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The Patowmack Company built a number of skirting canals around the major falls including the Patowmack Canal in Virginia.
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In 1824, the holdings of the Patowmack Company were ceded to the Chesapeake and Ohio Company.
The Potomac Company ( spelled variously as Patowmack, Potowmack, Potowmac, and Compony ) was created in 1785 to make improvements to the Potomac River and improve its navigability for commerce.
In the last year of his life, he became one of George Washington's partners in the Patowmack Company, a business enterprise intended to link the middle states with the expanding West by means of a Potomac River canal.
The Patowmack Company, organized May 17, 1785, drew directors and subscribers from both states.
To make the river navigable by even shallow draft boats, the Patowmack Company had to dredge portions of the riverbed and skirt five areas of falls.
An entire town grew up around the construction site to serve as headquarters for the Patowmack Company and home for the workers.
Built to support the canal industry, Matildaville's fate was tied to that of the Patowmack Company.
The Patowmack Company succumbed in 1828, turning over its assets and liabilities to the newly formed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
Although the Patowmack Company was a financial failure, its builders pioneered lock engineering and stimulated a wave of canal construction important to the country's development.
In July 1785, he was recommended by Washington and appointed to oversee the clearing of rocks at what is now Harper's Ferry Patowmack Company.
Likewise, it soon was obvious that the Patowmack Company had a much greater task than any of its members had foreseen.
It may be that, having left the Patowmack Company, Rumsey was loath to work on a propulsion system limited to be used on rivers.
Or, lacking money from the Patowmack Company, he wished to concentrate his efforts on the more promising steam pump.
Patowmack and Canal
Lock 1 of the Patowmack Canal.
Officially known as the " Great Falls Skirting Canal ," the Patowmack Canal is an inoperative canal located in Virginia, United States, that was designed to bypass rapids in the Potomac River upstream of the present Washington, D. C. area.
Lock 2 of the Patowmack Canal
Swift currents, solid rock, and constant financial and labor problems hindered progress on the Patowmack Canal at Great Falls.
The new company abandoned the Patowmack Canal in 1830 for an even more ambitious undertaking: a man-made waterway stretching from Georgetown to Cumberland on the Maryland side of the river.
The preservation of the Patowmack Canal is part of the Park Service's continuing efforts to protect and preserve special resources of the park.
The Patowmack Canal and Matildaville ruins are protected by the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979.
The significance of the Patowmack Canal in the development of the young nation is evident in its designation as a National Historic Landmark.
The Patowmack Canal is a Civil Engineering Landmark, and a Virginia Historic Landmark.
The Patowmack Canal Trail is accessible by wheelchair as far as Lock 1.
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The Great Falls of the Potomac River are near the northern boundary of the park, as are the remains of the Patowmack Canal, the first canal in the United States that used locks to raise and lower boats.
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The greatest obstacle to the Patowmack project proved to be financial.
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