I think that we are going to cast off here shortly, but were going to go ahead and start. A brief history on the canal. It definitely doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river. We wanted to connect the Eastern Shore which with what was considered the west, ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connected to the bay, so we did was we stern building the canal. We started earlier with a George Washington dream to use the river, back then it was seen as a reasonable thing to do so we went ahead and had a canal system built on that side by using left to get around the great falls and river. Although it wasnt very reliable usage. It didnt have long time use. It was kind of broken. That were very well. We went to head and took his, dream built a canal right next to the river so we could use that water source but have something that is more controlled and reliable, compared to the potomac river, because you took a boat over the falls, he probably wouldnt last very long. So we took this c
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My name is cassandra sohyda, and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think we are going to cast off here shortly. But we are going to go ahead and start and give you a brief history of here on the canal. All right, so, it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but it definitely doesnt reach the the Chesapeake Bay or go all the way up to the ohio river, and is the intention of our canal when we first started building the canal in 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. And so what we did was, we started building this canal. We tried earlier, it was George Washingtons dream to actually use the Potomac River as a way to transport goods. Back then it was seen as a reasonable thing to do, so he went ahead and had a canal system built on that side by using locks to get around the great falls and Po