Canal-boat Children by Ethel M. Springer
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Canal-boat Children.
By Ethel M. Springer
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Boat families on the C&O Canal (and the role of women and community)
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This study addresses to what degree family participation in canal boat operations was driven by economic necessity versus a desire to stay together as a family unit or to participate in that lifestyle. As a parallel focus, I look at how the canal structured the family and community life of the canallers and how this may have changed through time. My research centers on the period from 1870 to 1924, during a transition from independent to company boatmen, and focuses on one community—Sharpsburg, Maryland—where a large number of canallers resided during this period.
Archeological Overview and Assessment (Part 2)
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PART II:
HANCOCK TO CUMBERLAND MILEPOST 60.7 TO 184.5
Allegany County Historical Society Cumberland, Maryland
Cupler, Margaret D.
1971
Allegany County, Maryland 1800 Census. Baltimore: Maryland Genealogical
Society.
Lowdermilk, William Harrison
1971
History of Cumberland, (Maryland) from the Time of the Indian Town
Caiuctucuc, in 1728 to the Present Day. Reprint. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company.
Archeological Overview and Assessment (Part I)
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ARCHEOLOGICAL OVERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT
C&O CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
ANNOTATED LISTING OF
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
Prepared For:
National Capital Region National Park Service
Prepared By:
E. Madeleine Scheerer
URS Corporation
Florence, New Jersey
June 2002
Archeological Identification and Evaluation, Hancock to Cumberland (River & Mountain, War & Peace)
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RIVER AND MOUNTAIN,WAR AND PEACE
ARCHEOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION AND
EVALUATION STUDY OF
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
HANCOCK TO CUMBERLAND (MILE MARKERS 123 TO 184)
VOLUME I
Final Report
PREPARED FOR:
National Park Service
National Capital Region
1100 Ohio Drive, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20242
PREPARED BY:
John Bedell, Jason Shellenhamer, Charles Lee Decker, Stuart Fiedel
THE LOUIS BERGER GROUP, INC.
1250 23rd Street, NW
Archeological Identification & Evaluation, Sandy Hook-Hancock (Through the Great Valley & into the mountains beyond)
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THROUGH THE GREAT VALLEY AND INTO THE MOUNTAINS BEYOND
ARCHEOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION STUDY OF CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK SANDY HOOK TO HANCOCK (MILE MARKERS 59 TO 123)
VOLUME I
Final Report
PREPARED FOR:
National Park Service National Capital Region
1100 Ohio Drive, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20242
PREPARED BY:
John Befell, Charles Lee Decker, Stuart Fiedel, Jason Shellenhamer
Archeological Identification & Evaluation, Rock Creek-Sandy Hook (Cohongorooto: The Potomac Above the Falls)
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COHONGOROOTO:
THE POTOMAC ABOVE THE FALLS
ARCHEOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION STUDY OF CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK ROCK CREEK TO SANDY HOOK (MILE MARKERS O TO 59)
VOLUME I
Final Report
PREPARED FOR:
National Capital Region National Park Service
1100 Ohio Drive, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20242
PREPARED BY:
Stuart Fiedel, John Bedell, Charles LeeDecker
THE LOUIS BERGER GROUP, INC. 2300 N Street NW Washington, D.C. 20037
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Historic Resource Study (by Harlan Unrau)
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On January 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the bill creating the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. In the mid-1970s, National Park Service historian Harlan D. Unrau produced a major, handwritten, multi-volume study of the history, engineering, operation, maintenance, and other aspects of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. A rough, unedited typed version was produced in the early 1980s for general use by park staff.