Langley, Virginia

Coordinates: 38°56′47″N 77°9′32″W / 38.94639°N 77.15889°W / 38.94639; -77.15889
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Langley, Virginia
UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
22101–22102
GNIS feature ID1495816[1]
September 11 attack on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense
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Langley is an

Crown Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1749 to 1750. Lee's land was named Langley in honor of Langley Hall, which formed part of the Lee home estate in Shropshire, England.[2] In 1839 Benjamin Mackall purchased 700 acres (283 ha) of land from the Lee family,[3]
while keeping the name.[citation needed]

The community was essentially absorbed into McLean many years ago,[when?] although there is still a Langley High School.[4] In addition to its roles as a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., and as home to the CIA's headquarters, the area is the site of the Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center and formerly the Claude Moore Colonial Farm of the National Park Service, now permanently closed.

In popular culture

In the animated series American Dad!, the city of Langley Falls, Virginia, in which the show takes place, is loosely based on Langley, being depicted as a somewhat larger city as well as the headquarters of the CIA, where main character Stan Smith works as an agent.

"Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Party in the CIA" starts with the line "I moved out to Langley recently".

In the expansion to the CD Projekt game Cyberpunk 2077, Phantom Liberty, there is a location of the Military Medical Center located in Langley.

A member of the group of three conspiracy theorist hackers in the hit 90’s television series,

20th Century Fox
, but with low ratings, the show only lasted for one season.

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Langley, Virginia
  2. ^ The CIA Campus: The Story of Original Headquarters Building
  3. ^ Compare: . Retrieved June 4, 2023. [...] Benjamin Mackall, who acquired the Langley estate from the Lee family in 1836.
  4. ^ "Langley HS Map" (PDF). Fairfax County Public Schools. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2008.

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