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Does this title have a typo? Potomac Company? Rmhermen 23:55, Dec 22, 2003 (UTC)

Potowmac Compony was the original spelling. google "Potowmac" User:20.4.32.203

When I do google, I find:

• "Potowmac Company" - 3 pages
• "Potowmack Company" - 25 pages
• "Potomac Company canal" - 182 pages including Encarta, National Park Service, Maryland Historical Trust, etc.

I don't claim to know the original spelling but it would seem that Potomac is the most common spelling. Rmhermen 18:24, Jan 20, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Useful links

• Bellows Falls Canal
• James Rumsey Historical Marker Database
• Seneca Quarry National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form
• Timeline 1769-1785. National Conservation Training Center. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
• Timeline 1809-1896. National Conservation Training Center. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
• Bedini, Silvio A. (July-August 1999), History Corner: The Kings of Washington: Cartographers and Surveyors 1796-1818, Part 2, vol. 19, Professional Surveyor Magazine, <http://www.profsurv.com/archive.php?issue=33&article=468> 
• Homansa, Isaac Smith & Dana, William B. (1849), The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Freeman Hunt, pp. 481-483, <http://books.google.com/books?id=A48EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA482&lpg=PA482&dq=%22the+potomac+company%22&source=web&ots=pM0auiso4B&sig=97krReBPgMOgv22i1l-9r6LQu3c&hl=en> 
• Hulbert, Archer B., The Paths of Inland Commerce, A Chronicle of Trail, Road, Fullbooks.com, <http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Paths-of-Inland-Commerce-A-Chronicle-of1.html>. Retrieved on 29 February 2008 
• Way, Peter (1993), Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860, Cambridge University Press, pp. 37-39, <http://books.google.com/books?id=YBJyS4ONR2AC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=%22the+potomac+company%22&source=web&ots=LZbSFKyQ9i&sig=Of-rtcOOLfjvmA4EefYDelbbGqg&hl=en> 
• Whitford, Noble E. (1905), History of the Canal System of the State of New York, <http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/bib/whitford/1906/Chap01.html>. Retrieved on 29 February 2008 
• Williams, T. J. C. (1979), History of Frederick County, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., pp. 234-235, ISBN 0806380128, <http://books.google.com/books?id=2ud-8Kr70DAC&pg=PA234-IA2&lpg=PA234-IA2&dq=%22the+potomac+company%22&source=web&ots=1vT1rPONuo&sig=cUVvcf34iRpmtiDB9pAb5VVLP7g&hl=en> 

Tedickey (talk) 14:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)