Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is a river in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is situated nearby to the village Glen Echo, as well as near the neighborhood Fairway Hills.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Central Intelligence Agency and Kryptos.

Central Intelligence Agency

Military installation

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building and the New Headquarters Building and sits on a total of 258 acres of land.

Kryptos

Work of art

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.

Lock 8

River

Photo: Bonnachoven, CC0.

Lock 8 is a river.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include McLean and Bethesda.

McLean

Photo: Beltway Photos, CC BY 2.0.

McLean is a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. located in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the southern United States of America.

Bethesda

Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.

Bethesda is in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1½ miles northwest of Washington, D.C. Wealthy and well-educated, Bethesda is best known for its numerous restaurants and as the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health.

Far North

Photo: Nicolet1327, CC0.

The far northern region of Arlington is mainly an upscale residential area, similar to McLean which borders it to the north. Still, there are some points of interest here.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Type: River
Category: body of water
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.9678° or 38° 58′ 4″ north

Longitude

-77.1498° or 77° 8′ 59″ west

Open location code

87C4XV92+43

OpenStreetMap ID

way 74844850

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=river

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Localities in the Area

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