Last updated: June 14, 2023
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Waterfront Park: Stone marker, south
NPS / Claire Hassler
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Located along the north edge of the Potomac River at the east end of the Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, DC is the Waterfront Park: Stone marker.
The Stone marker consists of two shiny, black granite slabs, set on the ground and raised up about one foot from their back sides. The left slab is in the shape of a triangle. It features an etching in the left corner of a sailboat, approaching the viewer as it floats under a current of calm, etched wavy, horizontal lines. The center of the slab features an image of a Native American man standing at the front end of a canoe and rowing right to left down the river. Two people sit behind him and a fourth person stands and rows from the back of the canoe.
The right granite slab is also raised from the backside and has a rectangular shape. A gray granite slab bench runs ten feet along the right and fifteen feet along back side of the formation. A large etching is on the top half of the slab, about nine feet across. It features an image of old sail ships docked along the riverside in front of a row of buildings. A series of wavy line etchings separate this image from three smaller ones below, each about three by two inches. The faded left image appears to be a map of Washington, DC and the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers at its south end. The middle image is poorly faded, and only appears as light gray on the top half and darker gray below. The third image is also badly faded. Georgetown is visible written in the lower left corner, and a sketch of a two-story house in the lower right that is labeled Dumbarton House.
The Stone marker consists of two shiny, black granite slabs, set on the ground and raised up about one foot from their back sides. The left slab is in the shape of a triangle. It features an etching in the left corner of a sailboat, approaching the viewer as it floats under a current of calm, etched wavy, horizontal lines. The center of the slab features an image of a Native American man standing at the front end of a canoe and rowing right to left down the river. Two people sit behind him and a fourth person stands and rows from the back of the canoe.
The right granite slab is also raised from the backside and has a rectangular shape. A gray granite slab bench runs ten feet along the right and fifteen feet along back side of the formation. A large etching is on the top half of the slab, about nine feet across. It features an image of old sail ships docked along the riverside in front of a row of buildings. A series of wavy line etchings separate this image from three smaller ones below, each about three by two inches. The faded left image appears to be a map of Washington, DC and the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers at its south end. The middle image is poorly faded, and only appears as light gray on the top half and darker gray below. The third image is also badly faded. Georgetown is visible written in the lower left corner, and a sketch of a two-story house in the lower right that is labeled Dumbarton House.