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09/15/2024

Our great group enjoyed a day of shopping at Tanget Outlets, dinner at the newly rebuilt Hershey Farm Resort, and a show at Sight and Sound Theater. Travel to Lancaster County, PA with Potomac Tours!

08/27/2024

14 years ago today, we picked up our first motorcoach and Potomac Tours began! This was the original "Sir Nicholas," coach 717. It has been a ride and with God's grace and mercy, we will continue to press on. Thank you to all of our great clients and partners!

08/21/2024

"Lady Nancy" loading up after Sunday service in Florence, SC. Our great group has chosen Potomac Tours for their annual trip since 2011. We truly appreciate their trust and consideration.

08/11/2024

"Lady Nancy" loading to head to Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, PA with a great group!

07/09/2024

"Lady Nancy" took an early morning ride to Chesapeake, VA with a corporate group for a conference. Choose Potomac Tours for your transportation needs!

07/04/2024

Our great senior group enjoyed a day trip to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC with Potomac Tours!

07/03/2024

Now that the 2023/2024 student educational tour season has come to an end, we would like to thank our great clients and tour company partners for a successful season! Students from all over the country traveled with us to learn the history of our country and to enjoy visiting historical sites. We would like to recognize our great group from Oregon and Washington who wrestled the title of "Cleanest coach of the season" from our great group from Missouri. Not one piece of trash left on the coach after 6 days! 🤯

We pray that everyone has an enjoyable and unforgettable experience! We eagerly await the arrival of our 2024/2025 school year groups and spending time with our teacher/chaperone friends again. Thank you all for choosing Potomac Tours, if truly means a lot.

07/03/2024

On July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Station in Washington, D.C. The assassin Guiteau was unhappy with the President because he was under the illusion that he deserved an ambassadorship to Vienna for supporting Garfield in the previous election. At the train station, Guiteau walked up to President Garfield - who was about to board a train to travel to visit his sick wife - and shot him in the arm and the back. The shooter was quickly captured. Others rushed to aid the President.

Instead of letting the wound heal with the bullet left in the body, the President’s doctor kept widening the wound with unwashed hands to remove the bullet. This led to the infection that killed Garfield. Garfield was only president for 120 days before he was shot on July 2 and died more than two months later on September 19, 1881. Guiteau's temporary insanity defense did not sway the jury and he was executed by hanging. The approximate location of the shooting is near two wayside panels along the National Mall across Madison Drive from the National Gallery of Art. Learn more about President Garfield at James A. Garfield National Historic Site.

07/01/2024

The Historic Triangle of Virginia finished the tour for our great student group from Oregon and Washington. They toured Jamestown Settlement, Colonial Williamsburg and The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

06/29/2024

Our great student group from Oregon and Washington visited President Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello in Charlottesville, VA.

06/28/2024

The Oregonians and Washingtonians toured Arlington National Cemetery. They also participated in an Army Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

06/27/2024

Our great student group from Oregon and Washington toured the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian while in Washington, DC.

06/26/2024

Our great student group from Oregon and Washington visited Ford's Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865. They also walked through Peteren House, where he died at 7:22 am, April 15, 1865. They learned the story of the conspiracy to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, which ultimately led to his assassination while touring Washington, DC with Tours! Come with us to learn this and more!

06/25/2024

In the last days of World War II, the United States and Soviet Union moved onto the Korean peninsula and began to remove the Japanese forces who had occupied Korea for decades. A negotiation with little Korean input divided the land along the 38th parallel into North and South, each under the influence of a Superpower. Koreans on both sides sought to reunify the country and prepared for war. On June 25, 1950, North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.

North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung believed that with Chinese and Soviet aide he would be able to overrun South Korea. After only two days of fighting the capital city of Seoul fell. By the end of July, the South Korean forces - supported by a slowly increasing number of American troops - were forced into a small pocket in the southwest corner of the country. This “Pusan Perimeter” was where South Korea would either stand or fall.

In the three years that followed, United States and United Nations forces fought for South Korea while the Chinese Army entered the war on the side of the North. Back and forth campaigns raged across the peninsula, devastating the land and people. In 1953, an armistice ended combat along a border similar to the prewar line.

More than 1.7 million Americans fought in the Korean War. More than 36,000 died. In their honor, the Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in 1995. Featuring 19 stainless steel statues and a mural wall of etched photos representing support personnel, the memorial offers a powerful experience to all who visit.

Photo by National Park Service.

06/25/2024

Our great group from Oregon and Washington visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture while touring Washington, DC with Potomac Tours!

06/24/2024

Our great group from Oregon and Washington toured the Holocaust Memorial Museum while in Washington, DC.

06/23/2024

Our great group from Oregon and Washington enjoyed a day of touring Washington, DC. Although the DC area experienced the hottest day recorded, they took on the heat and enjoyed seeing Memorials downtown.

06/22/2024

Our great student group from Oregon and Washington arrived on red-eye flights, toured Washington, DC, and checked in to rest to continue the next day.

06/20/2024

"Lady Nancy" passed a Federal Department of Transportation (DOT) level 1 inspection. Safety and operating legally are very important to us. We take the trust of our clients very seriously and work hard to ensure safe, reliable, and experienced transportation. Choose Potomac Tours for your next group trip!

06/19/2024

Happy Juneteenth! On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved people in Texas were free. Although President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation only freed enslaved people in states that had joined the Confederacy and slavery in the United States was not fully abolished until the 13th Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865, General Granger's announcement was still a powerful message felt throughout Texas and the other southern states. Juneteenth – a name combining June and nineteenth - was celebrated by freedmen in Texas as an annual event beginning in 1866.

In the following decades, Juneteenth commemorations spread across the country as African Americans migrated from Texas to other states. Juneteenth parades were often led by men who had served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War. Those proud veterans represented a group that fought in every major campaign and battle during the last two years of the war, earning 25 Medals of Honor. Lincoln recognized their contributions, saying “Without the military help of the black freedmen, the war against the South could not have been won.” We honor them on Juneteenth and every day at the African American Civil War Memorial.

Photo by National Park Service.

06/19/2024

"Lady Nancy" received a big video upgrade!

06/18/2024

06/17/2024

Our great group enjoyed "Beauty and the Beast" at Toby's Dinner Theater. They look good!

06/16/2024

Our great group from Minnesota toured Arlington National Cemetery and participated in an Army Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Later, they showed Albert Einstein love and took a group picture.

06/15/2024

Our great group from Minnesota visited the Navy Memorial and took a group photo at the White House while touring Washington, DC with Potomac Tours!

06/14/2024

Our great group from Minnesota has arrived and the first stop is the Gettysburg National Battlefield Park in Gettysburg, PA. They visited the Minnesota Monument on the battlefield and climbed one of the observation towers for a great view of the battlefield. This school has traveled with Potomac Tours since 2016 and we look forward to hosting their graduated 8th graders each year.

06/13/2024

Our great group from Illinois enjoyed a visit to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts on the last day of their 8th grade trip. From here they were safely shipped home via airmail.

06/12/2024

We are proud to announce the start of our sister company, Potomac Diversified Transport! For those that may be interested in trucks, please follow our social media pages (Facebook and Instagram)! Potomac Tours will not be affected and we look for to a bright future for both companies!

Potomac Diversified Transport

06/12/2024

Next time you visit the Jefferson Memorial, take a look up at the sculpture in the pediment above the entrance. The triangular design holds a carving of five men, commonly called the “Committee of Five.” On this date in 1776, the Second Continental Congress picked those five men to draft the Declaration of Independence.

A few days before, a resolution was put forward that “all political connections is, and ought to be, dissolved” between the Colonies and Great Britain. Just in case that resolution passed, the Committee was tasked with writing the official announcement. The five men were Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York.
The already swamped Adams told Jefferson, “You can write ten times better than I can” and placed him in the role of primary author. Franklin and Adams supported him by reviewing and editing the document before it was presented to the Congress. While the other two members did not play a large role in the writing process, Sherman is the only founder to have signed all four of America’s original great state papers and Livingston helped convince New York to vote for Independence, and later helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

As we approach Independence Day, we hope you’ll visit the Jefferson Memorial and give a wave to the Committee of Five.

Photo by National Park Service.

06/10/2024

Our great group of students and parents toured Arlington National Cemetery while on their 8th grade trip with Potomac Tours!