People and the Potomac
Great Falls Park
The Potomac River is the second largest watershed feeding the Chesapeake Bay. Early peoples depended on the river for food and made their homes along its banks. European settlers saw the river as a source for transportation, expansion, and settlement.
We still rely on the river in important ways. Most of the people in the Washington, D.C. area depend on the Potomac River as a source of their drinking water. Millions more see the river as a place to recreate - a place to escape from busy lives.
What is YOUR relationship to the river?
Marker can be reached from the intersection of Old Dominion Drive and Georgetown Pike (Virginia Route 193).
Courtesy hmdb.org
