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Longest running ferry in US at risk of closing after more than 200 years


Longest running ferry in US at risk of closing after more than 200 years
By:
Bo Evans
and last updated 2021-01-11 21:14:19-05
POOLESVILLE, Md. — “I work in Virginia, and have always worked in Virginia. The ferry has always been my way into Virginia,” said Karla Berger, a health care worker at a hospital in Virginia.
But she lives across the Potomac River, in Poolesville, Maryland.
The fastest way for her to get to work is White’s Ferry.
“It is a major transportation link,” said Kerri Cook, the president of the Poolesville Town Council.
“Somewhere between 600 and 800 cars a day,” said Cook. ....

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Last Potomac River ferry shuts down after more than 230 years of operation


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The historic White’s Ferry, the last remaining ferry service to travel between Virginia and Maryland across the Potomac River, announced on Monday that it would be ceasing operations.
DCist reported that the ferry service, which has operated since the late 1700s, was shutting down due to a centuries-long legal dispute regarding the landing site on the Virginia side of the river. The website reported that the conflict comes from the location of the landing site on Rockland Farm, which was given to the ferry in 1871, though the location was never appropriately marked on the map.
White’s Ferry regrets to inform the public that it will cease its Potomac River ferry operation between White’s Ferry Road in Montgomery County, Maryland and White’s Ferry Road in Loudoun County, Virginia effective immediately, the ferry service wrote on its Facebook page. The Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia has ruled, in the case of Rockland Farm, LLC, ....

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