Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, located in the historic Georgetown neighborhood, NW, Washington, D.C.

ID: 3125 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Carol M. Highsmith ~ Date: 2010

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.

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…