Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Brunswick MD
Posted by: Don.Morfe
N 39° 18.780 W 077° 37.692
18S E 273409 N 4354805
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Cumberland, Maryland. The canal way is now maintained as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
Waymark Code: WM16FMM
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 07/22/2022
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The Coordinates are for the C & O Canal Historical Park Visitor Center
in Brunswick MD
From Wikipedia
"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 River between Washington, D.C., and Cumberland, Maryland. It replaced the Potomac Canal, which shut down completely in 1828, and could operate during months in which the water level was too low for the former canal. The canal's principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains.
Construction on the 184.5-mile (296.9 km) canal began in 1828 and ended in 1850 with the completion of a 50-mile (80 km) stretch to Cumberland, although the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad had already reached Cumberland in 1842. Rising and falling over an elevation change of 605 feet (184 meters), it required the construction of 74 canal locks, 11 aqueducts to cross major streams, more than 240 culverts to cross smaller streams, and the 3,118 ft (950 m) Paw Paw Tunnel. A planned section to the Ohio River at Pittsburgh was never built.
The canal way is now maintained as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, with a trail that follows the old towpath."
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