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    The Patowmack Canal, sometimes called the Potomac Canal, is a series of five inoperative canals located in Maryland and Virginia, United States, that...
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    Northeastern United States Floods. Multiple canal systems were built around Great Falls. The remains of the Patowmack Canal, built in the 18th century, can be...
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    the Patowmack Company were ceded to the Chesapeake and Ohio Company. (Rejected names for the canal included the "Potomac Canal" and "Union Canal".) By...
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  • Potomac (redirect from Patowmack)
    Potomac River's watershed in West Virginia Patowmack Canal, also spelled Potomac, a series of five inoperative canals in Maryland and Virginia Potomac, Maryland...
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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...
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    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 lower boats...
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    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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    Contra Costa Canal Corning Canal Delta–Mendota Canal Eastside Canal Folsom South Canal Friant-Kern Canal Glenn Colusa Canal Inter-California Canal Kern Island...
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    Washington was involved with building a canal around the falls on the southwest, or Virginia, side, called the Patowmack Canal, which did not become commercially...
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    Great Falls made such a journey impossible until the completion of the Patowmack Canal in 1803. Washington sent out Captain Hog with 75 men to pursue French...
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