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We recently made a visit to Great Falls on the Potomac River, from the Maryland side of the river. We began by parking at the Great Falls Tavern, a stone lockhouse originally built to provide shelter for a lock keeper and his family. That’s because the tavern is adjacent to lock #20 on the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Canal, the 184 mile long canal which shadows the Potomac and spans from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland.
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