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The gatehouse was constructed at the Georgetown Reservoir to pump water into the four-mile long Washington City Tunnel that led to McMillan Reservoir, completed in 1902. [2] [3] A filtration system was constructed at McMillan in 1905 and this system improved the quality of city water. [3] [4] [5] Construction of the gatehouse began in 1899.
At the outlet of the Georgetown facility is a sluice gate building that controls the flow of water into Washington City Tunnel, which leads to the McMillan Reservoir. This structure, called the Georgetown Castle Gatehouse , was built by the Army (c. 1901) in the shape of a castle.
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 ...
The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building (known locally as the Castle [3] or Library Hall [4]) in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania is a building from 1890. It was listed on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1975, [5] National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]
Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct; Center Valley Well House; Chalybeate Springs Hotel Springhouse; Chenoweth Fort-Springhouse; Chillicothe Water and Power Company Pumping Station; City Waterworks, Sarasota; Clifton Park Valve House; Cold Spring Farm Springhouse; Compton Hill Reservoir Park; Crescent Hill Reservoir; Croton Aqueduct; Croton ...
Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct; Clifton Park Valve House; Croton Aqueduct Gate House; F. ... Hobbs Brook Basin Gate House; L.
The park is named for a landmark 2006 public sculpture in bronze by James A. West, Point of View. This piece depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta, with their weapons down, in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770, when the two men met while Washington was in the area examining land for future settlement along the Ohio River.
Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Tunnel: Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad: Mount Washington: 40°25'41.20"N, 80°0'18.61"W: Also known as Mount Washington Coal Tunnel. Sometimes confused with the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel, which follows a similar alignment at a lower elevation of Mount Washington. [3] Schenley Tunnel: P&W Subdivision