Only living survivors of Washington's Canal Project see it made a national parkway. Washington, D.C., Feb. 22. The abandoned Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, once running barges from Georgetown, D.C., to Frederick, M.D., a canal first directed by George Washington before Washington was thought of as a city, was today dedicated as a National Parkway under the Interior Department. Assistant Secretary of Interior, Oscar Chapman - center - talked to the only living locktenders of the canal while a barge was run through lock no. 1. Left to Right: 77-year old Charles Stewart, Mr. Chapman, Sylvester Pennyfield, 82 yrs. old, 2-22-39
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Date
01/01/1939
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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