Signature Collections

Chesapeake and Ohio (C & O) Canal in Washington County

Collage of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Washington County, Maryland

About: Canal families at work

Other topics within this collection:

A brief history of the C&O Canal

Canal workers from 1850-1920 census

Possible canal workers' cemetery

Canal families at work

Boatmen and Lockkeepers

Canal Company operations

Business along the canal

Floods and canal repairs

Slaves and the canal

Canal during the Civil War

Canal artifacts

Resources consulted

The canal in the newspapers

National Park Service (NPS) resources

Canal terminology

Saving the Canal

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Canal family on boat, 2 females and young boy

At the tiller

Children diving off of canal boat, circa 1910

Boys diving off canal boat

two young children playing on boat wearing safety chains; mother looks on from wash tub and tin

Canal boat children

Young boy on Canal boat wearing a safety harness

Child on canal boat

8 people in row boat, 1 person standing; Taylor family at Lock 49

Four Locks Family

Two boys sit on boat in a lock, waiting to head downstream circa 1920s

In the lock

Consolidated Coal Co No. 14 Canal boat with woman standing on boat; circa 1920

Near Hancock

Photograph of Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor

Canal family on boat; 1 man with 2 young girls circa 1910

Taking a turn at the tiller

Photograph of Thomas Donegan, Ann Gotner, and Anna Kent resting on a beam

Thomas Donegan at Lock 56

Woman stands on parked canal boat; 2 men walking on platform

Woman on boat