The 18-mile Mount Vernon Trail is one of the Washington, D.C. Metro area's most popular trails. Just across the Potomac River from D.C. in Virginia, the trail links Theodore Roosevelt Island Park with George Washington's Estate in Mount Vernon.
Gilead, area of ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River, corresponding to modern northwestern Jordan. The region is bounded in the north by the YarmÅ«k River and in the southwest by what were known in ancient times as the âplains of Moabâ; to the east there is no definite boundary.
However, according to the Famous Wizard cards Hogsmeade village was founded by a wizard named Hengist of Woodcroft, and the earliest British village named Woodcroft seems to date back only to the 12th C, which suggests that Hogsmeade village is two hundred years younger than the castle.