Last updated: March 13, 2024
Place
Information Panel: People and the Potomac
Photo: NPS / Claire Hassler
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Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits
The Potomac River is the second largest watershed feeding the Chesapeake Bay. Early peoples depended on the river for food and made their homes along its banks. European settlers saw the river as a source for transportation, expansion, and settlement.
We still rely on the river in important ways. Most of the people in the Washington, D.C. area depend on the Potomac River as a source of their drinking water. Millions more see the river as a place to recreate- a place to escape from busy lives.
What is YOUR relationship to the river?
We still rely on the river in important ways. Most of the people in the Washington, D.C. area depend on the Potomac River as a source of their drinking water. Millions more see the river as a place to recreate- a place to escape from busy lives.
What is YOUR relationship to the river?