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Historic Photos
Locks, Canal Boats, Operators
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Stop gate 4
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Cushwa Basin with boats
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Cushwa coal wharf
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Four Locks area and people
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Woman on boat locking through
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Sam Taylor, Lock keeper at four locks 1889-1924
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Man standing next to building
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Packet boat in Lock 66, 1904
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Boat leaving tunnel
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Cumberland, 1851
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Mules feeding
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Sheet iron photography, 1890-1900
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Downstream end of Lock 5
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Portrait of lock keeper, Lock 13
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Shawnee canoe trip
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Lock tender and his family
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Salty Dog Tavern
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Mountain Lock, 1920
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Loading canal boat, ca. 1910
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Lock 31, ca. 1900
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Canal bed mower
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Williamsport flood, 1924
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Canal Towage Co. boat #80
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Mules and canal boat at a lock
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Canal boats parked along Canal bank
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Winter along the Canal
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Consolidation Coal Co. boat #14 parked along Canal bank
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Passenger boat
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One mile below Antietam on the Canal, 1904
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People on towpath with passing canal boat, 1916
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Sometub tied up on the shore, 1916
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Mrs. Cowan, small shack, and Sometub, 1916
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Aunt Sallie and Uncle Paul at the Bowles House, ca. 1930
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Upstream view, Lock 15, 1900
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Unknown, ca. 1900-1920
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Unknown
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Girl and her grandmother
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Possessions to be moved, ca. 1900
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Man and boys on boat in Georgetown, 1920
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Clothing line on canal boat, Georgetown, 1920
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Children on canal boat, Georgetown, 1920
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Canal family gathered under boat canopy, Georgetown, 1920
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Hebb’s boat #6, 1920
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Family at Lock 48
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Docked boat with mules, Hancock Basin
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Mule team on towpath, 1920
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Cumberland boat yard, 1870
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Canal boat
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Unknown boat family
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Pulling boat through lock
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Ford mine operations, ca. 1930’s
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Pennyfield, 1910
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Violets at Violets’ Lock
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Image of the Cross family
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Mountain Lock area, 1920
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Section house, 1960
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Mules at Lock 44
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Canal boats on the Potomac River, ca. 1910
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Mules between Calico Rocks and Nolands Ferry, ca. 1910
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Unfortunate Spong family
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Passenger boat
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Work scow and company house
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Cushwa Wharf at Williamsport, MD, 1904
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In a lock, on the way to Tidewater
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Feeding the mules at the head of Big Slackwater, 1904
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Flood Chain Bridge,DC, 1889
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Worker at lock
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Canal boat in lock 15
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Loading coal into canal boats, Cumberland MD, ca. 1920
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Sharpsburg MD
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Pleasure boat in lock
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Work crew quarters, men and children
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Canal mother and child
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Above the aqueduct bridge
