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Erie Canal Museum has posted a video of their December 22 program: Interesting Infrastructure: Four Unique Mid-Atlantic Canals. You can find it at: https://youtu.be/XnvLIMoKC_8 With the completion of the Erie…
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.
Enjoy the view!
Beautiful 📸
That’s a good ride. How long did it take you to ride that distance?
Where do the boats @ Williamsport basin get stored for winter?
Here’s a story about Gilbert Gude who sponsored the House of Representative bill in 1970 to make the C&O Canal into a National Historical Park along with J. Glenn Beall. Both were heroes for preserving the C&O Canal and have largely been forgotten. The article is about Gilbert Gude.
After the hearing, Congressman Gude sent me the hearing's testimony and a photo. In the photo there's Gude, Beall, Charles Stover Cub Scout and Jon Wolz Eagle Scout.After Jon spoke he was followed by Mark Stover, Life Scout.
Here’s more:
m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=804231808302924&id=100061483373084&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=QlaXn8
(Story contributed to our Facebook by Jon Wolz)
They are indeed among the heroes we need to thank for the park we have today!
Can anyone make out the writing at lower left of the black and white photo?