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
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, located in the historic Georgetown neighborhood, NW, 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…