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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Historic image of Coxey's Army in an unidentified lock on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Maryland.
In 1894, Jacob S Coxey and Carl Browne led a group of about 500 from Massillon Ohio to Washington DC following the panic of 1893, demanding that the federal government fund infrastructure projects to get unemployed Americans back to work. It was one of the first popular protest marches on Washington, DC, and the ideas foreshadowed the New Deal plan that would occur some 30 years later.
Historic image of the Cumberland Wharf along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad.
Historic 1939 image of repair work on "lower locks" on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which we assume is in Georgetown, Washington DC. From the C&O Canal Trust collection.