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2. Chain Bridge (Potomac River) - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Little Falls (Potomac River) - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. Little Falls Dam (Potomac River) - Wikipedia

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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.

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6. Watch live aerials of Baltimore bridge collapse after ship ...

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   Watch live aerial views of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, after it collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday morning (26 March). A container ship crashed into the structure at ...

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   WASHINGTON – Investigators on Friday worked to piece together what exactly led to the collision of a passenger plane and a U.S. Army helicopter that killed 67 people as families, officials and ...

8. Potomac River - Wikipedia

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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]

9. Long Bridge (Potomac River) - Wikipedia

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   It was the second bridge to cross the Potomac in the District of Columbia, following a 1797 span at a narrower crossing near Little Falls, upstream of Georgetown, at the site of the present Chain Bridge. At the time it opened and also in the official documents, it was referred to as Washington Bridge, Potomac Bridge or simply "the Bridge" but ...