- The
Patowmack Canal,
sometimes called the
Potomac Canal, is a
series of five
inoperative canals located in
Maryland and Virginia,
United States, that...
- Highlands, a
region of the
Potomac River's
watershed in West
Virginia Patowmack Canal, also
spelled Potomac, a
series of five
inoperative canals in Maryland...
- The
Potomac Company (spelled
variously as
Patowmack, Potowmack, Potowmac, and Compony) was
created in 1785 to make
improvements to the
Potomac River and...
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Matildaville is a
ghost town
located along the
Patowmack Canal near
present day
Great Falls, Virginia,
United States. It was
named for the wife of Light...
- are near the
northern boundary of the park, as are the
remains of the
Patowmack Canal, the
first canal in the
United States that used
locks to
raise and...
-
recommended by
Washington and
appointed the
superintendent of the
newly formed Patowmack Company to
oversee the
clearing of
rocks at what is now Harper's Ferry...
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River between Washington, D.C., and ****berland, Maryland. It
replaced the
Patowmack Canal,
which shut down
completely in 1828, and
could operate during months...
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Multiple canal systems were
built around Great Falls. The
remains of the
Patowmack Canal,
built in the 18th century, can be
found on the
Virginia side. The...
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years from "Patawomeck" (as on
Captain John Smith's map) to "Patomake", "
Patowmack", and
numerous other variations in the 18th
century and now "Potomac"...
-
professor of
history at Yale University.
Since 2024, he has
published The
Patowmack Packet, a
Substack containing articles on the
history of Washington, D...
