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Defunct canal lock in Washington, D.C.
The
Tidewater Lock
is a
dam
[1]
in
Washington, D.C.
to the west of the mouth of
Rock Creek
at the
Potomac River
, on the east side of
Georgetown
. Built to connect the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
, opened in 1831, with the Potomac, it was a busy maritime intersection during several decades of the canal's heyday. C&O documents refer to it variously as Lock 0 and Tide Lock A.
Canal documents sometimes list a "Tide Lock B" on section "I" which stood at the lockhouse at 17th and Constitution Ave NW. It was completed in 1834.
[2]
Today, the lock marks Milestone 0 of the
National Park Service
's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal trail.
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View of downstream gate pocket where the canal joins the Potomac River
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Ruins of the waste weir, which adjoins the Tidewater lock
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Tidewater lock, with the
Watergate complex
in the background
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