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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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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

Workers, beams and brick wall during Lock 33 reconstruction, circa 1930s

Lock 33 - reconstruction photo 1

Lock 33 reconstruction, concrete wall on both sides with scaffolding in middle and workers throughout

Lock 33 - reconstruction photo 2

Lock 33 reconstruction, water spewing out while workers seen on machine controlling water flow, circa 1930s

Lock 33 - reconstruction photo 3

Lock 33 with a railroad bridge in background

Lock 33, across from Harpers Ferry

Lockhouse at Lock 38; house on the left side of canal

Lock 38 (near Shepherdstown)

Lock 38 area; 2 story home in front of canal

Lock 38 Area

Lock 38 area, bridge missing from flood; train bridge in background

Lock 38 by G.D. Bast

2 flooded homes about 30 feet away from each other; Potomac River and C&O Canal, circa 1924?

Lock 38 during 1924 flood

The flood of 1924, onlookers watching the flooded Potomac River at Lock 38

Lock 38 during the flood of 1924

Consolidated Coal Co No. 3 Canal boat with family and multiple people standing around; circa 1902

Lock 39 and Jacob Mose

House with stream near, boat in stream. Text written on photo "Lock #44, Lock-Tenders-Wife + Family Harvey Brant 1914"

Lock 44

Loaded canal boat at the Williamsport Lock (Lock 44); building near lock with several men about in the area

Lock 44 (Williamsport)

Lock 44 after 1889 Flood, homes destroyed in background and debris in canal

Lock 44 after the 1889 flood

Lock 47 and Drydock, 3 men stand in the dry area

Lock 47 and Drydock

Family of Sam Taylor, lockkeeper and resident at lock 49 from 1889-1924.

Lock 49

Lockhouse between the towpath and the river; railroad bridge runs behind house

Lockhouse at Lock 38

Lockhouse at Lock 49 sets up on hill with picket fence

Lockhouse at Lock 49

Lockhouse, Guard Lock 5; house sets up on top of a hill with fence and brick wall

Lockhouse, Guard Lock 5

Editorial in Herald of Freedom and Torch Light, 1856 - "For the Herald and Torch."

Lockkeeper fired for voting for the American ticket, 1856

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal." about lower water at Dam 5

Low water at Dam 5, 1856

Cover page of C&O Canal; The Making of a Park; sketch image of brick around canal with a house in the background

Making of a park - Part 1

Cover page of C&O Canal; The Making of a Park; sketch image of brick around canal with a house in the background

Making of a park - Part 2

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

2 wooden buildings near canal, circa unknown - McCoys Ferry

McCoys Ferry

Ad in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1854 - 'Mill and Warehouse for Sale!"

Mill & warehouse for sale along Canal, 1854

Training heading north, canal boat heading south pass each other

Millers Bend above Weverton

News article "More Proscription", 1856

More Proscription, 1856

Lock 37; house and storage sheds off in the distance beside canal lock

Mountain Lock Area

Woman standing on deck of canal boat with a hat on

Mountain Lock Area, 1920

Group of people standing on the mule crossover bridge

Mule Bridge

laden canal boat makes its way downstream, family on boat

Near 2 Locks

Section of Canal near Dam 4 across the Potomac

Near Dam 4

Consolidated Coal Co No. 14 Canal boat with woman standing on boat; circa 1920

Near Hancock

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "President of the Canal."

New President for the Canal, 1856

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "Canal Affairs." about no loads of Coal

No coal being carried, 1856

Article in Hagerstown Daily Mail, 1900 - "Noah Nally Drowned"

Noah Nally Drowned, 1900

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

Norfolk & Western Railroad Bridge (at Shepherdstown)

Unique tin oil lamp, circa unknown

Oil lamp

Canal boat and tow path

Other online resources

Ad in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1851 - "The Packet Boats"

Packet boats, 1851

Pass for J. A. Wade and Team from Headquarters Department of Washington, 1865

Pass, April 1865

Parked passenger boat in river; 2 men at front of the boat

Passenger boat

Sketch by Theodore R. Davis, Harper's Weekly, 1862 of troops passing under the Canal at Hancock

Passing under the canal to the ford

Copy of Pay voucher to N. I. Burston [?] from the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company, 1868

Pay voucher 1868

A paymaster's boat rises in a lock, 2 men with ropes tying the boat up

Paymaster boat

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

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1857 - "The Canal." about repairs to canal

Plans to repair canal at Dam 5 by April 1857 or let water into canal at Harper's Ferry, 1857

Points to which coal shipments were made, 1875

Illustrated Map from 1877, title of "Sandy Hook"

Possible canal worker cemetery

Letter typed on Potomac Refining Company letterhead to Mr. S. A. Schennacher, April 12, 1911 from M.P. Kehoe, President

Potomac Refining Company - correspondence to potential shared holder, 1911

2 story Building along canal with canal boat outside; text reads "Potomac Refining Co. Four mile level above Harpers Ferry"

Potomac Refining Company (Manganese Mine)