| Name | Classification | Age | Years of service | Monthly rate |
| Section I | Georgetown DC | Seneca | ||
| S.S. Cornell | Supervisor | 59 | 30 | 50.00 |
| S. Pennifield | Asst. |
OFFICE OF RECEIVERS
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL COMPANY
G. L. NICOLSON
GENERAL MANAGER
WASHINGTON. D. C.
October 4, 1938.
Mr. Arno B. Cammerer
Director, National Park Service
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Cammerer:
Throughout operating years of the canal free black canallers worked the boats. In the 1850’s the company formally approved a measure that prohibited black men from owning or running their own boats. However by 1878 four black boat captains were entered in the boat registry of the C&O Canal. Henry and Louisa Williams along with Andy Jenkins are pictured here with their mules travelling down to Georgetown.
Famous Canal Boatman Sick
Had Charge Of Boat "Round Top”
Which Hauled Cement To Nation’s Capital
The man holding the mules has been identified as Jacob Mose. Mr Mose from Sharpsburg was a Private in the Potomac Home Brigade during the Civil War. He was 84 when he died in 1922.
According to Carolyn Amsley, his great grand-daughter, his children are next to the boat, Rama Blanche, Harry and George.
The boat is in Lock 39, near Sharpsburg. The crew are at the front of the boat, but the passengers are unknown.
Tom Moore was the locktender at Lock 37 - Mountain Lock.
Behind him is a lock shanty, a small buildings usually built on the island between the lock and the bypass flume at the upstream end. Such buildings would normally contain basic furnishing for the comfort of the lockkeeper, such as a chair, cot, and stove. They provided shelter from the weather and a place for the lockkeeper to rest when on duty. As the canal operated 24-hours a day, they often were virtually home to the lockkeeper during times when the canal was busy.
Dan Sterling was the Lockkeeper at the lock at Dam 5 in the early 1900s.
He and his wife stand by the lower lock gates.
Lock 44 locktender and family - Harvey Brant
Harvey Brandt tended Lock 44 at Williamsport from 1916 to 1924 when the canal closed. He and his wife continued to live in the lock house until 1961. He was paid $22.50 per month to tend lock twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and rented out canoes to tourists to subsidize his income (Craig Williams. "Canal lock tender remembers busy days". Morning Herald, 9-26-1985).
Locktender Goes Down to Death in Chaney's Lock.
His Hat Found By His Wife
Floating on the Water-Body is Recovered- Believed to Have Been An Accident.
Noah R. Nally, locktender at Lock #43, known as Chaney's Lock on the C. & O. Canal, below Williamsport, was drowned in the lock between 5 & 6 o'clock Monday evening. His body was recovered later in the canal about fifty feet below the lower lock.
During times of low water, canal boats would choke the prism waiting for the water levels to rise so they could resume their trips either up or downstream. This summer shot of canal boats in an empty canal bed could have been the result of drought or possibly the canal bed had been drained for repairs. Mule feeding troughs can be seen dotting the towpath with people walking in the background.