Signature Collections

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

Collage of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Washington County, Maryland

About: Slaves and the canal

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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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

Screen capture of the "Narrative of James Curry, A Fugitive Slave"

Runaway slave uses canal tow path

Article in Genius of Liberty, Loudoun County, Va., 1830 - "Committed,"

Runaway working on C&O (?), 1830

Copy of cover page - "Along the Towpath"; Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Underground Railroad

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Underground Railroad