Signature Collections
Chesapeake and Ohio (C & O) Canal in Washington County
About: The canal in the newspapers
Other topics within this collection:
Hancock, not just a "chicken town", 1854
Hands wanted, 1849
Heavy rain, freshet, 1852
Income and expenses of the Canal, 1856
Injury of colored man, 1853
Land for sale in Clearspring area along canal, 1856
Land slide at Paw Paw, 1854
Lockkeeper fired for voting for the American ticket, 1856
Low water at Dam 5, 1856
Mill & warehouse for sale along Canal, 1854
More Proscription, 1856
New President for the Canal, 1856
No coal being carried, 1856
Packet boats, 1851
Plans to repair canal at Dam 5 by April 1857 or let water into canal at Harper's Ferry, 1857
President of Canal elected, 1856
Rails, posts, warehouse, feed store for sale, 1856
Rain and Flood, 1886
Road notice at Lock 37, 1852
Sale of Canal Bonds, 1856
Sale of warehouse along canal, 1852
Sheriff's sale of Reynold's boat, 1855
Six canal boats, mules etc. for sale, Cumberland, 1855
Steam packets Williamsport to Washington, 1852
Superintendents not using icebreakers to allow longer use of canal, 1856
Terrible Disaster at Lynn's Wharf, 1864
The Canal (Aquedock), 1852
The Canal Board, 1856
The Canal Open- April 1856
The Canal to be repaired, 1886 (Dam 6)
The Canal Trade of Williamsport, 1852
The Flood at Home, 1889
The Old Ditch Booming, 1892
The oldest boatman, A. D. McCardell, 1893
The Prospects Ahead, 1851
Thick ice on canal, February 1865