Williamsport forwarding agent, 1835
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Charles A. Warfield of A
Commission Merchant
and Forwarding Agent
At Williamsport
The canal in the newspapers
Articles that were printed in the local newspapers about the canal.
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War on the Canal (Irish workers), 1834
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WAR ON THE CANAL.
The Williamsport Banner, of Saturday, gives the following particulars of the affray, among the workmen on the Canal, noticed in our last:
Death at Four Locks, 1855
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A Fatal Accident.
Wednesday last, as we understand, a young man, named George Fisher, aged about 20 years, accidentally fell, as he was leaving a boat at the “Four Locks” in this County, to step upon a plank leading across a race, and struck his head against the plank, with so much violence as to cause instant death. A Coroner's inquest was held, and a verdict rendered in accordance with the facts.
More Proscription, 1856
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More Proscription.
A Man Drowned - Benjamin Feecus, 1856
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A Man Drowned.
The Flood at Home, 1889
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The Potomac Higher Than Ever Before—
Wreckage of the Canal—
Vast Destruction of Personal Property and Ruin of Homes and Business—Speedy Restoration of Railroad Travel and Traffic.
Constable's sale at Millstone Point, 1856
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Constables Sale
Hands wanted, 1849
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Hands Wanted
On the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
MEN can now find constant employment and
cash payments on any part of the line of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from Georgetown to Dam 6.
August 29, 1849.
Canal receipts 1872
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Herald of Freedom & Torch Light, 27 November, 1872
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Receipts.—
The receipts of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company for the week ending Saturday, November 9th, were : Cumberland, $15,240.81; Georgetown, $1,734 ; Hancock, $206.20 ; Williamsport, $64.39. Total, $17,245.40.
The receipts for the week ending, Nov. 16 were from Cumberland $7,264.57; Georgetown, $1,700; Hancock, $167.27; Williamsport $158.69; total $9,289 50.
Canal appointments, July 1856
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The Canal Appointments.
The new Directory of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company has made the following appointments :—
Dewalt Stottlemyer, of Hancock, General Superintendent; J. P. Wade, Superintendent of Georgetown Division; Charles Clarke, Monocacy Division; Denton Oliver, Hancock Division; Richard M. Sprigg, Cumberland Division; David E. Price, Collector at Hancock.