Signature Collections

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

Collage of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Washington County, Maryland

About: Big Pool

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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low-lying area beside the river called Big Pool; Boat being pulled by mule and rider with rope on tow path

Big Pool

Downstream Big Pool stop gate with pedestrian on footbridge, pivot bridge at bottom

Big Pool - pivot bridge

Men and mules used to level and move dirt during the repairs at Big Pool

Big Pool - Repair men and mules 1

Men and mules used to level and move dirt during the repairs at Big Pool, pic 2

Big Pool - Repair men and mules 2

Boat at Big Pool with people walking along tow path; circa unknown

Big Pool at Ft. Frederick

Train bridge with loaded train crossing over bridge at Cherry Run, WV; circa unknown

Bridge over the C&O near Cherry Run

Ferry at Big Pool; group of 10 women cross with car on ferry, circa 1936

Ferry at Big Pool - Cherry Run

Image of postcard with text "United States Post Card" - Postage 1 cent, circa 1875

Green wood for sale (Lancelot Shank to Franklin Grove)

2 wooden buildings near canal, circa unknown - McCoys Ferry

McCoys Ferry