Apples
There has been a great demand for apples this season, and, consequently large quantities of them have been purchased, and will be transported to Georgetown as soon as the Canal opens. — Fifty cents per bushel is readily paid for them.
Taken from Williamsport side of hill, looking at Fenton Ave and N. Conococheague St - Byron Tannery - 1936 flood.
The boat from which this picture was taken is approaching lock No. 37, which was called Mountain Lock and is considered one of the most scenic locks on the canal. Note how close the canal is to the river in this area. Where hills come directly down to the river, it was not possible to put the canal back away from it in an effort to make it less vulnerable to flood waters. The engineers would, however, attempt to keep the canal as high above the river as possible.
Dam 6 was the head of navigation for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from 1842 until 1850. By 1850 the company had been able to raise funds and finish the last “50 miles” to what would be the terminus of the canal in Cumberland. The construction of the dam served multiple purposes which included: supplying the canal at regular intervals with river water, protection of the canal to high water and the creation of easily navigable river waters for a few miles upriver. Along with the construction of the Dam, a guard lock, flume and abutments were also built.
Sale of Property.——
The Boonsboro' Odd Fellow states that, a few weeks ago, Mr, John D. Grove sold his warehouses, with five acres of land attached, situated at Rushville, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, one mile from Sharpsburg, for $ 1,500. Purchaser, Mr. Wm. Loughridge.
RAIN AND FLOOD.
This oral history of Clifford "Pete" Mose was conducted by Walt Bolton in 1972. In it Mose, from Sharpsburg, tells of his experience on the canal, replacing his brother who went to join the army during World War I.
Mose also tells of life growing up in Sharpsburg, finding bullets and muskets on the battlefield at Antietam, muskets in the Antietam Creek, and the discovery of the bodies of three Ohio soldiers on Mansfield Avenue on the battlefield.
The first PDF is the file as received from the Frederick County Public Library, the second is a searchable version.
A Man Drowned.
Information Wanted.
We understand that Frances Marrow of Sharpsburg in this county was drowned while steering the Canal Boat "Albert Braught" on "Big Slack Water," near where the Marsh Run empties into the Potomac, on Monday the 30th of September last. He wore a black overcoat with cape and blouse and dark pants. His distressed mother, Mrs. Ellen Marrow is very anxious to recover his remains, if they have been washed ashore and will be thankful for any information that may enable her to do so.
Sheriff’s Sale.
BY virtue of an order of the Circuit Court for Washington Courtly, passed this 1st day of September, 1855, I hereby give notice that I will proceed to sell at public sale on Thursday the 4th day of October next, in the Public Square in Sharpsburg, One Canal Boat called OREGON taken as the property of William Reynolds, by virtue of a writ of attachment, at the suit of Morgan and A. R. Miller.
Bodies Found.
The Shepherdstown Register says that the bodies of William Dunham and Miller Cole, who were drowned at the breach in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, on the night of the 1st inst., were found in the Potomac on Saturday last, the 4th inst., near Harpers Ferry.