Washington County Free Library

This image shows Lock 33. The lock house has not yet been built on the river side, so it is unclear where the locktender lived. It is possible that he lived in the stone building nearby.

A feed store was built over the large bypass flume at this lock. Stores were built over the flumes at other locks also, likely because the immediate proximity to the lock made it easier to transfer heavy bags of feed or other items to and from the store and boats in the lock.

A team of horses is pulling the bookmobile out of the mud.

The cows investigate the bookmobile which is stuck in the mud.

A large hog checks out the bookmobile.

Picture taken outside M.L. Burgan's store in Sharpsburg. The store was probably in what is now Cap'n Benders Tavern, next to O. T. Reilly's.

Beulah Eyerley was in charge of the Sharpsburg branch, located in a store in town.
 

B.K.E. is Beulah Katherine Eyerley, the librarian at Keedysville. The book collections were available for borrowing in local stores. This photograph is from a collection of her photographs.

In 1969 a new IHC was purchased. The body was adapted by the Thomas S. Maroney Bookmobile Co. of Shrewsbury, MA.

Even the horse is interested...

A visit to a farm family.

The bookmobile visits near Gapland.