Service, i hope you guys enjoyed your ride, okay . You did a fine job. Thank you. Youve been watching our weekly seary, american artifacts on cspan3 American History tv. You can view this and all our other programs online at cspan. Org history. Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the National Park service. Tonight we bring you a number of National Park service tours from our american artifacts and real america programs. Some of the sites include Congress Hall in philadelphia. The manakasee battlefield and the appomattox courthouse and that starts on American History tv. 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signed a bill creating the National Park service and thursday we look back on the past century of these care takers of americas natural and historic treasures. Beginning at 10 00 eastern and throughout the day we take you to National Park Service Sites throughout the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern we are live from the National Park services most visited his
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
Through the various ports that were in between cumberland and georgetown. Used for cooking and goods like that. You would have goods coming from georgetown, as well. Georgetown was the factory town back then so you did have mills that would produce your grains and meats and you would have timber that would come from there. Any type of furniture, textile goods, clothing and all of that would be shipped up north to the various ports in between there. So this was a twoway traffic back then and there was only one tow path that we had that was used for our mules. So the question im sure you guys are all thinking of it, is how are two boats if theyre going in opposite directions going to pass each other . All right. We will all pretend that there is a boat coming downstream right now at us. Theyre loaded up with coal and so if theyre loaded up with coal that means theyre about 120 tons and were about 8 tons maybe. So that means they have the right of way because its a whole lot harder to sta
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