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Subject: Two Islands in Washington, DC
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Columbia Island is a part of DC that is "across the Potomac".  In
telecom terms, that means (at least when I took a walk through this
area in the late 1970s) that the pay phone in its park area just off
the George Washington Memorial Parkway is on a DC, not Virginia,
exchange.  This is where you end up if you cross the Arlington
Memorial Bridge (old U.S. 50) going from the Lincoln Memorial toward
the Arlington National Cemetery.  Even though the island is "across
the Potomac", it's still DC, and you have to cross the Boundary
Channel (I don't know if it's manmade) to enter Virginia as you
continue toward the cemetery.

Also in Washington DC: Theodore Roosevelt Island (between the Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge and the Key Bridge) has no phones that I know of, and
is reached by a foot bridge from Virginia but is, according to a map,
in DC.