# Down The Old Potomac 1917

Follows a week-long, 180-mile trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal through the Potomac Valley from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C. Includes scenes of the locks in operation; a mile-long, hand-dug tunnel which was built in 1840; coal barges plying the canal; Maryland farming country; Harper's Ferry; and Great Falls. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1917
- Runtime: 11 min
- By: travelfilmarchive
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Down_The_Old_Potomac_1917.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: travelfilmarchive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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