The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Wood Print

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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, commonly known as the C&O Canal, stretches 184.5 miles along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland, Maryland. It was built in the early 1800's as a "water highway" to connect the communities along this nearly 200-mile stretch without having to use the oftentimes turbulent and rocky Potomac River for transportation. The canal, which runs parallel to the Potomac, is quite a contrast to the river for its water flows gently, due in part to the meticulous construction of the canal, which has 74 lift locks, seven dams and 11 aqueducts.

By 1924 the once essential C&O Canal was no longer necessary because of major advances in transportation, including the railroad and automobiles, and it stopped operating that year. In 1961 President Eisenhower proclaimed the C&O Canal a national monument, and an act of Congress in 1971 established the canal as a national historical park. Today the path that runs along the canal is a popular...

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...

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