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.
Several members of the C&O Canal Association along with Poolesville Seniors participated Sunday in a hike from the Catoctin Lock at Lander to the Catoctin Aqueduct and the new bridge at the Little Catoctin Creek. The towpath was snow covered and melted as the temperature rose. Three trains passed by during the hike. It was a beautiful day for a hike!
There was not significant snow melt to ride a bike. We did not see any bikers.
Was there sufficient snow melt that one could ride a bike?
Progress on the River Park at Canal Place continues
Has anyone really thought about the costs of restoring this area after floods? One only needs to look to the Canal for an analogous business situation.
Upcoming lecture about the C&O Canal and B&O Railroad at WilliamsportA wonderful, informative lecture coming up in the beautiful Western Maryland Room, at the Fletcher branch downtown. Our region has such strong history all around us, come learn something new!
👉https://wcfl.librarymarket.com/event/mccauley-lecture-co-canal-and-western-maryland-railroad-interchange-cushwa-basin-williamsport
Here is the description of this talk from the library’s YouTube channel: In his presentation, train expert and local historian Randy Anderson will talk about the interchange of freight, mainly coal, between the C&O Canal and two railroads in the Williamsport area from 1873 until the end of canal operations in the early 1920s.