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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 ...
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 ...
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 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.
Potomac River. Antietam Creek ( / ænˈtiːtəm /) is a 41.7-mile-long (67.1 km) [ 1] tributary of the Potomac River located in south central Pennsylvania and western Maryland in the United States, a region known as the Hagerstown Valley. The creek became famous as a focal point of the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War .
The Susquehanna River (/ ˌsʌskwəˈhænə / SUSS-kwə-HAN-ə; Lenape: Siskëwahane[7]) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland). At 444 miles (715 km) long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States. [8]