Congress authorized its construction to preserve and enhance the Potomac River valley, to keep the river’s banks in public ownership and to pay tribute to the first U.S. President George ...

Located on the Potomac River just south of Washington, D.C. Fort Hunt was originally a part of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.

The path under construction extends East Moline’s Beacon Harbor Parkway Trail, a branch off the Great River Trail along the Mississippi River, to 10 th Street in Silvis.