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

Collage of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Washington County, Maryland

About: Oral history

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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Image of canal boat, circa unknown

Clifford "Pete" Mose

Family of 3 (woman and 2 young children) on canal boat

Interview - Clara Manning (introduction)

Canal boat traveling down canal

James Eaton

Photo of canal boat in river; text written "Parkhead 993"

James Eaton - canal boats

B&W photo of mules grazing in a field

James Eaton - mules

Image of canal with a boat off in the distance

James Eaton interview 2 (Life on the canal)

Family on canal boat; clothes hanging on clothe line

Mary Schroeder - children, Four Locks

Family of 4 (1 man and 3 children) on top of Canal Boat

Mary Schroeder - introduction

Man standing, holding reigns on 2 mules

Mary Schroeder - winters, mules and maintenance

Multiple Canal boats docked by river; Text "100.9 Canal Boats Potomac River"

Tom Little - business along the Canal

Little Country store with horse outside and people standing near front entrance

Tom Little - Introduction