The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac...
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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is located in the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland. The park was established in 1961...
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The Locks on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, located in Maryland, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. of the United States, were of three types: lift locks;...
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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Association is a not-for-profit organization that supports the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Its charter...
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C&O (redirect from Chesapeake & Ohio)
abbreviation that may refer to: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the United States C&O desk Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the United States Callander and...
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Paw Paw Tunnel (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal)
The Paw Paw Tunnel is a 3,118-foot-long (950 m) canal tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) in Allegany County, Maryland. Located near Paw Paw...
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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal commemorative obelisk is an 8-foot (2.4 m) marble obelisk erected in 1850 in Washington, D.C., to mark the completion of...
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towpath. The R&A became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the 1890s, which developed much of the former canal route into an important line for West...
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time, to Tiber Creek, the Potomac River, and later the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. The canal fell into disuse during the late 19th century and the...
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The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio. It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on...
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Billy Goat Trail (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park)
trail that follows a path between the C&O Canal and the Potomac River within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park near the Great Falls...
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Chesapeake, Northampton County, Virginia, an unincorporated community Chesapeake, Indiana, defunct Chesapeake, Missouri Chesapeake, Ohio Chesapeake,...
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Great Falls Tavern (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park)
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath, it is today used by the National Park Service as one of its five visitor centers in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National...
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List of Maryland Scenic Byways (redirect from Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Scenic Byway)
byways that follow the historic routes of the National Road, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Underground Railroad. The Historic National Road Scenic...
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the Chesapeake and Ohio canal had seven dams built to feed water. If a dam was not built, often water had to be pumped. The Chesapeake and Ohio put a...
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Great Falls (Potomac River) (section Canals)
Washington Memorial Parkway, is on the southern banks in Virginia, and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park parkland is along the northern banks...
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Riley's Lock (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal)
and lock house are part of the 184.5-mile (296.9 km) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (a.k.a. C&O Canal) that operated from the 1830s through 1923 along the...
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Violette's Lock (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal)
Lock (Lock 23) is part of the 184.5-mile (296.9 km) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (a.k.a. C&O Canal) that operated in the United States along the Potomac...
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763411 Canal Place is a 58.1-acre (235,000 m2) heritage area located in Cumberland, Maryland at the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The...
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Bear Island (Maryland) (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park)
and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near the Great Falls. It is managed by the National Park Service as part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National...
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Great Loop (category Ohio River)
To reach Chesapeake Bay, boats have a choice of the Dismal Swamp Canal or the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. Cruising north through Chesapeake Bay, Loopers...
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Whitewater Valley to the Ohio River. Before the canal, farmers had to transport their goods and livestock to Cincinnati, Ohio on badly rutted and often...
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George Washington). This canal was later repurposed for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O), partially as Feeder #1, and as the canal itself from Lock 5 to...
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Potomac Company (category Chesapeake Bay watershed)
between states. Although the company charter was surrendered to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company in 1828, its curtailment has overall minor significance...
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Four Locks (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park)
Four Locks is a former small community which is now part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. It was once a thriving community of...
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canal basins are more usually used to moor residential and recreational narrowboats. A canal basin at Williamsport, MD on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal...
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Benjamin Wright (civil engineer) (category American canal engineers)
American civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1969, the American Society of Civil Engineers declared...
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Canal Fulton is a city in western Stark County, Ohio, United States, along the Tuscarawas River. The population was 5,325 at the time of the 2020 census...
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Seneca Aqueduct (category Chesapeake and Ohio Canal)
Aqueduct — or Aqueduct No. 1 — is a naviduct that carries the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) over Seneca Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland. The C&O...
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Intracoastal Waterway (redirect from Intracoastal Canal)
Cape Cod Canal Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Alligator-Pungo Canal Assawoman Canal Dismal Swamp Canal Cape May Canal Delaware...
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