Picture A Day - Day 6 & 7
RocketMan
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Day six was kind of a bust nothing really worth sharing but I did learn a few new things so all was not lost.
On to Day 7....
Headed downtown today to get some shots of the old viaduct that once carried the Alexandria canal across the Potomac into old town where it ended at the tidal locks, one of which I did the pictures and write up about for day 5. Because of the buildings and power poles and such surrounding it I couldn’t really do it justice but did get at least one nice picture out of the series, as seen below.
This is a view of the stone work for the last supporting structure where the viaduct connected to the C&O canal wall.
The rest are a series of shots of the last two arches of the viaduct that is all that remains today, other than one footing that can be seen on the other side of the river just upstream from the Key Bridge.
The mound in the foreground is where the first arch is located below, not quite sure how they got the barges over that though I do know they had very sallow draft, still….
Here you can see the arch referred to above.
and Finally this is the Lockkeepers House at 17th and Constitution Ave. Back when DC was first designed and built, Constitution Ave was a canal that ran up to the Capitol and then turned to flow into the Potomac with a side branch flowing to the Anacostia.
It was filled in because too many residents used the canal to dump trash and garbage. Yuck!
RM
On to Day 7....
Headed downtown today to get some shots of the old viaduct that once carried the Alexandria canal across the Potomac into old town where it ended at the tidal locks, one of which I did the pictures and write up about for day 5. Because of the buildings and power poles and such surrounding it I couldn’t really do it justice but did get at least one nice picture out of the series, as seen below.
This is a view of the stone work for the last supporting structure where the viaduct connected to the C&O canal wall.
The rest are a series of shots of the last two arches of the viaduct that is all that remains today, other than one footing that can be seen on the other side of the river just upstream from the Key Bridge.
The mound in the foreground is where the first arch is located below, not quite sure how they got the barges over that though I do know they had very sallow draft, still….
Here you can see the arch referred to above.
and Finally this is the Lockkeepers House at 17th and Constitution Ave. Back when DC was first designed and built, Constitution Ave was a canal that ran up to the Capitol and then turned to flow into the Potomac with a side branch flowing to the Anacostia.
It was filled in because too many residents used the canal to dump trash and garbage. Yuck!
RM
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