Paw Paw Tunnel
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title:
Paw Paw Tunnel
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The Paw Paw Tunnel is a 3,118-foot-long (950 m) canal tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) in Allegany County, Maryland. Located near Paw Paw, West Virginia, it was built to bypass the Paw Paw Bends, a six-mile (9.7 km) stretch of the Potomac River containing five horseshoe-shaped bends. The town, the bends, and the tunnel take their name from the pawpaw trees that grow prolifically along nearby ridges. Built using more than six million bricks, the tunnel has been described as "the grea
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Tunnel in Allegany County, Maryland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw_Paw_Tunnel
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date modified:
2023-06-22T04:10:50Z
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