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.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 23, also known as Violette's Lock, Montgomery County Maryland.
The lock takes its name from Alfred "Alf" Violette, last lock tender in the operating period of the canal until 1924. His wife Kate was lock tender in 1938 when the property was in receivership, probably just as property caretaker.
This area was temporarily the head of navigation on the canal, and was named Rushville for Richard Rush, one time Secretary of Treasury, whose work helped the canal financially.
A frame lock house built in 1930 stood on the berm side but burned in 1930. There was another reportedly log lock house in 1939. Uncertain if it was another pre-existing structure perhaps for the inlet lock.
The canal below the lock was restored and rewatered by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1938 to 42, although some sections have deteriorated.
Adjacent to this is Inlet Lock 2, at the #2 dam remnant. It provided water to some 17 miles of canal downstream, as well as a river lock for smaller craft to navigate through this part of the river.
Even though the dam is in ruins, it still creates a slack water pool about five feet deep upstream.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 23, also known as Violette's Lock, Montgomery County Maryland.
The lock takes its name from Alfred "Alf" Violette, last lock tender in the operating period of the canal until 1924. His wife Kate was lock tender in 1938 when the property was in receivership, probably just as property caretaker.
This area was temporarily the head of navigation on the canal, and was named Rushville for Richard Rush, one time Secretary of Treasury, whose work helped the canal financially.
A frame lock house built in 1930 stood on the berm side but burned in 1930. There was another reportedly log lock house in 1939. Uncertain if it was another pre-existing structure perhaps for the inlet lock.
The canal below the lock was restored and rewatered by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1938 to 42, although some sections have deteriorated.
Adjacent to this is Inlet Lock 2, at the #2 dam remnant. It provided water to some 17 miles of canal downstream, as well as a river lock for smaller craft to navigate through this part of the river.
Even though the dam is in ruins, it still creates a slack water pool about five feet deep upstream.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Inlet Lock 2, and to the right is Lock 23, also known as Violette's Lock, Montgomery County Maryland.
The lock takes its name from Alfred "Alf" Violette, last lock tender in the operating period of the canal until 1924. His wife Kate was lock tender in 1938 when the property was in receivership, probably just as property caretaker.
This area was temporarily the head of navigation on the canal, and was named Rushville for Richard Rush, one time Secretary of Treasury, whose work helped the canal financially.
A frame lock house built in 1930 stood on the berm side but burned in 1930. There was another reportedly log lock house in 1939. Uncertain if it was another pre-existing structure perhaps for the inlet lock.
The canal below the lock was restored and rewatered by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1938 to 42, although some sections have deteriorated.
Adjacent to the inlet lock was damn number 2, which remains only as a rubble pile across the river. It provided water to some 17 miles of canal downstream. This was also used as a river lock for smaller craft to navigate through this part of the river.
Even though the dam is in ruins, it still creates a slack water pool about five feet deep upstream.