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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

NATIONAL HISTORICAL MARKER 
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL

ONE OF THE BEST PRESERVED AND LEAST 
ALTERED OF OLD AMERICAN CANALS, THE 
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO GREW FROM 
WASHINGTON'S VISION of LINKING THE 
VALLEYS OF THE EARLY WEST WITH THE 
EAST BY "TIES OF COMMUNICATIONS." 
THE POTOMAC COMPANY FOSTERED BY 
WASHINGTON TO IMPROVE NAVIGATION OF 
THE POTOMAC TRANSFERRED ITS RIGHTS 
IN 1828 TO THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO 
COMPANY ORGANIZED TO CONNECT THE 
OHIO AT PITTSBURGH WITH GEORGETOWN 
BY A CONTINUOUS CANAL. IN OCTOBER 
1850 AFTER 185 MILES WERE BUILT THE 
CONSTRUCTION CEASED AT CUMBERLAND. 
UNTIL 1924 TRADE CONTINUED ON THE 
OLD CANAL. TODAY, IT IS A MEMORIAL TO 
NATIONAL PROGRESS AND THE CANAD ERA.

 

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