Boat on the Canal
by Stuart Litoff
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Boat on the Canal
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Stuart Litoff
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Photograph - Photograph
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An historic canal boat by a lock at the canal near Great Falls, Maryland, on a beautiful autumn day.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, also called the C&O Canal, operated from 1831 until 1924. It ran parallel to the Potomac River in Maryland, from Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C. The total length of the canal is about 185 miles. A lock is a device for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The locks make a river more easily navigable, or allow a canal to take a more direct line across land that is not level. The C&O canal is now maintained by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, with a trail following the old towpath.
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November 17th, 2021
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