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	C & O Canal Association - News
		In the end, the Patowmack Canal venture did not prove a boon to the Company’s stockholders and the hamlet, Matildaville, did not grow into the thriving town that its founder hoped.
		Although the Patowmack Company ran in the red for most of its career, the boatmen using its canals plied their trade for a good three and a half to four decades until the C and O Canal Company came on the scene in 1828 and began building a continuous and unobstructed canal to Cumberland.
		It is worth remembering that the Patowmack Canal belonged to the age of the horse and boats propelled by hand or sail.
	www.candocanal.org /articles/washington.html (3442 words)

	The Patowmack Canal
		Although the Patowmack Company was a financial failure, its builders pioneered lock engineering and stimulated a wave of canal construction important to the country's development.
		The preservation of the Patowmack Canal is part of the Park Service's continuing efforts to protect and preserve special resources of the park.
		The significance of the Patowmack Canal in the development of the young nation is evident in its designation as a National Historic Landmark.
	www.nps.gov /gwmp/grfa/canal/pato.htm (1048 words)

	Patowmack Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Patowmack Canal is an inoperative canal located in Virginia, United States, that was designed to bypass rapids in the Potomac River upstream of the present Washington, D.C. area.
		The Canal is managed by the National Park Service as it is within Great Falls Park, an integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway.
		The Patowmack Canal Trail is accessible by wheelchair as far as Lock 1.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patowmack_Canal (1327 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Canal on the Rappahannock Overflowed With Red Ink
		Interest was revived in 1823 when the Patowmack Canal Co. announced plans to build a canal along the riverbank (the future Chesapeake and Ohio Canal) to replace the old rapids bypasses.
		A private canal, built for farmer and mill owner William Blackwell, extended the canal an additional two miles to his warehouse on the Fauquier bank of the river.
		Canal laborer James Mastin took issue in his diary in January 1857 with the canal company's report that "boating has almost entirely ceased" and mentioned that there were towpaths in the sections upriver from Kelly's Ford, where he had been working.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10920-2005Jan14?language=printer (1932 words)

	World Canals 1750-1799
		Canal proponent Elkanah Watson is born in New York.
		Canal engineer David Stanhope Bates is born on a farm between Morristown and Parsippany, New Jersey.
		Construction begins on the Blodgett Canal, bypassing the Amoskeag Falls of the Merrimack River, at Manchester, New Hampshire, and on Massachusetts' Middlesex Canal, between Lowell and Boston.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/Canal1750.html (1407 words)

	Geography
		This lesson is based on 'The Patowmack Canal : Waterway that Led to the Constitution" by Wilbur Garrett, Photographs by Kenneth Garrett.
		Others believed canals should be dug around the several falls, which often involved blasting a ditch through solid rock, and using locks where necessary to raise and lower boats.
		Progress in the building of the canal and clearing the river for navigation was slow but by 1788 a difficult pass opened between the Great Falls and the Senca River.
	incolor.inetnebr.com /gnelson/patowmaccanal.html (1476 words)

	Potomac Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Built to support the canal industry, Matildaville's fate was tied to that of the Patowmack Canal.
		The new company abandoned the Patowmack Canal in 1830 for an even more ambitious undertaking - a man-made waterway stretching from Georgetown to Cumberland on the Maryland side of the river.
		Although the Patowmack Company was a financial failure, its builders pioneered lock engineering and stimulated a wave of canal constuction important to the country's development.
	members.aol.com /rphs44/canal.html (811 words)

	PATC -- Great Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Patowmack Company (using the name given to the river by the local Powatan Indians) was formed in 1784 to construct a series of five canals to make the river navigable.
		Sadly, the Patowmack Canal Company never recouped its expenses, foiled by frozen conditions during the winter, unsafe water conditions during the spring, and poor stone used in construction.
		During the 26 years that the CandO canal system was in operation, flour, corn, whiskey, tobacco, furs, iron ore, and timber were poled down the river on flatboats from as far away as Cumberland, Maryland, which was a market center in the Allegheny Mountains.
	www.patc.net /hiking/destinations/grt_falls.html (1361 words)

	Great Falls VA Patowmack Canal Trail Directions
		The canal bed is dry in this section and may be difficult to recognize.
		The canal bed is dry in this area except for spots where recent rains have not drained off.
		The section to the right of the trail was a holding basin where canal boats waited their turn to use the locks up ahead.
	www.restonpaths.com /GreatFallsVACanal/Directions.htm (1120 words)

	Canals
		Susquehanna Canal, and a Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
		Swamp Canal is enlarged to permit the passage of flatboats.
		Seneca and Cauga lakes to the Erie Canal.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/Canals.html (7512 words)

	Great Falls Historical Society (VA) Photographs - Dickeys Inn at Matildaville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1839 the Virginia Legislature disestablished the town, after the canal was abandoned in 1830.
		The newly built C & O Canal across the river had bought the assets of the Patowmack Canal Company and was now the waterway to Cumberland.
		Matildaville was a destination for tireless ex-President Washington, arriving on horseback, surveying the work on the canal, tying up his mount, and seeking out the superintendent to confer with him on the progress of his cherished project at the Great Falls of the Potomac that we visit today.
	gfhs.org /pics/dickeys.htm (314 words)

	Article - Doggin' America's Canals
		He chartered the Patowmack Company in 1784 to construct a series of five canals along the Potomac River to reach into the virgin territory of the Ohio Valley.
		Old canals were naturals to be converted into parks and are great places to take your dog for a hike.
		The trail is a mix of meadows and forests and the remnants of locks and villages.
	www.hikewithyourdog.com /Articles/DogginAmericasCanals.html (737 words)

	Using Source - Exercises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Be sure to use a parenthetical citation to indicate the source as you would if you were using the summary, paraphrase, or direct quote in a paper you were writing.
		Eventually, a navigable Potomac, with improved channels and five bypass canals, would connect the Atlantic seaboard to upriver ports an--via a road portage--to the Ohio country and lands far to the west that few white men had yet seen.
		Though it was Washington's lobbying for his canal that led to Philadelphia, it was obvious there was much more at stake.
	www.octech.org /icourses/eng/Eng101/SrcEx.html (672 words)

	National Park Service - Founders and Frontiersmen (Harpers Ferry National Historical Park)
		Though not a financial success, this canal complex was the forerunner of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, on the Maryland side, which carried freight on mule-drawn barges from the 1830's until the 1920's.
		Such early canal systems were not long towpath canals like the later Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, but rather a series of wing dams and sluices to improve existing river channels.
		In the 1830's a spirited race occurred between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, being built from Washington, D.C., and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which started at Baltimore, Md. Their goal was Cumberland, Md., and after that the Ohio Valley.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/founders/sitea32.htm (1767 words)

	Looking Inside Virginia - Great Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was home to George Washington's dream canal, named the Patowmack Canal, beginning in the 1800's and was used to transport products down the Potomac River on flatbeds.
		He believed that by building canals, trade between the east and the Ohio Valley would begin, thus uniting the country by mutual interest.
		The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company bought the canal in 1828 and expanded it's potential by connecting Washington to the west.
	members.aol.com /moonchikn/day1.html (314 words)

	GORP - Great Falls Park, Virginia, Adventure, Travel, Outdoor Recreation, Trips, Tours
		The Patowmack Company was formed in 1784 to construct a series of five canals to make the river navigable.
		During the 26 years that the canal system was in operation, flour, corn, whiskey, tobacco, furs, iron ore, and timber ware poled down the river on flatboats from as far away as Cumberland, Maryland, which was a market center in the Allegheny Mountains.
		The C&O; Canal was one of the first "highways" to the west, but it was soon superseded by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which could carry larger loads faster and less expensively than the canal barges.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/va_great.htm (688 words)

	Virginia maritime museums - maritime museum websites
		Patowmack Canal: (VA) The Patowmack Canal project at Great Falls, VA, was originally proposed by George Washington to link the tidewater communities with the interior.
		The Patowmack Company was formed in 1784 to construct five canals along the river to make it navigable.
		Virginia Canals and navigations Society: (VA) The Virginia Canals and navigations Society primary focus is on the James River Batteau is a flat bottomed boat which was used to transport tobacco from areas of Central Virginia to Richmond during the late 1700's.
	www.maritimemuseums.net /VA.html (1169 words)

	History of Great Falls Park
		In 1785 the Patowmack Canal Company was formed, funds were acquired, and construction began.
		For 26 years the canal operated lifting and lowering river boats loaded with cargos of corn, wheat, and rye flour, pig iron, tobacco, pork, beef, cast iron stoves and more.
		Considered to be the most significant engineering feat of the 18th century in America, the ruins of the Patowmack Canal may still be seen here at Great Falls Park.
	www.scienceviews.com /parks/gfhistory.html (500 words)

	The Civil Engineering Portal - Hydraulic Engineering - Canals
		An article published in the December, 1994 issue of Construction Briefings which surveys virtually all of the warranties which may be made by a construction contractor or a design builder during the course of a project, written for construction industry professionals as well as lawyers.
		Dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the historic Middlesex Canal.
		This list mainly concerned with waterways whose primary aim was navigation and with the monuments that formed each line of waterway.
	www.icivilengineer.com /Hydraulic_Engineering/Canals (233 words)

	North American Canals
		Wallace Venable's canals and inland waterways in the United States.
		Canals of the United States and Canada, as they were in 1906
		The canals listed below are those I believe to be of interest for either pleasure boating or for historical reasons.
	www.canals.com /northam.htm (307 words)

	Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		One of the first to see the benefits of connecting the Potomac to the Ohio River was George Washington, who in 1785 chartered the Patowmack Company to extend the navigability of the Potomac further North.
		By 1850 the canal had only reached Cumberland, when it was decided to not go farther.
		Today the CandO canal is the least altered canal left from the great western expansion age of the United States.
	www.ce.jhu.edu /mdcive/CandO.htm (235 words)

	The Patowmack Canal 1785-1828
		As early as 1754, George Washington envisioned a system of river and canal navigation along the Potomac River to reach the fertile Ohio Valley.
		To bypass the falls, rapids and other impediments to navigation the Potowmack Canal Company constructed five skirting canals around impassible sections of the river.
		Small, raft-like boats, poled by hand with the help of the river currents carried furs, lumber, flour and farm produce to Georgetown.
	www.nps.gov /choh/History/Patowmack.html (146 words)

	Potomac River - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The 1859 siege of Harper's Ferry along the river's right bank was a precursor to numerous epic battles of the American Civil War in and around the Potomac and its tributaries.
		The Patowmack Canal was intended by George Washington to connect the tidewater near Georgetown with Cumberland, MD.
		The CandO Canal operated along the banks of the Potomac in Maryland from 1850 to 1924 and also connected Cumberland to Washington, DC.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=59308 (729 words)

	USGS: The River and The Rocks (Trail Log-Virginia)
		Cross old Patowmack Canal and walk to nearest overlook at the brink of the falls.
		The narrow valley that you face in crossing the stream was man made, an early attempt to provide an outlet for the Patowmack Canal.
		The forest from near the base of the hill to the Patowmack Canal is typical of areas that had heavy land use.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/grfa/sec6.htm (1960 words)

	Towpath Topics - October 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The prism of the canal in Charlestown, Somerville, Medford and Winchester had been built-over early in the mid 19th century and was not accurately known.
		The 1980 "Middlesex Canal Heritage Park Feasibility Study" of the Industrial Archaeology Associates, recommended that old maps and deeds should reveal the location of the canal in these areas and that they should be included in the National Register to preserve the history of the canal.
		The first long canal in the United States, it was dug by hand for 27 miles and included 20 locks, plus aqueducts, bridges and landings as it passed through towns such as Woburn on its way from Charlestown to present-day Lowell.
	www.middlesexcanal.org /towpath/towpathtopicsOct2006.htm (7850 words)

	Great Falls National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1785, George Washington formed the Patowmack Company to built a canal and locks for navigation around the falls, to facilitate commerce to the Ohio country frontier.
		Some of the canal and a lock have been preserved and can be viewed.
		The ruins of Matildaville, a small eighteenth-century village associated with the hoped of commercial success of the canal, are also visible.
	seewashingtondc.net /gfalls.htm (140 words)

	Amazon.com: "Patowmack Company": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A company was chartered for this purpose, known as the Patowmack Company, with Washington as its president.
		He purchased shares in the Patowmack Company and looked forward to the day when his factory would be connected by water with the principal markets of the...
		His `Patowmack Company', organized in 1785, built short `skirting' canals to bypass rapids on the river, but never achieved substantial success.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Patowmack-Company (553 words)

	Patowmack Canal & G.F. N. Park: Virginia Is For Lovers
		Patowmack Canal and G.F. Park: Virginia Is For Lovers
		The Patowmack Canal, one of the earliest canals built in America, is located in Great Fall National Park.
		This 800-acre park has views of the falls, 15 miles of hiking trails, and 5 miles of trails for horseback and biking.
	www.virginia.org /site/description.asp?AttrID=14256 (87 words)

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