Town of Forest Heights

Places of Interest

MGM National Harbor

Casino

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MGM National Harbor is a casino hotel in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. It opened on December 8, 2016, and cost $1.4 billion. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International.

Bellevue/William O. Lockridge Library

Library

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Bellevue/William O. Lockridge Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System. It was originally opened to the public in 1959.

Goose Island

Island

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Goose Island is a vanishing island located in the Potomac River in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is a rarely above-water mudflat located at the mouth of Oxon Creek, roughly between Oronoco Bay in Alexandria and Marbury Point, now part of the Blue Plains water treatment plant.

Places in the Area

National Harbor

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National Harbor is in Prince George's County, Maryland. Home to Marriott's Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor is a common destination for people traveling to the Washington DC area for conventions and business.

Alexandria

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Alexandria is a city in Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., in the United States of America.

Anacostia

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Anacostia is the popular name for the huge swathe of the capital consisting of the many neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Its heart, in the small, historic neighborhood of Anacostia, is immediately across the Frederick Douglass Bridge from the Nationals Ballpark.

Town of Forest Heights

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