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Waters of Potowmack / by Paul Metcalf.

Title
Waters of Potowmack / by Paul Metcalf.
Author
Metcalf, Paul C.
Publication
Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, c2002.

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Description
xix, 246 p. [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The Virginia Bookshelf
Uniform Title
Virginia bookshelf.
Subject
  • Potomac River > History
  • Potomac River Valley > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Originally published: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1982,
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / John Casey -- Imprimis -- Part One: Discovery and Indians -- (Geography) -- Early Settlement -- (Spruce Knob) -- Upriver Exploration -- (Estuary) -- Tidewater Colonial -- Turning Point: 1776 -- Part Two: Upriver Settlement -- (Geology) -- Federal City -- (Interdigitation) -- Transportation -- (Climate and Flow - Land Use) -- Civil War -- Part Three: Nineteen Sixties -- Notes and Bibliography.
ISBN
0813920426 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002190383
OCLC
49872745
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library