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From the time of the Revolution, Virginians had considered canal systems that would bypass the fall lines of the James and Potomac rivers and link the eastern Tidewater with the western part of the state, perhaps as far as the Ohio River. The James River Company, chartered by the assembly in 1785 at George Washington’s urging, achieved a bypass of Richmond a decade later and improved the James for shallow-drafted bateaux westward to Lynchburg. The Potomac River Company accomplished a similar feat by
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