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The Chain Bridge is a viaduct that crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia. The steel girder bridge carries close to 22,000 cars a day. [ 2 ] It connects Washington, D.C. with affluent sections of Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia.
Little Falls is an area of rapids located where the Potomac River crosses the Atlantic Seaboard fall line where Washington, DC; Maryland; and Virginia meet. Descending from the harder and older rocks of the Piedmont Plateau to the softer sediments of the Atlantic coastal plain, it is the first upstream "cataract", or barrier, to navigation encountered on the Potomac River. [2]
The Clara Barton Parkway crosses Little Falls Branch and enters the District of Columbia before reaching its eastern terminus at an intersection with Canal Road and Chain Bridge Road. Canal Road heads east toward Georgetown while Chain Bridge Road crosses the Chain Bridge into Arlington, Virginia to connect with Virginia State Routes 120 and ...
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Little Falls Dam, also known as Brookmont Dam, is a low dam on the Potomac River, built in 1959 to divert water for the water supply system of Washington, D.C., just below Mather Gorge, about 2 miles (3.2 km) above Chain Bridge.
State Route 123 (SR 123) or Virginia State Route 123 (VA 123) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.The state highway runs 29.27 miles (47.11 km) from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Woodbridge north to the Chain Bridge across the Potomac River into Washington from Arlington.
Little Falls Branch just north of the Clara Barton Parkway in Brookmont, Maryland. Little Falls Branch, a 3.8-mile-long (6.1 km) [1] tributary stream of the Potomac River, is located in Montgomery County, Maryland. In the 19th century, the stream was also called Powder Mill Branch. [2]
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