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The Potomac River in Washington, D.C., with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia in the background. The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2).
The Shenandoah River / ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə / is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, [3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the ...
The Chesapeake Bay is the end point of over 150 rivers and streams. [19] The largest rivers flowing directly into the Bay, in order of discharge, [20] [21] are: Susquehanna River; Potomac River; James River; Rappahannock River; York River; Patuxent River; Choptank River; For more information on Chesapeake Bay rivers, see the List of Chesapeake ...
The South Branch Potomac River has its headwaters in northwestern Highland County, Virginia, near Hightown along the eastern edge of the Allegheny Front. After a river distance of 139 miles (224 km), [ 4 ] the mouth lies east of Green Spring , Hampshire County, West Virginia , where it meets the North Branch Potomac River to form the Potomac .
In 1785, Washington founded the Potowmack Company to improve the navigability of the Potomac River. His company built five skirting canals around the major falls: Little Falls (later incorporated in the C&O Canal), Great Falls in Virginia , Seneca Falls (opposite Violette's lock), Payne's Falls of the Shenandoah, and House's Falls near Harpers ...
The Potomac River sweeps to the west at approximately this point; the parkway continues along its rough north–south path and instead parallels the small Potomac tributary of Rock Creek. View south at the north end of the parkway. Past Virginia Avenue, the parkway has many characteristics of a freeway, most notably limited access by ramp.
Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park is a West Virginia state park commemorating the Fairfax Stone, a surveyor's marker and boundary stone at the source of the North Branch of the Potomac River. The original stone was placed on October 23, 1746 [3] to settle a boundary dispute between Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and the ...
The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland. There are three main river drainages for central Maryland: the Potomac River to the west passing through Washington, D.C., the Patapsco River to the northeast passing through Baltimore, and the Patuxent River between the two. The 908-square-mile (2,352 km 2) [ 1 ...