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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 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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  • Sunset near Highway 1, CA.
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  • The historic town of Harpers Ferry is illuminated from a full moon above; as seen from the edge of Maryland Heights.<br />
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On the night of October 16th, 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge (the piers of which can be seen below at left) to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would spread throughout the entire South. <br />
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While his raid failed, the news of John Brown's attempt was an earthquake that reverberated throughout the entire Union and split the fault line between North and South. denounced as a psychotic terrorist by Southerners, Brown was embraced by many Northern abolitionists as a martyr. This outpouring of support for Brown exasperated Southern suspicions of a yankee-abolitionist plot to subjugate the South under Northern control through emancipation; by force if necessary. Southern states, long fearful of slave revolts, revived the militia system to combat all future "John Browns" laying the foundation for what would become the Confederate Army. <br />
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On the morning of his execution, John Brown handed a note to one of his guards that would become prophetic: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood..." 16 months later, Confederate batteries in Charleston would open fire on Fort Sumter, and the bloody purge would begin.
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  • Glade Creek Grist Mill. Babcock State Park. West Virginia.
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  • New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, W.Va.
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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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  • Lightning flashes over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
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  • Cherry Blossoms are reflected in the waters of Tidal Basin on an April morning in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • A nearly full moon illuminates passing clouds over a wintry Highland Scenic Highway in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • On the night of October 16th 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would begin in Virginia and move South along the Blue Ridge as word of the revolt spread. The raid was initially successful. Brown's men seized the railroad bridge, rounded up the town's watchmen, cut the telegraph wire and seized the arsenal complex (guarded by a single sentry) without incident. It all went downhill from there. <br />
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Brown's entire plan hinged on the assumption that slaves in the surrounding countryside would flock to him after receiving word of the raid. However, no slaves were made aware of the planned attack, and consequently Brown quickly found himself surrounded in the morning not by eager runaway slaves but by angry townspeople and militia. Volleys were exchanged and hostages taken as Brown and his men retreated into the Arsenal's engine house (known today as John Brown's Fort)  barricading themselves inside. <br />
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Meanwhile, An eastbound B&O train stopped by Brown's men earlier that morning was allowed to continue forward, whose conductor quickly wired a telegram reporting the raid to officials in Baltimore. In a matter of hours, Washington was alerted to the attack. President Buchanan dispatched a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee; future commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, to end the siege and capture John Brown. The Marines arrived in Harper's Ferry the next day. Brown refused to surrender himself in exchange for the lives of his remaining men, and the marines stormed the engine house to take Brown prisoner.
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  • The coastline of Big Sur is seen from a series of cliffs above the swirling seawater after a passing storm at dusk.
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  • Two girls gaze over Tidal Basin beneath a grove of cherry blossoms on a Spring morning in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The cherry blossoms of Tidal Basin are seen in peak bloom in the early morning hours in Washington, D.C.
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  • The cherry blossoms of Tidal Basin are seen in peak bloom as a crescent moon rises in the distance near the Jefferson Memorial in the early morning hours of Spring in Washington, D.C.
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  • Cherry blossoms surround the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the rim of Tidal Basin at dawn on Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The cherry blossoms of Tidal Basin are seen in peak bloom in the early morning hours in Washington, D.C.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, 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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  • Glade Creek Grist Mill. Babcock State Park. West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky over the Highland Scenic Highway. Monongahela National Forest. 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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  • 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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  • Cherry blossoms surround the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the rim of Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 12, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • A group of friends gaze over Tidal Basin beneath a grove of cherry blossoms on the morning of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • A photographer watches as the sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours in Washington, D.C.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, 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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  • On the road to Dryfork. Route 32. West Virginia.
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  • Lights from a house are illuminated in fog that blankets Browns Creek road under a starry sky in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
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  • The cherry blossoms of Tidal Basin are seen in peak bloom as a crescent moon rises in the distance near the Jefferson Memorial in the early morning hours of Spring in Washington, D.C.
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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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  • Spectators watch and take pictures as the sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
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  • New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, W.Va.
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  • Travelers at LAX. Los Angeles, California.
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  • A single coal barge traveling up the Ohio River is seen on April 19, 2019 from a window of one of West Virginia Army National Guard Company C, 1-150th Assault Battalion’s latest aircraft- the UH-60M Black Hawk. The UH-60M Blackhawks, of which the unit will receive ten by January 2020,  are the first factory-new aircraft ever received by the unit.
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  • The Lily Pond and El Prado Arcade are seen under a cool summer night sky in San Diego, CA. The lily pond lies adjacent to the Botanical Building, one of the largest lath structures in the world. The pond, one of the most photographed landmarks in San Diego, was created for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego's Balboa Park. Brought about with the aim of highlighting San Diego as the first U.S. port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the newly opened Panama Canal, the exposition occurred at the same time as the larger Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Nonetheless, the fair was widely regarded as a success, with over two million visitors by the end of 1915 and just under 1.7 million attendees in its second year (due to it's success, the fair was extended from its original one year duration). <br />
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As was customary of world's fair's of that era, the attractions and structures of the Panama-California exposition were constructed with cheap, temporary materials with the intention of being demolished once the fair had ended. However, Many notable visitors including Teddy Roosevelt advocated for the preservation of the immaculate structures. As a result, many of the fair's buildings and gardens were renovated or reconstructed with permanent building materials in order to ensure their enjoyment by future generations.
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