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Across the Potomac from the mouth of a creek, a special lock on the C&O Canal was constructed to allow canal boats from Goose Creek to enter the canal. By 1845, the Goose Creek and Little River Navigation Company canal system had been completed on Goose Creek to Ball's (Evergreen) Mill, 12 miles (19 km) upstream from the mouth. Due to financial ...
The creek flows eastward near Arcola and continues generally northeast to its mouth at the Potomac near the southern end of Seldon's Island to the north of Sterling and about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Leesburg. [2] The watershed of the creek is 67.5 mi 2 (175 km 2) in Loudoun and 23.8 mi 2 (62 km 2) in Fairfax. [3]
Although the city of Goose Creek was established in 1961, [7] its history dates back many centuries. In the 1670s the Etiwan moved to the area to escape the Westo, seeking protection among the plantations of early colonists who were often referred to as the "Goose Creek men", mostly settled a few miles north of Charleston near a stream called Goose Creek, a tributary of the Cooper River.
Difficult Run is a 15.9-mile-long (25.6 km) [1] tributary stream of the Potomac River in Northern Virginia in the United States. [2]The stream is part of a 57.7-square-mile drainage basin, or watershed, in the north-central portion of Fairfax County, Virginia.
Goose Creek State Park is home to six hiking trails. Flatty Creek Trail is a one-mile (1.6 km) loop trail that begins and ends at the parking area near the campground. Much of the trail is on boardwalks over the fresh water and brackish water wetlands of the park. Goose Creek Trail is a 1.9-mile (3.06-km) trail that passes through a cypress swamp.
Into the late 1700s, [7] it was most-often referred to as Goose Creek or Goose Neck Creek. Post-colonial cartographers switched between 'Goose Creek—as seen on Thomas Jefferys' 1776 map [ 8 ] and Aaron Arrowsmith 's 1804 map— [ 9 ] and Toms Creek, as in Mathew Carey 's 1795 State Map of New Jersey. [ 10 ]
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Goose Creek is a stream in Caldwell County of Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of Shoal Creek. The headwaters are located at 39°35′45″N 94°10′41″W / 39.59583°N 94.17806°W / 39.59583; -94.17806 and the confluence with Shoal Creek are at 39°39′58″N 94°04′29″W / 39.66611°N 94.07472°W / 39.66611