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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GFAVAC_181219_010.JPG: Welcome to Great Falls Park!
2. GFAVAC_181219_013.JPG: Roaring Waters The Power of the Potomac
3. GFAVAC_181219_023.JPG: Water Cuts Deep
4. GFAVAC_181219_028.JPG: The Continent Drops Off Here
5. GFAVAC_181219_031.JPG: We Know Where It's Been
6. GFAVAC_181219_043.JPG: The Power of the Potomac Flooded with Variety
7. GFAVAC_181219_046.JPG: More than meets the eye
8. GFAVAC_181219_048.JPG: "The gorge's different habitats..."
9. GFAVAC_181219_057.JPG: Human History
10. GFAVAC_181219_060.JPG: New Rules on the River European Contact
11. GFAVAC_181219_064.JPG: "Indians in Body Paint"
12. GFAVAC_181219_066.JPG: "Group of Indians Round a Fire"
13. GFAVAC_181219_068.JPG: "Indian Priest"
14. GFAVAC_181219_070.JPG: "Old Indian Man"
15. GFAVAC_181219_073.JPG: "Indians Dancing Around a Circle of Posts"
16. GFAVAC_181219_076.JPG: "Indian Woman"
17. GFAVAC_181219_083.JPG: Powhatan Rules the Rivers The English Arrive
18. GFAVAC_181219_085.JPG: The English Take the Land The Rivers Shape English Settlement
19. GFAVAC_181219_089.JPG: Riverside Lands Reserved for American Indians
20. GFAVAC_181219_091.JPG: The Power of the Potomac First Peoples of the Potomac
21. GFAVAC_181219_095.JPG: Ancient Messages
22. GFAVAC_181219_103.JPG: Fishing & Hunting
23. GFAVAC_181219_105.JPG: Travel & Trade
24. GFAVAC_181219_108.JPG: Farming
25. GFAVAC_181219_111.JPG: Ties to the Landscape
26. GFAVAC_181219_114.JPG: Paleo-Indian Period 13,000 BCE - 7,900 BCE Archaic Period 8,000 BCE - 1,000 BCE Woodland Period 1,000 BCE - 1,500 CE
27. GFAVAC_181219_120.JPG: The Power of the Potomac A Canal West
28. GFAVAC_181219_125.JPG: Visions of the West George Washington
29. GFAVAC_181219_128.JPG: Early Canal Planning
30. GFAVAC_181219_131.JPG: Patowmack Company Mount Vernon Compact: From Canal to Constitution
31. GFAVAC_181219_134.JPG: Building the Canal
32. GFAVAC_181219_137.JPG: Building the Canal
33. GFAVAC_181219_139.JPG: The Engineers
34. GFAVAC_181219_141.JPG: Making the Cut at Great Falls Locks and Gates Blasting Through Rock
35. GFAVAC_181219_144.JPG: Journey on the Canal Tobacco, Flour, Whiskey & Iron Matildaville A Financial Failure
36. GFAVAC_181219_147.JPG: Journey on the Canal
37. GFAVAC_181219_149.JPG: Tobacco, Flour, Whiskey & Iron
38. GFAVAC_181219_152.JPG: Matildaville A Financial Failure
39. GFAVAC_181219_154.JPG: Working & Living on the Canal
40. GFAVAC_181219_157.JPG: Gate from Lock #1
41. GFAVAC_181219_162.JPG: Artifacts from Matildaville
42. GFAVAC_181219_164.JPG: The symbol carved into this stone identifies the mason who cut it for the canal.
43. GFAVAC_181219_166.JPG: Iron funnels, like this one excavated at Great Galls, were probably forged in Matildaville.
44. GFAVAC_181219_169.JPG: This heavy swage block found at Great Falls was probably used to shape iron into items used on the canal.
45. GFAVAC_181219_176.JPG: The Power of the Potomac Destination Great Falls
46. GFAVAC_181219_178.JPG: A Trolley to Great Falls
47. GFAVAC_181219_179.JPG: Carousel Finial
48. GFAVAC_181219_185.JPG: Terminal Station at Great Falls Park
49. GFAVAC_181219_188.JPG: Terminal Station at Great Falls Park
50. GFAVAC_181219_197.JPG: In the early 1900s
51. GFAVAC_181219_199.JPG: Electric Trolley Interior
52. GFAVAC_181219_201.JPG: "The Niagara of the South" A Day in the Park
53. GFAVAC_181219_204.JPG: Dining on the Veranda
54. GFAVAC_181219_206.JPG: Dancing in the Pavilion
55. GFAVAC_181219_208.JPG: Gazing from the Observation Tower
56. GFAVAC_181219_210.JPG: Riding on the Carousel
57. GFAVAC_181219_217.JPG: Through the Years A Day at Great Falls
58. GFAVAC_181219_221.JPG: Canoeists on the Potomac River, circa 1927
59. GFAVAC_181219_222.JPG: A group of hikers at Great Falls, 1914
60. GFAVAC_181219_224.JPG: Two women on the rocks overlooking the Great Falls on the Potomac, circa 1920
61. GFAVAC_181219_226.JPG: The park underwater during the 1936 flood
62. GFAVAC_181219_228.JPG: A privately owned bridge allowed people to get a better view of the falls, circa 1920
63. GFAVAC_181219_230.JPG: A woman observes the Potomac Gorge in 1928
64. GFAVAC_181219_232.JPG: Men observe the falls in 1864
65. GFAVAC_181219_235.JPG: Choosing a Path
66. GFAVAC_181219_242.JPG: Taking Chances on the Potomac
67. GFAVAC_181219_247.JPG: Riding the Power of the Potomac
68. GFAVAC_181219_252.JPG: On the Edge of the Potomac
69. GFAVAC_181219_263.JPG: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
70. GFAVAC_181219_270.JPG: Boats Cargo and Navigation
71. GFAVAC_181219_273.JPG: Potomac River Dugout (Circa 1775-1802)
72. GFAVAC_181219_277.JPG: The Patowmack Canal Company
73. GFAVAC_181219_282.JPG: Canal Locks
74. GFAVAC_181219_283.JPG: From Canal to Constitution
75. GFAVAC_181219_291.JPG: Canal Locks
76. GFAVAC_181219_303.JPG: Canal Gates
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