Chain Bridge

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In 1797, the merchants of Georgetown built here the first bridge over the Potomac River in order to compete with the Virginia port of Alexandria. The Falls Bridge allowed trade from the "upper country" of Virginia to move directly to Georgetown over the G

• On the George Washington Memorial ParkwayNational
• 2.1 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
• 0.5 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
• 10.0 mi off the Booth's Escape

Local time (America/New_York).

38.92953, -77.11697

Elevation 24 m (modelled from terrain)

• OpenStreetMap record