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131 |
10-Aug-98 |
Low-lying clouds over WV ridge. May be Great Cacapon, at over 1800 feet,
the tallest ridge that the canal passes. |
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132 |
10-Aug-98 |
Culvert and mosses. |
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133.5 |
10-Aug-98 |
Looking downstream at the Potomac near the junction with the Cacapon
River. |
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133.55 |
10-Aug-98 |
Railroad bridge over the Cacapon River. |
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134 |
10-Aug-98 |
Clouds passing over a ridge in West Virginia. |
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134.06 |
10-Aug-98 |
Guard Lock No. 6. Dam No. 6 was completed in April, 1839; made of wood
filled with rocks. The dam was damaged by floods in 1877, 1886, 1889, 1936, and 1942. It also
burned in 1936. From 1842 to 1850, this was the head of the canal, as the final fifty miles had not
been completed. |
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134.06 |
10-Aug-98 |
Part of Dam No. 6. |
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134.06 |
10-Aug-98 |
Guard Lock No. 6. |
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134.23 |
10-Aug-98 |
Polly Pond, at the mouth of Long Hollow. The railroad piers are far enough
apart to allow canal boats to pass between them into the pool to turn around. |
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134.23 |
10-Aug-98 |
Polly Pond, seen from the top of the railroad bridge. |
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136.56 |
10-Aug-98 |
Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct (No. 8), completed in 1848; a single span of 110
feet. This creek marks the border between Washington County (downstream) and Allegheny
County(upstream). |
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140.9 |
10-Aug-98 |
Fifteenmile Creek Aqueduct (No. 9). Completed c. 1850; single span of 110
feet. |
