Volunteering to help the park: A work crew installs a bench near Great Falls in 2016.
Supporting park projects: Catoctin Aqueduct after collapse in 1973
Supporting park projects: Catoctin Aqueduct after restoration effort in 2011
Exploring history and nature: Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct as viewed from the Western Maryland Rail Trail.
Protecting the canal since 1954: The association opposes Georgetown University’s plan to build a large boathouse in the park
Protecting the canal since 1954: The association opposes Georgetown University’s plan to build a large boathouse in the park
Exploring history and nature: Hikers gather at Fifteen Mile Creek Aqueduct in 2018.
Protecting the canal since 1954: Justice Douglas and eight others pause during their famous hike, which publicized the canal in 1954
Exploring history and nature: Ranger provides interpretation for hikers at Seneca Stone Cutting Mill in 2020.
Exploring history and nature: Hikers marvel at a large specimen during a tree identification walk in 2012
Volunteering to help the park: Association volunteer attaches plaque to newly installed bench in 2018.
Exploring history and nature: Association members participate in the last day of the 2009 Thru Hike at Great Falls
Volunteering to help the park: Association member helps install an identification sign at Landers in 2011
Exploring history and nature: Hikers gather at Dam 5 in 2019.
Protecting the canal since 1954: Justice Douglas and others rally against replacing the canal with a highway.
Volunteering to help the park: Association members repaint picnic tables at Swains Lock
Volunteering to help the park: Association volunteers assemble picnic table in 2018.
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.Historic 1904 scene on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Lock #64 2/3, Allegany County Maryland. From the C&O Canal Trust collection.
There was no Lock 65, so builders numbered locks with fractions in a couple of locations! It was apparently too complicated to renumber locks already under construction to the west.
Locks 62, 63 1/3, 64 2/3, and 66 all have a lift of ten feet rather than the average 8. This allowed builders to skip building lock 65 altogether.
This was a composite lock, where wood lining was used. A cheaper, "economy lock". Some of that wood remains.
Other portions of this lock were outfitted with concrete in 1919 to replace wooden sheathing.
A local legend has it that in 1890, the lock tender at this site, a very isolated location, was murdered for his collection of rare coins he was known to have. His body with crushed skull was found in the burned ruins of the original lock house.
Sometime later, a man was found in Shanty Town near Cumberland, buying a drink with a rare coin. More were found in his pocket, and other businessmen of the area claimed he had also purchased using peculiar coins. He was convicted and hanged for the murder that occurred at this site.
Historic 1920 image at the monocacy Aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with canoers including the daughter of US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. From the C&O Canal Trust collection.