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The Aqueduct Bridge, also called the Alexandria Aqueduct, was a bridge that carried traffic between Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and Rosslyn, Virginia, from 1843 to 1923. It was built to transport cargo-carrying boats on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown across the Potomac River to the Alexandria Canal.
The Washington Aqueduct Dam, upstream of the Potomac River's Great Falls. The centerpiece of the Aqueduct is a 12-mile (19 km) pipeline that connects the system's dam at Great Falls with the Dalecarlia Reservoir on the border with Montgomery County, Maryland. Portions of the Aqueduct went online on January 3, 1859, and the full pipeline began ...
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Aqueduct Bridge (Potomac River), between Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and Rosslyn, Virginia, U.S. See also. Aqueduct (bridge) This page was last edited on 11 May ...
Potomac Aqueduct: Ruin Queen post truss 1843 1983 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: Potomac River: DC-6: Connecticut Avenue Bridge: Extant Reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch: 1907 1987 Connecticut Avenue, NW Rock Creek and Beach Drive, NW
A railroad bridge from Maryland to West Virginia, over the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, is closed after a fire on Monday.
In 1843, the Potomac Aqueduct Bridge was built near the present-day Francis Scott Key Bridge to connect the canal to the Alexandria Canal, which led to Alexandria, Virginia. [42] In April 1843, floods damaged much of the finished portion of the canal between Georgetown and Harpers Ferry, including the Shenandoah river lock.