A view of the Castle Gatehouse from across the Washington Aqueduct.
Photo by: Bestbudbrian/Wikimedia | CC BY-SA 4.0
The castle was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), who in the early 1850s was charged with providing a clean water supply to the District of Columbia. The gatehouse to the Georgetown Reservoir was designed as a castle resembling the one in the insignia of the USACE.
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