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Alexandria
is located on the west
bank of the Potomac
River, six miles below
Washington, D.C. and
nine miles north of
Mount Vernon.
Much of present-day
Alexandria was included
in a 6,000-acre land
grant from Sir William
Berkeley, Governor of
Virginia, which was
awarded to Robert Howsing,
an English ship captain,
on October 21, 1669.
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