Chart of the head of navigation of the Potomac River - surveyed by order of the Sec. of War for the Corporation of Georgetown D.C. with a view to the improvement of the Georgetown Channel
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes note. DCP
- Date
- 1857
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Burgess, R. W.; Woodruff, I. C.; Callahan, Denis; United States. Army. Corps Of Topographical Engineers; United States. Congress Senate
- Place
- Virginia
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 12,420 × 7,966 pixels
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"Chart of the head of navigation of the Potomac River - surveyed by order of the Sec. of War for the Corporation of Georgetown D.C. with a view to the improvement of the Georgetown Channel" (1857). Burgess, R. W.; Woodruff, I. C.; Callahan, Denis; United States. Army. Corps Of Topographical Engineers; United States. Congress Senate. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_of_the_head_of_navigation_of_the_Potomac_River_-_surveyed_by_order_of_the_Sec._of_War_for_the_Corporation_of_Georgetown_D.C._with_a_view_to_the_improvement_of_the_Georgetown_Channel_LOC_87695765.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 10565.
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