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CLOSE VIEW OF THE WHITEHURST FREEWAY AND THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT - Potomac Aqueduct, Georgetown abutment at Georgetown waterfront, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Related names:

Turnball, William
Miller, Benjamin F
Potomac Boat Club
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
U.S. Army Topographical Engineers
Alexandria Canal Company
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Haines, Peter C
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Title
CLOSE VIEW OF THE WHITEHURST FREEWAY AND THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT - Potomac Aqueduct, Georgetown abutment at Georgetown waterfront, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS DC,GEO,1-28
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: An important and well preserved remnant of one of America's earliest engineering triumphs. Intimately connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and the development of commercial Georgetown in the early 19th century.
  • Survey number: HABS DC-166
  • Building/structure dates: 1833 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1861 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1866 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1868 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work
References

This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 67000025.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0967.photos.378675p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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