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Prentice, George Washington's Canal at Great Falls Virginia, Shepardstown, WV: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1976 Call No: F232. P8 H2 1976\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eHowlett, Lynn Doney, The Potowmack Canal: From Canal to Consitution, McLean, VA: The Virginia Canals and Navigation Society. Call No: F187. P8\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eHyde, Arnout and Ken Sullivan, The Potomac: A Nation's River, Charleston, WV: Cannon Graphics, 1994 Call No: F187 .P8 H92 1992 \u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eKapsch, Robert J., The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West, Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2007. Call No: F187. 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P8 Hyde, Arnout and Ken Sullivan, The Potomac: A Nation's River, Charleston, WV: Cannon Graphics, 1994 Call No: F187 .P8 H92 1992  Kapsch, Robert J., The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West, Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2007. Call No: F187. P8 K23 2007 Martin, Oliver, The Chesapeake and Potomac Country, The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, 1928 Call No: F187 .C5 M4 Metcalf, Paul, Waters of the Potowmack, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1982. Pickell, John, A New Chapter in the early life of George Washington, in connection with the narrative history of the Potomac Company, New York: D. Appleton, 1856 Call No: E312.29 .P59 Potomac American Reflections [audiovisual], Robert Cole Films, 1992 Call No: F187 .P8 P68 1992 Stanford, Homer Reed, The Historic Potomac— Beginning with 1740, Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940 Call No: F187. 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