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The National Park Service is seeking input and ideas for the future of the Great Falls area of Chesapeake & Canal National ...
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Map (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) But by the time this first enlargement was completed, it was obvious the canal needed to be bigger. It was widened again from 1933 ...
It has been about 100 years since barges floated along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Washington, D.C., and rural Maryland. But hikers, bikers, kayakers and history buffs have found much to ...
The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, known as the C&D Canal, is a busy, 14-mile working body of water that connects the Elk River, at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, ...
Driver killed after car falls into Chesapeake & Delaware Canal A 60-year-old man from Elkton, Maryland was killed on Sunday night after, law enforcement officials said, his vehicle left the road ...
BALTIMORE, July 1.--In the United States Circuit Court to-day Judges Bond and Morris filed their opinion in the case of Stewart and others against the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Starting on Jan. 8 through March 31, the Great Dismal Swamp Canal will be closed to boating traffic due to a infrastructure refurbishment project at the Deep Creek Locks in Chesapeake.
The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal opened for operation in 1859. During the Civil War, the strategic value of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was recognized by both the Union and the Confederacy.
As a piece of revolutionary infrastructure, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal failed miserably. Following the Potomac River for 184.5 miles, from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Md., the waterway was ...