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The river forms part of the borders between Maryland and Washington, D.C., on the left descending bank, and West Virginia and Virginia on the right descending bank. Except for a small portion of its headwaters in West Virginia, the North Branch Potomac River is considered part of Maryland to the low-water mark on the opposite bank.
Harper's Ferry / Washington County. Bollman Truss Bridge (abutments) [1] CSX. Harper's Ferry / Washington County. Virginia / Maryland. Sandy Hook Bridge. US 340. Loudoun Heights / Washington County.
The border with Maryland is at the foreground shoreline. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presided over the ground-breaking ceremony for the bridge in 1938. [ 1 ] [ 11 ] Known as the Potomac River Bridge when opened in December 1940, the bridge was renamed in 1967 for Harry W. Nice (1877–1941) who served as governor of Maryland from 1935 to 1939.
The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as part of the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in the colonial United States.
The Shenandoah River / ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə / is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, [3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the ...
This article includes lists of border crossings, ordered from west to east (north to south for Alaska crossings), along the Canada–United States border. Each port of entry (POE) in the tables below links to an article about that crossing. On the U.S. side, each crossing has a three-letter Port of Entry code.
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but the only one in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri -state marker with Tennessee.
Location. The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, also known as the Woodrow Wilson Bridgeor the Wilson Bridge, is a bascule bridgethat spans the Potomac Riverbetween Alexandria, Virginiaand Oxon Hill, Marylandin Prince George's County, Maryland. The original bridge was one of only a handful of drawbridgesin the Interstate Highway System.