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A kayaker among shipwrecks in Mallows Bay. Shipwrecks and a kayak in the sanctuary.. The Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary includes more than 200 historic shipwrecks, some of them dating as far back as the American Revolutionary War (1775–1773) and others to the American Civil War (1861–1865). [3]
Purse State Park is a former Maryland state park located on the Potomac River in Charles County that has been subsumed into the 1,365-acre (552 ha) Nanjemoy Wildlife Management Area. [3] As the Purse Area, the former park is known for fossil hunting on the beaches of Wades Bay at the southern end of the Nanjemoy WMA.
The Potomac River (/ p ə ˈ t oʊ m ə k / ⓘ) in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. It is 405 miles (652 km) long, [ 4 ] with a drainage area of 14,700 square miles (38,000 km 2 ), [ 5 ] and is the fourth-largest river along the East Coast of the ...
The bay was listed as an archaeological and historic district on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 2015, [12] and was included in the Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary on September 3, 2019. [5] Among the most prominent ships seen at Mallows Bay is the S.S. Accomac. [13] [14] [15]
The Patowmack Canal, sometimes called the Potomac Canal, is a series of five inoperative canals located in Maryland and Virginia, United States, that was designed to bypass rapids in the Potomac River upstream of the present Washington, D.C., area.
Toggle North Fork South Branch Potomac River subsection. 4.1 Alphabetically. ... Little Georgetown, West Virginia; Little Orleans, Maryland; Loudoun Heights, Virginia ...
3 South Branch Potomac River. 4 See also. Toggle the table of contents. ... Wades Island: 66: Maryland: Montgomery County near Cabin John: Langley Island: 67: Maryland:
The park includes nearly 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) in a strip along the Potomac River. A small portion of the towpath near Harpers Ferry National Historical Park doubles as a section of the Appalachian Trail. The canal begins at its zero mile marker (accessible only via Thompson's Boat House), directly on the Potomac, opposite the Watergate complex.