Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
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Mules were the "engines" for the canal boats. Normally, a boat captain had four mules. Two worked while two rested in their stall in the front of the boat. Captains usually cared for their mules as if they were part of the family. In the canal's peak years,…
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Georgetown Incline Plane. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Here, in 1876, an engineering marvel was built. The largest incline plane in the world and the first built in the United States, carried canal boats to and from the Potomac River.…
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Abner Cloud Mill. Echoes of Millstones. Baking bread, frying cornbead and eating "stick to your ribs" oatmeal, all have one thing in common; their ingredients started out at a grist mill. Decades before the sounds of lockhorns and mule hooves clopping by, m…
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At All Hours. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. It shall be their duty, at all hours, by night as well as by day, to pass all boats and floats presenting themselves at their locks. . Charles Mercer, President, C&O Canal Company . . Eve…
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Godey's Lime Kilns. These kilns were used as late as 1908, supplying Washington with a fine grade of lime. The limestone was brought from quarries just beyond Seneca, Maryland over the C & O Canal.
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Inlet Locks. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Seven dams and one steam pump were built along the river to funnel water into the canal. In times of drought or low water, usually during the height of summer, river levels dropped dramaticall…
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A Way for Fish. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. If you walk down the short path to the water's edge and look upriver to your right, you can see Snake Island in the middle of Little Falls Dam. Just behind the island, hidden underwater, is…
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Cumberland. . In 1749 Christopher Gist, an agent for the Ohio Company, arrived at the junction of the Wills Creek and the North Branch of the Potomac River to erect a trading post. In anticipation of the French and Indian War a fort was constructed in 1754 …
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Crossroads of America Mural. . . About this sign . The outline drawing above represents the heritage-themed mural to your right. The mural is organized chronologically into sections. Each section is described here, with accompanying historic images. . .…
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Cumberland. Town Map and Directory. . Downtown Cumberland . The Flood of March 29, 1924 inflicted almost $5 million worth of destruction in the City of Cumberland. Telephone, telegraph, roads and electric wires were washed away. Though not as bad, another…