Signature Collections

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

Collage of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Washington County, Maryland

About: Canal Company operations

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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Bill of sale from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company to Charles W. Adams, 1872

Antietam Division Order for Dry Goods 1872

C&O Canal Register, December 1907; part of left corner has been torn

C&O Canal Register, December 1907 (Register of Descending Boats.) - p1

C&O Canal Register, December 1907; part of upper right corner has been torn

C&O Canal Register, December 1907 (Register of Descending Boats) - p2

5 & 10 dollar promissory notes from C&O Canal, 1840

Canal notes, 1840

News article from Hagerstown Mail, 1835 - "Canal Scrip."

Canal Scrip, 1835

Ledger of Comparative Statement of Principal Articles of Commerce ( 1873-1874)

Comparative Statement of Principal Articles of Commerce ( 1873-1874)

Bill receipt from Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1872 for cribing at Gard Lock No. 4. $25.08

Cribing for Guard Lock 4, 1872

Bill receipt from Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1872 for $10

Culbertson, payment for lumber, 1872

Numerous boats in canal, multiple lines; circa unknown

Cushwa Basin

Dredge machine at Cushwa Basin

Dredge, Cushwa Basin

Ledger of General shipments for the year 1873 from Cumberland by Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

General shipments for the year 1873 from Cumberland (Coal shipments and by whom made)

Handwritten Invoice for Victor Cushwa,1883 from Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company

Invoice - Victor Cushwa,1883

Photo of letter from CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL COMPANY to National Park Service, 1938

Letter from Office of Receivers, 1938

Article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, August 27, 1851 - "To the Editors of the Herald and Torch:"

Letter to Editor from Superintendent re maintenance, 1851

List of Canal Company employees, 1938

List of Canal Company employees, 1938

Copy of Pay voucher to N. I. Burston [?] from the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company, 1868

Pay voucher 1868

Handwritten receipt from July 1830 for negro man Robert as an axeman

Payment for services of a negro man, 1829

Handwritten receipt from July 1830 for negro man Regin? as an axeman

Payment for services of negro, 1830

Points to which coal shipments were made, 1875

Purchase for canal boat, 1854 received by G. W. Frankland

Purchase for canal boat, 1854

Handwritten receipt from April 1893 F.R. Zimmerman, Lock Keeper 37

Receipt, 1893. Zimmerman, Lock 37

Store ledger, handwritten, from unknown time;

Store ledger - date unknown

Copy of Annual Report Statement, Chesapeake and Ohio canal company, 1848

Twentieth Annual Report, 1848; Page 25

Copy of Annual Report Statement, Chesapeake and Ohio canal company, 1848; pg 26

Twentieth Annual Report, 1848; Page 26

Scan copy of Way Bill from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1848

Way Bill for J. Wade, 1848

Ledger of Way Bills received by Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 1858 - No. 3

Way Bills May 1858 - Ascending (- Cumberland office) - No 3

Ledger of Way Bills received by Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 1858

Way Bills May 1858 - Ascending (- Cumberland office) - No 4