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An 1839 illustration of Chain Bridge Chain Bridge during American Civil War The underside of Chain Bridge Chain Bridge crossing the Potomac River. The first bridge at the location opened on July 3, 1797. It was a wooden covered bridge, and rotted and collapsed in 1804. [3] [4] The second bridge, of similar type, burned six months after it was ...
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]
A small section of ZIP Code 20707 is located in Montgomery County. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.33 square miles (11.21 km 2 ), of which 4.30 square miles (11.14 km 2 ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km 2 ) is water.
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.
The highway runs 6.8 miles (10.9 km) from MacArthur Boulevard in Carderock, Maryland, east to Canal Road at the Chain Bridge in Washington. The Clara Barton Parkway is a two- to four-lane parkway that parallels the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) in southwestern Montgomery County, Maryland, and the far western corner of ...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) unveiled the design for the new Francis Scott Key Bridge almost a year after it was hit by a cargo ship, causing it to ...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore described how one of the two survivors of the collapse was able to walk away from the bridge before the cargo ship collided with it during a March 27 press conference.
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.