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Great Falls Tavern:
Life was very different around the Great Falls Tavern during the canal era. The building before you began as a small lockhouse and was added onto twice until it became what you see today. The area around the tavern bustled with a community of over 100 people, including a post office. Passenger boats left here taking tourists on a leisurely overnight trip to Harpers Ferry, 50 miles up the canal. After the great flood of 1889, the Great Falls Tavern became a private club until the National Park Service acquired it in 1938. |