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TITLE:
Potowmack Company: Great Falls Canal, Lock No. 2, Great Falls, Fairfax County, VA
CALL NUMBER:
HAER VA,30-GREFA,1B-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 1 (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 11 (5 x 7 in.)
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
NOTE:
Survey number HAER VA-13-B
SUBJECTS:
VIRGINIA--Fairfax County--Great Falls
OTHER TITLE:
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.va1446
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. General view from top of Lock 2 looking NE. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
2. East wall of Lock 2 looking SE from top of lock. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
3. General view from S of Lock 2. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
4. East wall of Lock 2 showing masonry repairwork. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
5. West wall of Lock 2 looking N. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
6. East wall of Lock 2 looking N showing deformation of masonry. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
7. View of interior of Lock No. 2 on George washington 'Potowmack' Canal at Great Falls, Virginia. This lock is about 15 ft. in depth and possibly 70 or 60 ft. in length. Some 15 or 20 years ago, when a restoration was crudely attempted, the old oaken flooring, which was invariably placed at the bottom of canal locks, was roughly torn up and destroyed. The trunks and stumps of gigantic trees still remain from this restorative effort, and their girth indicates again the antiquity of this evidence of George Washington's work as an engineer. The stones are of the red Seneca type and were evidently ferried from the Maryland side above the dam and then brought by sled or rollers to this location. These stones were beautifully hand-cut and fitted with ...
8. South end of Lock 2 showing gate recess in east wall. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
9. South end of Lock 2 showing deterioration of east wall. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
10. Detail of mason's mark inscribed on stone in east wall of Lock 2. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
11. Detail of stone work in east wall of Lock 2. Jack Boucher, photographer, 1971.
CONTROL #:
VA1446
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