Upper Potomac River
This stretch encompasses the stretch of the Potomac River from the confluence of the North and South Branches to the beginning of tidewater, just below the Little Falls of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
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“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
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