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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Continuing Hike with Jon Wolz: Big Slackwater
Historic image of "Mr Jaboe" at Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 25, Edwards Ferry, Montgomery County Maryland, from the C&O Canal Trust collection.
The site is named for Edwards Ferry which operated across the Potomac River just below the lock. The Hahn guide book
The lock here was built in 1830, and it was extended in 1881-82 with rock and wooden cribbing on the lower end, to allow for the passage of two boats through the lock at once. This was the first lock to be given this treatment and little exists of that extension today.
The one and a half story brick lockhouse still stands on the Towpath side, and can be rented through the Canal Trust's Canal Quarters program.
Ruins beyond the lockhouse or that of the canal store, which were stabilized by National Park Service. The store closed according to the Hahn guide to the canal in 1906. The Jarboe family operated the store, and a wooden frame house on the berm side of the canal reportedly served as a store, operated by lock tenders John Walters and Charlie Pool for most of the remainder of the time the canal was in service.
It was Charlie Poole. James Beall was the lockkeeper around 1920 followed by his son Marion Beall in 1923. Marion lived in the lock house until 1951.
The boat captain was Frank MyersHistoric 1920 image featuring the break in the Conococheague Aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Williamsport Maryland.
A wooden sidewall replaced the broken section for the remaining 4 years of canal operation to follow.