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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

Photograph from Paul Jones ledge of lime stone, looking southeast; canal and Potomac river off to the right side

Potomac Refining Company prospectus, 1910

Canal and the wharf, and the bridge of Cumberland Valley Railroad on the line from Hagerstown to Martinsburg, circa 1910

Powell's Bend wharf (CVRR coal shipment)

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal." on new president of C&O Canal

President of Canal elected, 1856

Map of proposed route of Canal, 1826

Proposed route of Canal, 1826 (between Washington & Pittsburg)

Purchase for canal boat, 1854 received by G. W. Frankland

Purchase for canal boat, 1854

Ad in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "Rails and Posts for Sale!"

Rails, posts, warehouse, feed store for sale, 1856

News article in Herald Mail, 1886 - "Rain and Flood"

Rain and Flood, 1886

Handwritten receipt from April 1893 F.R. Zimmerman, Lock Keeper 37

Receipt, 1893. Zimmerman, Lock 37

Decayed canal boat marooned when the canal closed.

Remains of boat #58, 1958

Repairs being carried out on the wall of the Conococheague Aqueduct, circa 1920s?

Repairs to the Conococheague Aqueduct

Postcard drawing house with large fence, horses, horse w/buggy - text on bottom reads "'River View' - Residence of F.H. Darby Esq, Williamsport, Md."

Residence of F.H. Darby

Boat in canal, coming through workers are on both sides of canal

Resources consulted

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1852 - "Road Notice."

Road notice at Lock 37, 1852

Invoice to Cuswha from Bridges & Henderson, Manufacturers of "Round Top" Cement, 1882

Round Top Cement invoice, 1882

Ad in Herald of Freedom and Torch Light, 1863 - "Cement, Cement"

Round Top Cement, 1863

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

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1857 - "Sale of Canal Bonds."

Sale of Canal Bonds, 1856

Article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1852 - "TRUSTEE'S SALE."

Sale of McCoy's Ferry, 1852

News ad in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1853 - "Sale of Property."

Sale of warehouse along canal, 1852

Photograph of Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor

Article in New-York Illustrated News, 1861- "Scene on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Troops going up to join Gen. Banks' Command."

Scene on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (November 1861)

Sketch by Thomas Nast of boat in canal with mules pulling boat with rope and man with whip leading mules, 1861

Scene on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. (Troops going up to join Gen. Banks' command.)

looking across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia from Ferry Hill plantation on the Maryland side

Shepherdstown from Ferry Hill

Photograph of community around Potamac River looking at the bridge; Text written says "Shepherdstown, W.Va. from Kyd Douglas’ place in Maryland." Sept 21 1904. JLG

Shepherdstown, WV

News ad in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1855 - "Sheriff's Sale."

Sheriff's sale of Reynold's boat, 1855

Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct, a stone bridge with large arch; small walking bridge over the aqueduct

Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct

Ad in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1855 - "TRUSTEE'S SALE!"

Six canal boats, mules etc. for sale, Cumberland, 1855

Article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1861 - "THE SKIRMISH AT DAM NO. 5."

Skirmish at Dam 5, 1861 (Dam 5 damaged)

A snubbing post acts as a brake for boats locking through the canal with rope tied around it

Snubbing Post Rope

Snyders Landing is near Sharpsburg, Snyder Coal and Grain Warehouse at right of canal; canal boat passing through

Snyders Landing

Boat in canal, wharf here was known as Sharpsburg Landing before it took on the name Snyders Landing; family can be seen at back of canal boat

Snyders Landing aka Sharpsburg Landing

Group of pedestrians sitting on stairs for photo at Snyders Landing, c.1890

Snyders Landing, pedestrians

News ad in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1852 - "Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun."

Steam packets Williamsport to Washington, 1852

News article in Weekly Casket, 1849 "For the Casket, December 1, 1849."

Steamboat at Williamsport, 1849

Steam boat near wharf at Williamsport, circa late 1800s

Steamboat in Williamsport

Steffey and Findlay Company and the F. H. Darby and Sons Company were located on the berm side of the canal just upstream from Lock 44

Steffey and Findlay and F. H. Darby

Near the Steffey & Findlay Coal Company Wharf, a couple of men and a boy sitting on a loaded canal boat

Steffey Wharf 1910

Stop gate at Dam 4; boat in canal, stone covered bridge over canal with person standing on bridge

Stop gate

Store ledger, handwritten, from unknown time;

Store ledger - date unknown

Letter to editor in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal."

Superintendents not using icebreakers to allow longer use of canal, 1856

Canal family on boat; 1 man with 2 young girls circa 1910

Taking a turn at the tiller

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1864 - "Terrible Disaster."

Terrible Disaster at Lynn's Wharf, 1864

Article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1852 "The Canal."

The Canal (Aquedock), 1852

Canal boat in river in Western Maryland; photo taken by WCFL bookmobile, circa 1911-1923

The Canal and the bookmobile

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "The Canal Board."

The Canal Board, 1856

News article in Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 1856 - "The Canal Open."

The Canal Open- April 1856

Article in Hagerstown Mail, 1889 - "The Canal To Be Repaired."

The Canal to be repaired, 1886 (Dam 6)

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

The Canal Trade of Williamsport, 1852

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

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Underground Railroad

Cover page of The Community of Four Locks by Mike Mastrangelo

The Community of Four Locks

News article in Hagerstown Mail, 1889 - "The Flood At Home."

The Flood at Home, 1889

The Old Ditch Booming, 1892

News article in The Globe, 1893 - "An Old Boatman"

The oldest boatman, A. D. McCardell, 1893