. Southern Avenue was built in pieces. For example, the portion between Benning Road SE and 46th Street SE was not started until 1928. One of the first residential developments on Southern Avenue was Fairfield, a cluster of luxury homes at the intersection of Highview Terrace SE and 34th Street SE in the Summit Park neighborhood.The Southern Avenue bridge over Suitland Parkway was the first orthotropic deck girder bridge built in Washington, D.C.

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2016 09 11 11 26 33 View west at the west end of Maryland State Route 218 (Suitland Road) at Southern Avenue, crossing from Suitland, Prince Georges County, Maryland into Washington, D.C.
2016 09 11 11 26 33 View west at the west end of Maryland State Route 218 (Suitland Road) at Southern Avenue, crossing from Suitland, Prince Georges County, Maryland into Washington, D.C.
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Washington National Records Center
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The Washington National Records Center (WNRC) in Suitland, Maryland, stores and references records of U.S. Federal agencies located in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.Physical records are transferred to WNRC when they are no longer needed by the respective agencies but have not met their scheduled retention period, including the records of the Federal Courts in DC and the Armed Forces. Those records remain at the WNRC until acceptance as permanent records by the National Archives, or else they are destroyed and recycled. The records are tracked individually in a database from the time they arrive at the WNRC. While court records are freely available to the public, the majority of records are controlled by their respective originating agency, and all records are subject to the access restrictions specific to that agency and national security classification. The WNRC encompasses approximately 789,000 square feet (73,300 m2) of space and has a capacity to hold over 3.9 million cubic feet (110,000 m3) of Federal records. Security systems, and fire suppression systems protect the records in the Center. Upon arrival, visitors to the Center must go through security, sign in, and present photo identification at the guard's station in the entrance lobby. In 2007, the WNRC opened a new Electronic Records Vault. The 976 square-foot vault allows Federal Records Centers to store and service temporary electronic records for Federal agencies. This was after a major criminal fire on Tuesday, 29 February 2000, which destroyed 700,000 pages, as reported by archives officials.

Skyland (Washington, D.C.)
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