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Aqueduct Bridge (Potomac River)
The
Aqueduct Bridge
(also called the
Alexandria Aqueduct
) was a bridge between
Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
, and
Rosslyn, Virginia
. It was built to transport cargo-carrying boats on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
in Georgetown across the
Potomac River
to the
Alexandria Canal
. The same eight
piers
supported two different bridges: a wooden
canal bridge
(a wooden roadway bridge was added on top of the canal later) and an
iron
truss bridge
carrying a roadway and an
electric trolley
line. The bridge was closed in 1923 after the construction of the nearby
Key Bridge
. The shuttered Aqueduct Bridge was demolished in 1933.
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