Signature Collections

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

Collage of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Washington County, Maryland

About: Shepherdstown

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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Shawnee Canoe club, the three members are traversing the slope from the towpath to the river below

A canoe at Shepherdstown

Ferry that operated between Shepherdstown and Bridgeport ; horse and wagon with family, one holding an umbrella, circa unknown

Blackfords Ferry

Ferry that operated between Shepherdstown and Bridgeport; circa 1920s car on Ferry

Blackfords Ferry at Shepherdstown

Boteler’s Mill dam was made of wooden cribs filled with rubble stones and covered with planks, circa 1890

Botelers Mill

Norfolk & Western Railroad Bridge with canal in foreground, circa 1920s

Norfolk & Western Railroad Bridge (at Shepherdstown)

looking across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia from Ferry Hill plantation on the Maryland side

Shepherdstown from Ferry Hill

Photograph of community around Potamac River looking at the bridge; Text written says "Shepherdstown, W.Va. from Kyd Douglas’ place in Maryland." Sept 21 1904. JLG

Shepherdstown, WV

Picture is of the third toll bridge built from the Maryland town of Bridgeport to Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Toll bridge at Shepherdstown