Dusk on the C&O Canal. Washington, D.C.

Water gushes through a canal lock on the historic C&O canal. As seen from Thomas Jefferson Street in the Georgetown Neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Short for Chesapeake & Ohio, the canal was intended to connect the eastern seaboard with the Ohio river valley region. With construction beginning in the 1830's, the canal was overtaken by the faster and more efficient B&O railroad, and construction was halted as far as Cumberland, Maryland.

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Water gushes through a canal lock on the historic C&O canal. As seen from Thomas Jefferson Street in the Georgetown Neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Short for Chesapeake & Ohio, the canal was intended to connect the eastern seaboard with the Ohio river valley region. With construction beginning in the 1830's, the canal was overtaken by the faster and more efficient B&O railroad, and construction was halted as far as Cumberland, Maryland.