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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T49_welcome-to-williamsport-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
Early History
Williamsport was along the heavily traveled "Indian Trail" and occupied by the Iroquois, Delaware, Catawba, Algonquin and Massawomenkes tribes. The settlement was known as Conococheague, an Indian name meaning either "a long way," i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T48_the-c-o-canal-in-williamsport-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
Though the C&O Canal construction started in 1828, it did not reach Williamsport until 1833. During that year of construction a Cholera epidemic broke out that took the lives of 33 people. The following year the Canal and Aqueduct were completed i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T3P_life-on-the-canal-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
"I would get acquainted with the life of the canal...for I had see nothing of the live boats and still livelier, the barge men, tow boys, cooks and lockkeepers which make up the life of the canal in summer."
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T3O_boats-passing-by-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
In days past, while standing on the edge of the canal one would see a variety of boats float by. During the peak operating years of the C&O Canal in the 1870's, as many as 550 freight boats were in use on the canal carrying tons of coal from Cumbe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T2X_lock-44-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
With the canal came industry and commerce, and that was no exception at Lock 44. While the only structures left standing at this pot are Lockhouse 44 and the lock, during the operating days of the canal businesses existed here. The Steffey and Fin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T2W_a-canal-home-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
The boatsmen had a hard life. But the locktenders did too, because they couldn't go nowhere. They had to be on the job all the time. - Harvey Brant, Locktender, Lock 44.
The canal company supplied locktenders with a house next to the lock which…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T2K_gettysburg-campaign-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T2F_cushwa-basin-williamsport-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
Williamsport is located near the midway point of the 184.5 mile-long C & O Canal. Cushwa Basin was a turning basin where the 90 to 95 foot-long canal boats could turn around, one of only a few along the length of the canal system. This allowed boa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SVU_the-c-o-canal-in-the-civil-war-at-williamsport-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
The C&O Canal was an important transportation line during the Civil War, and was a frequent target of attack from both sides.
Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's troops attempted to breat Dam Nos. 4 & 5 in the winter of 1861-62.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SVT_murder-of-dewitt-clinton-rench-rentch-historical_Williamsport-MD.html
On June 5, 1861 Dewitt Clinton Rench came to Williamsport on business for his father, a local farmer. Angered at the presence of a Confederate sympathizer, a crowd of men demanded that he leave town. Rench refused until a prominent citizen advised…