Swains Lock
โ Scribed by Edward A Stabler
- Book ID
- 100399513
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B0049B2C5W
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Welcome to the C & O Canal. A flatwater route to western wealth -- The great national project. The construction challenge ; The canal at work ; Serving the Potomac Valley -- Guide and adviser. Approaching the canal ; Canal maps ; Georgetown to Swains Lock ; Georgetown and the branch canals ; Pennyfield Lock to Shepherdstown ; Civil War sites map ; Great Falls and its tavern ; Industrial Harpers Ferry ; Ferry Hill to Cumberland ; Williamsport: canal town ; Cumberland: canal terminus ; Recreation ; Potomac pathways ; The floodplain forest ; Interpretive activities and community programs ; Management and safety ; Further reading -- Index.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Vin Illick finds a note from 1924 in an old shed next to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The note alludes to killings at Swains Lock and a gravesite with buried money. Though his fiancee wants him to get a job, Vin becomes obsessed with finding the gravesite. In the process he learns that the past wo