It has been about 100 years since barges floated along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Washington, D.C., and rural ...

VEILED BENEATH A CANOPY OF SYCAMORE, SILVER MAPLE, BOX ELDER, AND BIRCH IS ONE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOST AMBITIOUS SCHEMES: THE CANAL HE BELIEVED WOULD TRANSFORM THE POTOMAC INTO THE NATION'S ...

The carriage and ferry excursion led to a quarry next to what is now the C&O Canal ... the Potomac River was a possibility, there were significant challenges. Former President George Washington ...

You can find both at the various kayak rental outposts along the Potomac ... George's County parks department. Fletchers Boathouse is the most nature-filled location, letting you explore the C&O ...

As the first president of the United States, George Washington ... threw a silver dollar across the Potomac,” he said, indicating another parable to explain Washington’s athletic prowess.

Between ten and eleven on December 14, Washington died in his bedchamber with Martha at the foot of his bed. His last words were simply: “‘Tis well.” For four days, his body lay in the mansion’s New ...

(7News) — One person is in the hospital and another is dead after a car ended up in the Potomac River Thursday ... ended up in the river near the George Washington Parkway, north of the Humpback ...

This essay is adapted from First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making ... In the finished painting, it is the Potomac River that curves gently through the background.

Potomac Yard is a neighborhood ... in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks (or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the definition ...