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

Collage of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Washington County, Maryland

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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

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

Bridge over the C&O near Cherry Run

Handwritten letter on Bridges & Henderson letterhead, to Geo. Dittmeyer Esq., 1886

Bridges & Henderson, Hancock merchants

Mule bridle with blinkers attached to the cheek pieces and a loose ring snaffle bit with clip on reins.

Bridle

wooden bucket

Bucket

Brass bugle belonged to Robert Luther Hebb (1873 – 1936) of Sharpsburg

Bugle belonging to Robert L. Hebb

Hagerstown Daily Mail, 1936 - "BUILDINGS FLOATING IN RIVER; HANCOCK BRIDGE MAY GO OUT"

Buildings Floating, 1936

C&O Canal Dam 5, 1904; building on far side of dam

C&O Canal Dam 5

Image of Dam 6, June 20, 1904

C&O Canal Dam 6

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

Cover of C&O Flood Documents, 1828-1996

C&O Flood Documents, 1828-1996

downstream at Sandy Hook, train tracks run parallel to canal

Canal & tracks near Lock 32

Canal four miles above Harpers Ferry, 1904

Canal and river four miles above Harpers Ferry at upper lock.

Article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "The Canal Appointments."

Canal appointments, July 1856

two young children playing on boat wearing safety chains; mother looks on from wash tub and tin

Canal boat children

Scan of Canal Boat Ledger, 1878

Canal boat registers 1873, 1878

Picture of two empty, or “light”, boats coming up the canal

Canal boats

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1855 - "Canal Break -- Loss of Life."

Canal break at Williamsport, 1855

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1854 - "Canal Break."

Canal break caused by lock keeper, 1854

News article in Washington Herald, 1919 - "Williamsport" canal break

Canal break repaired, 1919

Canal boat from the era of the Canal Company, ? circa 1905

Canal Company boat, 1905

Dried up canal with boats still sitting in canal

Canal emptied, boats stranded

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1864 - "The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal."

Canal in "good order", coal going to northern cities, 1864

Canal in excellent order, 66 boats in a week, 1856

Article in The Alleganian, 1864 - "Chesapeake & Ohio Canal."

Canal injured by Confederates, August 1864.

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

Canal notes, 1840

Article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1872 "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Receipts."

Canal receipts 1872

Canal Scrip

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

Canal Scrip, 1835

Copy of an Order Issued by the Secretary of War, General McClellan, &c., 1862

Canal to remain open - General Order 44, 1862

crowd of people stand on the deck of the Canal Towage boat 67, tied up along the canal

Canal Towage 67

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1854 - "Canal Trade."

Canal trade from Williamsport, 1854

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1852 - "Canal Transportation from Williamsport."

Canal Transportation from Williamsport, 1852

Ad in Hagerstown Mail, 1838 - "TO FARMERS, MILLERS, AND OTHERS"

Canal warehouse ready, 1838

Cover of Canal-Boat Children by Ethel M. Springer

Canal-boat Children by Ethel M. Springer

Black family on canal boat; man sits near boat with 2 mules feeding at trough

Canallers

Close up view of Round Top Cement Mill along canal; Mill is several stories high

Cement Mill - close up

Cement Mill post operations, building abandon, wall of rock where bridge walkway once stood

Cement Mill - post operations

Round Top Cement Mill c. 1871. Smoke is coming from the limestone kilns, photo taken from across the canal

Cement Mill, 1871

Photo of Cement Mill ruins from a distance across canal, circa 1904

Cement Mill, 1904

Photo of cemetery headstone with writing, "John Adams"

Cemetery near Canal at Dargan

Photo of trees on hill in winter month; 2 people walking through debris near hill

Cemetery near Dargan

Canal boat in river with man steering boat at top

Census data for canal workers, 1850 to 1920

Charles Mill near canal. White building with loading dock near river bank

Charles Mill

This photograph shows the whole complex at Charles Mill, built along Camp Spring Run

Charles Mill complex

Charles Mills, 2 buildings located on canal, man standing on loading dock

Charles Mill loading docks

Cover page of Historic Resources Study; image of bridge in foreground;

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Historic Resource Study (by Harlan Unrau)

News article in Hagerstown Weekly Mail, 1874 - "Child Drowned."

Child drowned, 1874

Young boy on Canal boat wearing a safety harness

Child on canal boat

Image of canal boat, circa unknown

Clifford "Pete" Mose

News article in Harrisburg Telegraph, 1919 - "Coal Begins to Move on Maryland Canal"

Coal begins to move, 1919

Coal train at Cushwa Warehouse; circa unknown

Coal train at Cushwa Warehouse

Article in The Alleganian, 1864 - "Serious Accident."

Collapse of coal wharf, Cumberland, 1864

Boat in canal, coming through the aqueduct circa 1097?

Coming through the aqueduct