Tourist barge at the Georgetown lock on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Washington, D.C.

ID: 3123 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Carol M. Highsmith ~ Date: [between 1980 and 2006]
This file appears in: C&O Canal National Historical Park
Tourist barge at the Georgetown lock on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Washington, D.C.
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This file appears in: C&O Canal National Historical Park

The C&O Canal Company was chartered in 1825, the same year as the opening of the Erie Canal. The groundbreaking was celebrated by President John Quincy Adams at Little Falls in 1828. The canal was completed to Seneca by 1830, to Rock Creek by…