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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Photos & Multimedia
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Boats on the Canal
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Boat Turning on the canal
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Canal Boat at Paw Paw Tunnel
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Canal Boat inside of a lock
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Canal Boat Operation
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Child on a canal boat
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Man on Deck
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Men boarding boat
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News from home
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Packet Boat on Canal
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Locks on the Canal (10 Photos)
The C&O Canal contains 74 lift locks that stepped boats up from Georgetown to Cumberland. The C&O Canal Company hired men (preferrably married with children) to maintain and operate the locks.
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Places on the Canal (10 Photos)
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal not only linked Washington D.C. with Cumberland but brought development and prosperity to rural towns and families that lived along the canal.
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Boats throughout the canal (12 Photos)
The construction of the canal caused heavy financial burden on local, state, and federal governments. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company relied on tolls paid by canal boats to payoff its debt.
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Did You Know?
Aqueducts are water filled bridges. Aqueducts carried the canal and boat traffic over major waterways, like rivers. Of the 11 aqueducts built along the canal, the Monocacy Aqueduct is the longest at 516 feet, its seven arches constructed mainly of stone quarried from nearby Sugarloaf Mountain.
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Last Updated: December 18, 2007 at 11:14 EST |
