FRESHET. — Rain commenced falling on Monday and continued with slight intermission up to Wednesday noon, causing the Potomac to swell higher than it has been for eight years. The freshet extended along the line of […]
Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America opening up new markets, employing an army of workers, and initiating the ties between capital and government that remain important to this day. The […]
Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first “transatlantic” history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration […]
Boating on the canal is reported by the Sharpsburg Record as very discouraging. Some have only made one trip and hardly realized enough to pay their expenses.
Canal Boat Sunk. The canal boat Fannie Flanagan, of Harper’s Ferry, ran on a rock in Big Slack Water, on Saturday, knocking a hole in the bottom. The boat filled with water and sank. Navigation was […]
The breaking up of the ice on the river has proven injurious to Dam No. 5 on the C. & O. Canal. About 80 or 100 feet of the old Dam has been broken and washed […]
The breach at Dam No. 4 is about to be closed, now that the stage of water will permit operations. Over 100 hands, (chiefly boatsmen, whose all is dependent upon the Canal,) are employed night and […]
