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  • Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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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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  • 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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  • Moonlit Night and Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • The old gristmill is seen amidst the colors of fall in Babcock State Park near Clifftop, W.V., on Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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  • Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • A woman holds an umbrella on a rainy day amidst fall colors at the Glade Creek Grist Mill inside Babcock State Park near Clifftop, W.Va., on Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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  • Moonlit Night and Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • Twilight over Paint Creek and Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • The old gristmill is seen amidst the colors of fall in Babcock State Park near Clifftop, W.V., on Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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  • Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • Glade Creek Grist Mill. Babcock State Park. West Virginia.
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  • Glade Creek Grist Mill. Babcock State Park. West Virginia.
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  • Autumn in Richwood, W.Va.
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  • Autumn in Shenandoah National Park, as seen from Skyline Drive.
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  • Moonlit night over Skyline Drive. Shenandoah National Park. Virginia
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  • An autumn tinged chestnut tree is illuminated by headlights under a starry sky in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 18, 2014 in Shenandoah National Park. Taking a night drive along the famed road inside the park Skyline Drive is a good way to beat the normal crowd and enjoy a pristine sunrise.
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  • Autumn Road in West Virginia.
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  • Multnomah Falls, located just outside of Portland in the Columbia River Gorge. Oregon.
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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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  • Snowpack covers the landscape of Great Falls on the Maryland side of Great Falls Park.
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  • Dusk over Blackwater Falls. Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
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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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  • Blackwater Falls is seen in the early morning from an overlook in the park outside of Davis, W. Va.
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  • Passing storm over farmlands Southeast of Columbia Falls, MT.
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  • Among the thousands of commuters who pass daily over D.C.’s Chain Bridge, some may wonder; just where are the chains? <br />
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The chains haven’t been around since the actual chain-suspension bridge from which the name originated was overcome by storms and flooding in 1840, yet the name has stuck to every new bridge built to replace it since. But that is just one piece of Chain Bridge’s rich history. The span over which Chain Bridge is built is one of the oldest crossing routes in the vicinity of the capital. In fact, the wood covered bridge that was built here in 1797 was the very first bridge to span the Potomac River. This cycle of bridges being created and destroyed by the elements continued up to the Civil War, when the sixth chain bridge (a crossbeam truss design with no chains) played a vital role in the supply and movement of Union army encampments throughout fairfax county. Because of its close proximity to the capital, the bridge was heavily guarded by sentries and artillery throughout the war. While today’s (eighth and final, so far) chain bridge was built in 1939, it stands on the stone piers of the seventh chain bridge built shortly after the civil war in the early 1870’s.
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  • The moon rises over the Kanawha River at Glen Ferris, W,Va., on Monday, August 28, 2018.
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  • A woman holds an umbrella on a rainy day amidst fall colors at the Glade Creek Grist Mill inside Babcock State Park near Clifftop, W.Va., on Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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  • The old gristmill is seen amidst the colors of fall in Babcock State Park near Clifftop, W.V., on Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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  • Devils Tower is framed by an obscured full moon and the last of the fall leaves at the base of the monument. Located in Northeast Wyoming, Devils Tower was the first declared National Monument in the United States, established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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  • Rachel Trout walks her dog Lilly past a house partly destroyed by a falling tree after a tornado tore through Charleston, W.V., on June 24, 2019.
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  • Dwight Ford hands over his daughter Jasmine, 8, to her mother Laura Stallings after the car they were driving in was struck by a falling pole that had itself been hit by a lightning bolt after a tornado tore through Charleston, W.V., on June 24, 2019.
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  • History is not just around you in Washington, you're most likely standing or driving on it as well. Take the bridge connecting Pennsylvania Avenue to Georgetown for example. This bridge doesn’t just carry traffic; it’s been carrying the very water Washingtonians drink and shower with since the Civil War. <br />
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Until the 1850’s, Pennsylvania avenue ended at Rock Creek, the only bridge into Georgetown being the M Street bridge. More importantly however, Georgetown and Washington had no clean or dependable water supply, relying instead on a mishmash of natural springs throughout the area that were often disease-ridden. After a fire in the Library of Congress destroyed over 30,000 books, funding was approved by Congress to build an effective water delivery system for the growing Capital. The project was overseen by Montgomery Meigs, who devised a massive, ambitious aqueduct system spanning from Great Falls to the Washington Navy Yard. Using open conduits, tunnels and bridges to transport the water via gravity through three separate reservoirs, the aqueduct was one of the first major water projects in the United States and was celebrated as an engineering marvel upon its completion after eight years of construction. The Pennsylvania avenue bridge is just one part of that elaborate water system, and was celebrated in its own right, with the aqueduct pipes simultaneously serving as the main support for the bridge itself. The superstructure of the old bridge was replaced with a stone facade as part of an expansion plan in 1916. However, the original pipes remain after 150 years; hidden behind the stone and underneath our tires.
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