Little Falls (Potomac River)
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Little Falls is an area of rapids located where the Potomac River crosses the Atlantic Seaboard fall line where Washington, DC; Maryland; and Virginia meet. Descending from the harder and older rocks
View of the river near Little Falls from the Chain Bridge
Chain Bridge (Potomac River)
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The Chain Bridge is a viaduct that crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The steel girder bridge carries close to 22,000 cars a
Little Falls (Potomac River)
…plain, it is the first upstream "cataract", or barrier, to navigation encountered on the Potomac River. It may be viewed from the heavily trafficked Chain Bridge, about a half mile downstream. It is named in contradistinction to Great Falls, about 10 miles further upstream. Captain John Smith (1580–1631) of…
Chain Bridge viewed Arlington with Washington D.C. visible on the distant shore in October 2016
An 1839 illustration of the fourth Chain Bridge
Chain Bridge during American Civil War
The seventh Chain Bridge in 1920