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Jennings Randolph Lake is a reservoir of 952 acres (3.85 km 2) located on the North Branch Potomac River in Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia. It is approximately 8 miles (13 km) upstream of Bloomington, Maryland , and approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Elk Garden, West Virginia .
Jennings Randolph Lake, in Mineral County, West Virginia and Garrett County, Maryland, is named in his honor. The Jennings Randolph Bridge that carries U.S. Route 30 across the Ohio River between Chester, West Virginia, and East Liverpool, Ohio, also is named for him. In West Virginia, Interstate 79 is known as the Jennings Randolph Expressway.
Jennings Randolph Lake, named for Senator Jennings Randolph. The lake was originally named Bloomington Lake. The lake was constructed in 1981 on top of the town of Shaw, West Virginia by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The lake is located near Elk Garden. The lake offers extensive recreational opportunity with its 952 acres (3.85 km ...
From the Fairfax Stone, the North Branch Potomac River flows 27 miles (43 km) to the man-made Jennings Randolph Lake, an impoundment designed for flood control and emergency water supply. Below the dam, the North Branch cuts a serpentine path through the eastern Allegheny Mountains.
Jennings Randolph Lake to the southwest on the North Branch of the Potomac was completed in 1982 as "Bloomington Lake" but was renamed in 1987 by the United States Congress for West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph. Borderside, a historic home, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [4] The Bloomington Viaduct was ...
In West Virginia, I-79 is known as the Jennings Randolph Expressway, named for the West Virginia representative and senator. In the three most northern counties, it is signed as part of the High Tech Corridor. For most of its Pennsylvania stretch, it is known as the Raymond P. Shafer Highway, named for the 39th Pennsylvania governor.
State Route 11 (SR 11) is a north–south freeway in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio.Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 30 (US 30) in East Liverpool at the West Virginia state line on the Jennings Randolph Bridge over the Ohio River from that state's northern panhandle; its northern terminus is at SR 531 in Ashtabula.
Cross is located just east of Jennings Randolph Lake on West Virginia Route 46. References This page was last edited on 23 July 2023, at 23:42 (UTC). Text is ...