• Historic Shot of Canal Boat on the Canal

    Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

    National Historical Park DC,MD,WV

Educational Programs

One of the missions of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is to educate the youth of America. There are many educational programs within the park, however the park has designed a classroom program if you are not able to visit the park.

Classroom Program

Did You Know?

Drawing DaVinci's lock gate design 1485.

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.