System built on that side by using locks to get around the great falls and the Potomac River. However, it wasnt a very reliable usage. It didnt actually have longtime use. It was very kind of broken, didnt work very well. We went ahead and took his dream and built a canal right next to the Potomac River so that we could use that water source but have something thats more controlled and reliable compared to the Potomac River because you took a boat over the falls, you probably wouldnt last very long. We ran this canal from georgetown to cumberland. We kind of ran into some problems. Also known as the appalachian mountains. We didnt really take that into consideration when we were building the canal itself, and so we kind of got stuck either going through the mountains or trying to go around. The canal is 184. 5 miles long. There are 75 locks, and were going to go through one of them today. Its lock 20 that were going to go through, and so what does the lock do . There is a very big elev
I remember a senator to rows behind me miss lynch, i dont want to get in the way of your confirmation. Ill talk to dr. Holder. The senator about three rows behind me said, reverend al also moment. I said, yes, it is. He said, for he is present to put his hand on lincolns bible and dr. Kings bible, he said its an aweinspiring moment. I said, yes, it is. I said, dont be confused. He said, what do you mean . I said, they are two identical bibles. Same amount of books, same amount of verses, same amount of chapters. There wasnt no difference in the bibles. The difference was lincolns bible had been on the mental place in the white house. Heads of states and captains of industry and men of military used to look at that bible, but dr. Kings bible didnt come that way. Dr. Kings bible came through the backwoods of georgia through the buying you bayous of mississippi. If you open up the inside, when he went to jail, they would check his bible and then send it through the necessary institutional
Ill give you a brief history of the canal. Its the chesapeake and ohio canal. Does not reached to the Chesapeake Bay or go up to the ohio river, which was the intention of the canal when we started billing it in july 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was ohio and pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. The eakpeak of the canal and the 1870s, if you were waiting at a loch, in 30 minutes there were 15 or 20 boats waiting. It was not a very reliable usage. A did not actually have a long time use. It was kind of broken. Did not work very well. So we went ahead and took his dream and build a canal next to the Potomac 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 you would not last very long. Well use this canal and ran it from georgetown all the way up to cumberl
Great falls tavern Visitors Center where we will take a boat ride to learn more about the chesapeake and the ohio canal. [foghorn] i would like to introduce myself. My name is cassondra and im a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think we will cast off shortly. We are going to go ahead and start their start and start and give you a brief history here on the canal. All right, it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but it definitely starts at the Chesapeake Bay and rose up to the mouth of the ohio canal. When we told it, we wanted to connect to 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. It was George Washingtons dream to use the Potomac River to transport goods and it was seen as a reasonable thing to do. He had any canal system go by using that you have any canal system built by using he had a canal system built while using a system
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