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. The most well known of them is the Great Falls skirting canal, whose remains are managed by the National Park Service since it is within Great Falls Park, an integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway.[5]
The first section of the canal opened in 1795, and the canal ended operations in 1828.
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^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
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^"Great Falls Timeline". National Park Service. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
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