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Winter's Canal

© Robert B. Keating

Winter's Canal

Uploaded: November 13, 2010

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Construction of the C&O Canal began with a groundbreaking ceremony on July 4, 1828 by President John Quincy Adams. The following year, the Canal experienced its first flood. Since then, seventeen major floods and numerous minor ones have occurred causing millions of dollars in damage. The region near Harper’s Ferry is one of the most vulnerable locations due to the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah Rivers.

Repeated flooding often closed the canal for months, even whole seasons. The canal was also over-shadowed by the B&O railroad, which stretched westward many years before the canal. By 1924, the railroad had captured almost all of the trade when yet another devastating flood struck. This time the canal ceased commercial operations. Since then, flooding continues to threaten historical structures on the canal and hampers attempts at restoration.


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