Tide Lock and Rock Creek Basin

Historical marker location:

2900 Virginia Avenue Northwest, Georgetown, District of Columbia

( Marker can be reached from Virginia Avenue Northwest just west of Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Northwest, on the right when traveling west.)

Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior

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