Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company memoir, 1859.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company memoir, 1859.

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Illustrated memoir (119 pages with illustrations) of several months working on the C&O canal. Includes comments on the Maryland countryside, towns, and natural history.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company

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Now a national park, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was once a major transportation artery that ran parallel to the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. The canal operated from the mid-nineteenth century into the 1930s and was used primarily for the transportation of coal and bulk agricultural products. These products, produced in the inland regions of the developing nation, were vital to the continuing prosperity of Tidewater cities and...