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  • The C&O Canal (short for Chesapeake and Ohio) is seen at dusk along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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  • The Blue Ridge Mountains are shrouded in fog in the late evening. Shenandoah National Park, as seen from along Skyline Drive.
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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  • The town of Luray glows in the distance as passing cars light up the trees lining skyline drive in Shenandoah national park.
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  • A family takes pictures of themselves with yesterday's sunset from an overlook along skyline drive in Shenandoah national park.
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  • Moonlit night over Skyline Drive. Shenandoah National Park. Virginia
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  • Northbound on 16th Street NW during the Snowzilla blizzard on January 23, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
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  • A bolt of lightning strikes the Chesapeake Bay during a brief and fast moving storm. As seen from North Beach in Calvert County, Maryland.
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  • The sun rises over the East Bay hills, as seen from the summit of Mount Tamalpais in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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  • A great blue heron stands on the edge of the C&O Canal at dusk. As seen from along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • The Wrigley building is seen at night along the Chicago River.
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  • Cars and people line king street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
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  • Buckingham fountain and the Chicago Skyline are seen at dusk.
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  • The Atlanta skyline and Interstate 85 are seen in a long exposure at night through a chain-linked fence.
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