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The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West is a history of a new
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nation's first effort to link the rich western agricultural lands with the coastal port cities of the
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east. The Potomac Canal Company was founded in 1785, and was active until it was
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overtaken by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company in 1828. During its operation, the
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canal system was used to ship flour from mills in the foothills of Appalachia to the tidewater of
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the Chesapeake, where the flour was shipped to the Caribbean as trade for sugar and other
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panhandle and throughout the Appalachian Piedmont. Coal was also shipped via the canal
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system from the upper reaches of the Potomac River to workshops at Harpers Ferry and
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beyond. This industrial trade route laid the foundation for what would eventually become the
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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