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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.
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 ...
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]
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C&O Feeder Dam No. 1 (C&O Canal milepost 5.6, upstream of Chain Bridge near Lock 6; associated with Little Falls Skirting Canal) Seneca Dam aka C&O Feeder Dam No. 2 (at C&O Canal milepost 22, near Violette's Lock) Armory Dam aka C&O Feeder Dam No. 3 (at C&O Canal milepost 62, upstream of Harpers Ferry, WV) [30]
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.
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. It goes by five local names. From its southern terminus to the Occoquan River Bridge, it is known as Gordon Boulevard.