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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park Photo of boy with five mules near Cumberland, MD circa 1920.
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal NHP
1850 Dual Highway, Suite 100
Hagerstown, MD 21740-6620

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Park Headquarters 301-739-4200
Georgetown Visitor Center 202-653-5190
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Drawing DaVinci's lock gate design 1485.

Did You Know?
Transporting goods and people by canal dates back to antiquity. The lock gates used on the C&O Canal were an adaptation of a design by Leonardo DaVinci in the late 1400's. Until the advent of the railroad, water travel was far superior to land travel.
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