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Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD
Summary
Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of canal boats pulled by animals treading the canal's towpath, and for the economy of its design. It is the only such structure built across the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1105
Survey number: HAER MD-23
Building/structure dates: 1923 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1936 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1970 Subsequent Work
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Date
1970
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Potomac Edison Company
Western Maryland Railway
New York Central Railway
Fancus Machine Company
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, project manager
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Tamburro, Sam, sponsor
Location
maryland, 36.89817, -81.33310
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
