Next we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington d. C. Where we will take a boat ride, to learn the history of the chesapeake and ohio canal. I would like to introduce myself, my name is chris andrea, and i am a seasonal park ranger heres. I think were going to, cast off here shortly, but we will go ahead and start and give you a brief history, about here on the canal, and its called the chesapeake and ohio canal, and it doesnt go all the way up to chesapeake bay, our the ohio river, which was the intention of the canal we started building it in basically july 4th, of 18 hundreds and 28. And the west was up in ohio, and pennsylvania at that time, and we wanted connect pittsburgh to the chesapeake bay. So what we did, was we started making this, canal and we tried earlier and it was George Washingtons dream to use the Potomac River to transport goods, and back then it would seem as a reasonable thing to do too he had a canal system built while using a system of locks but it did not
Next, we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington, d. C. To Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center where well take a boat ride to learn about the history of the chesapeake and ohio canal. I would like to introduce myself. My name is cassandra and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think were going to cast off here shortly, but well go ahead and start to give you a brief history of here on the canal. So it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but definitely doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river, which is your intention of the canal when we first started building it july 4th of 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 Riv
My name is cassandra sohida, and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think were going to cast off here shortly, but well go ahead and start to give you a brief history of here on the canal. So it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but definitely doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river, which is your intention of the canal when we first started building it july 4th of 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 to way a transport goods. Back then it seemed a reasonable thing to do so he had a canal system built by using locks to get around, and it wasnt a very reliable usage. It didnt actually have longtime use. It w
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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