The Welsh & Flanagan Families on The C&O Canal

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A collaborative research effort between William Bauman of the C&O Canal Association and the descendants of the Welsh and Flanagan families, this report details the lives of the Flanagan and Welsh families on the C&O Canal.

The report is currently in PDF format and can be viewed by clicking here This report can also be viewed via the C&O Canal Association website.

If you have any further information relating to the Welsh or Flanagan families of Harpers Ferry, or related families, in regards to their relationship with the C&O Canal, we would be delighted to hear from you!

 
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The Welsh & Flanagan Families on The C&O Canal

Author:Kaila

Born and raised in Jefferson County, West Virginia, Kaila is a family historian and storyteller devoted to preserving the voices of those who built the region but were too often left out of its written history. A descendant of both colonial settlers and Irish Catholic laborers who arrived in the Bakerton and Harpers Ferry area in the early 1800s, Kaila approaches history not as a list of dates and names, but as a story connecting generations of ordinary people whose hands shaped extraordinary places.
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