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  2. Power Plant and Dam No. 4 - Wikipedia

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    A view of Big Slackwater, made by Dam No. 4. Towpath of the C & O Canal continues on the right. The dam was originally built for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.On June 7, 1832, the contract was awarded to Joseph Hollman, and the work was completed in June 1835, at a cost of $50.803.15 [6] To avoid construction costs, the canal entered the slackwater above the dam, and continued in the ...

  3. Potomac River - Wikipedia

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    The source of the North Branch Potomac River is at the Fairfax Stone located at the junction of Grant, Tucker and Preston counties in West Virginia. From the Fairfax Stone, the North Branch Potomac River flows 27 mi (43 km) to the man-made Jennings Randolph Lake, an impoundment designed for flood control and emergency water supply. Below the ...

  4. Template:Potomac River routemap - Wikipedia

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    This is a route-map template for the Potomac River, a waterway in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.

  5. List of rivers of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    South Fork South Branch Potomac River; South Fork Tye River; South Mayo River; South Meherrin River; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Virginia (1974) Salmon ...

  6. List of tributaries of the Potomac River - Wikipedia

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    This is a complete list of tributary streams of the Potomac River in the Eastern United States, listed in order from source to mouth. North Branch Potomac River (Maryland/West Virginia) South Branch Potomac River (Virginia/West Virginia) Town Creek (Maryland/Pennsylvania) Big Run (Maryland) Little Cacapon River (West Virginia) Purslane Run ...

  7. South Branch Wildlife Management Area - Wikipedia

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    The South Branch Wildlife Management Area is 1,092 acres (4.42 km 2) [2] of mixed oak-hickory woodlands and pastures in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, USA.The South Branch WMA consists of four separate tracts (McNeill, Bridge, Trough Club, and Sector) along the South Branch Potomac River around and south of the river gorge known as The Trough.

  8. 'Frankenfish': Invasive northern snakeheads harvested in ...

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    The 13,000 pounds of snakehead harvested from the Conowingo were sent to J.J. McDonnell and Co. Inc., a seafood wholesaler south of Baltimore in Elkridge, Maryland, for processing.

  9. South Branch Potomac River - Wikipedia

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    The South Branch Potomac River has its headwaters in northwestern Highland County, Virginia, near Hightown along the eastern edge of the Allegheny Front. After a river distance of 139 miles (224 km), [ 4 ] the mouth lies east of Green Spring , Hampshire County, West Virginia , where it meets the North Branch Potomac River to form the Potomac .