22. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy courtesy of the Library of Congress C& O CANAL AT WISCONSIN AVENUE - Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Georgetown Section, East & West parallel to M Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

ID: 3124 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Historic American Buildings Survey ~ Date: Documentation compiled after 1933

This file appears in: C&O Canal National Historical Park: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is an excellent and well-preserved example of 19th-century canal technology.

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A remarkable engineering achievement of the early 19th century that played an important role in the development of Georgetown commerce, and stimulated trade and settlement of the interior.

This file appears in: C&O Canal National Historical Park: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is an excellent and well-preserved example of 19th-century canal technology.

C&O Canal National Historical Park: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is an excellent and well-preserved example of 19th-century canal technology.

By The DC Historic Sites team

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…