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