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26-675: This article is about the surname. For the bicycle trail in Arlington, Virginia, see Custis Trail . For the bus station in Arlington, see Custis (Metroway station) . Custis is a surname which may refer to: People related to George Washington [ edit ] Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757), son of John Custis and first husband of Martha Washington Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779–1854), step-granddaughter of George Washington George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), son of John Parke Custis and adopted son of George Washington Hancock Custis ,

52-571: A 17 miles (27 km)-long shared use path that travels along the Parkway near the west side of the Potomac River to Alexandria and George Washington 's home at Mount Vernon . In 2018–19, VDOT, in cooperation with the Arlington County government, removed a lane of Lee Highway near the eastern end of the trail (between North Lynn Street and North Oak Street). The lane's removal enabled VDOT and

78-1183: A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1710–1712), brother of John Custis John Custis (1678–1749), member of the Virginia governor's Council and father of Daniel Parke Custis John Parke Custis (1754–1781), son of Daniel Parke Custis and stepson of George Washington Martha Washington (1731–1802), Martha Custis (as the widow of Daniel Custis) before she married George Washington Mary Anna Custis , daughter of George Washington Parke Custis and wife of General Robert E. Lee Mary Custis Vezey (1904-1994), poet and translator, related through her father, Henry Custis Vezey (1873–1939) Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (1788–1853), wife of George Washington Parke Custis Others [ edit ] Ace Custis (born 1974), American retired professional basketball player Bernie Custis (1928–2017), first black quarterback in North American football Donald L. Custis (1917–2021), United States Navy vice admiral [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

104-559: A partial interchange with I-66 that allows access to and from the direction of Washington and where the highway crosses the Custis Trail . SR 120 leaves Ballston as a four-lane divided highway that passes by The Glebe House and intersects US 29 ( Lee Highway ). The state highway has an oblique intersection with SR 309 (Old Dominion Drive) on an overpass of Yorktown Boulevard adjacent to Marymount University . At Williamsburg Boulevard, SR 120 veers northeast to parallel

130-567: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Custis Trail Download coordinates as: The Custis Trail is a hilly 4.5 miles (7.2 km)-long shared use path in Arlington County, Virginia . The asphalt -paved trail travels along Interstate 66 (I-66) between Rosslyn and the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Trail (W&OD Trail) at Bon Air Park. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) constructed

156-544: The 1940 renumbering , replacing a small part of SR 9 , which itself had replaced the original designation of SR 25 in the 1933 renumbering . The majority of SR 25 became SR 123 in 1940. Another SR 120 was designated in Franklin County in the 1933 renumbering , which consisted of two sections. One was the present-day SR 739 from its intersection with the present-day US 220 at Boones Mill westward for 5 miles (8.0 km). The other

182-700: The National Mall : 250 yards (229 m) west of the trailhead, the Custis Trail connects at North Lynn Street to the Francis Scott Key Bridge , thus creating connections to Georgetown , to the southern end of the Capital Crescent Trail and to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath. The trail then follows a hilly route along I-66 through Arlington County until reaching its western trailhead at

208-409: The surname Custis . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Custis&oldid=1015716903 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

234-610: The $ 2.5 million Custis Trail beside I-66 (named the Custis Memorial Parkway in Virginia east of the Capital Beltway ) from 1977 to 1982. VDOT originally did not plan to build the trail, but added it to the I-66 project to help the highway gain federal approval and funding after the federal government rejected the initial plans. East of Glebe Road ( Virginia State Route 120 ), I-66 and the Custis Trail were both built on and near

260-683: The Arlington– Fairfax county line. At the top of its descent to the Potomac River, the state highway has a partial cloverleaf interchange with Military Road, a residential street, and reduces to a two-lane undivided road. The highway has a sweeping curve to the north and passes below the George Washington Memorial Parkway immediately before its northern terminus at SR 123 (Chain Bridge Road), which connects SR 120 with

286-851: The Custis Trail (or I-66 Trail, as it was originally called) and the section of I-66 in Virginia east of the Beltway. The trail opened during the summer of 1982. In October, VDOT opened most of the new highway to cyclists and pedestrians for one day. VDOT opened the 10 miles (16.1 km) segment of I-66 between the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge and the Capital Beltway to motor vehicle traffic on December 22, 1982. The Custis Trail originally extended for 8.5 miles (13.7 km) to Lee Highway ( U.S. Route 29 ) in East Falls Church (see List of neighborhoods in Arlington County, Virginia ). However,

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312-479: The Custis Trail as the " Nellie Custis Trail" or the " Martha Custis Trail". However, no documents show that the trail ever bore the name of any specific individual. In 1980, there were discussions of naming I-66 for the Custis family , to which George Washington was related by marriage. At the time that I-66 was opening east of the Capital Beltway , Virginia highway officials were unofficially calling that section of

338-643: The Parkway. The road continues straight as SR 123 to the Chain Bridge , which crosses the Potomac River just below Little Falls to an intersection with Canal Road and the Clara Barton Parkway in Washington a short distance east of the District of Columbia – Maryland boundary. A road along the present path of SR 120 has existed at least since the 1750s. This road, linking Alexandria to Great Falls ,

364-661: The adjacent MedStar Capitals Iceplex , practice rink of the Washington Capitals . SR 120 veers north at Wilson Boulevard and passes by the Arlington Center of Northern Virginia Community College at Fairfax Drive, which heads east as SR 237 toward Clarendon and west as ramps to and from I-66 toward Falls Church. The state highway runs concurrently with SR 237 for two blocks north to Washington Boulevard, onto which SR 237 heads west toward Falls Church . Just north of Washington Boulevard, SR 120 has

390-519: The county to increase the width of that section of the trail from 10 feet (3.0 m) to 16 feet (4.9 m) and to widen the trail's buffer from 3 feet (0.9 m) feet to 8 feet (2.4 m). The Custis Trail's eastern trailhead is at the trail's lowest elevation (33 feet (10.1 m)). The trail connects at the trailhead to the Mount Vernon Trail, which provides access to three Potomac River crossings into downtown Washington, D.C. , and

416-599: The former right of way of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad's Rosslyn spur, which the highway department had purchased in 1962. In late 1972, the county received permission to build a 1.3 mile temporary, natural surface bike trail on the right-of-way east of Spout Run , which was called the Spout Run Bike Trail. The trail was to open by early 1973 and was in place by 1976. The more hilly Custis Trail replaced this relatively flat route, on which I-66 now travels. On August 8, 1977, VDOT officially began constructing

442-789: The highway's underpasses and overpasses. The trail has a 300-yard (274 m)-long spur that travels east to Fairfax Drive ( Virginia State Route 237 ) along the westbound entrance ramp to I-66 in Ballston. The spur connects to Ballston's streets and to the Bluemont Junction Trail , a 1.3-mile (2.1 km)-long rail trail that meets the W&;OD Trail and the Four Mile Run Trail at Bluemont Park  [ ceb ] in Bluemont, Arlington . Web pages and other sources sometimes identify

468-484: The road the "Martha Custis Parkway". In 1981, at least one columnist thought the road - and by extension the trail - was being specifically named for Nellie Custis. The section of I-66 east of the Beltway eventually received the name "Custis Memorial Parkway". Several Arlington County documents have therefore identified the trail as the "Custis Memorial Parkway Trail". Virginia State Route 120 SR 120 begins at an intersection with US 1 (Richmond Highway) at

494-463: The section of the Custis Trail that travels between Bon Air Park  [ ceb ] and East Falls Church was later informally re-branded to become a part of the W&OD Trail. On June 11, 1988, an extension of the trail and a bridge over the George Washington Memorial Parkway opened at the trail's eastern end. The extension and the bridge connected the trail to the Mount Vernon Trail ,

520-411: The south end of Crystal City, just north of the city of Alexandria––though Glebe Road actually continues three blocks east of US 1 where it ends at Potomac Avenue. The state highway heads west as a four-lane divided highway through the Arlington County sewage treatment facility. West of the facility, SR 120 parallels the Four Mile Run Trail and Four Mile Run , both to the south, and passes to

546-576: The south of the Arlington Ridge community. At the point the old alignment of SR 120, also named Glebe Road, crosses Four Mile Run into Alexandria, the state highway veers northwest away from the stream and meets I-395 (Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway) at a partial cloverleaf interchange north of Shirlington . North of the freeway, SR 120 passes between the historic Lomax African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and Army Navy Country Club. North of its oblique intersection with Walter Reed Drive,

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572-489: The state highway passes through the commercial center of Westmont, where the highway intersects SR 244 (Columbia Pike). North of Westmont, SR 120 has a partial cloverleaf interchange with US 50 (Arlington Boulevard) adjacent to the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More . SR 120 continues north onto Ballston, where the highway expands to six lanes at Quincy Street. The state highway passes by Ballston Quarter and

598-530: The trail's junction with the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail (W&OD Trail) at Bon Air Park near Four Mile Run . The western trailhead is 75 yards (69 m) east of North Patrick Henry Drive's overpass of I-66, the W&OD Trail and Four Mile Run. The trail reaches its highest elevation (299 feet (91.1 m)) near the North Harrison Street overpass of I-66 and the trail, west of Ballston . The trail descends from that high point to

624-486: The western trailhead, whose elevation is 233 feet (71.0 m). The Custis Trail crosses I-66 three times along its route: The trail has five at-grade street crossings, all of which in a section of the trail that travels next to the westbound traffic lanes of Lee Highway in and near Rosslyn. After the trail crosses I-66 on the Lee Highway overpass west of Rosslyn, the trail travels next to I-66 and crosses all streets on

650-505: Was first known as the "Road to the Falls." It took its present name from the nearby glebe lands that were used to support the clergy of the colonial Fairfax Parish of the Church of England ; those lands also gave their name to the historic Glebe House , which was built in the 19th century on the former glebe property and sits near what is now SR 120. SR 120 appeared in its current form in

676-433: Was the present-day SR 602 from its intersection with SR 40 near Ferrum northward for 5 miles (8.0 km). Glebe Road intersects through several areas that have seen an increase in pedestrian traffic since the 1970s. Arlington County and local citizens started discussions on improving pedestrian safety in 2003; the implementation of these started in 2013 and is scheduled to complete in 2014. The entire route

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