A report on Pittsburgh and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Fort Pitt Blockhouse, built by the British in 1764, is the oldest extant structure in Pittsburgh.
Map of planned route.
Monongahela River scene, 1857
A boat on the canal, circa 1900-1924
Downtown facade memorializing Pittsburgh's industrial heritage with an image of legendary steelworker Joe Magarac
Canal boats waiting to be unloaded in Georgetown.
Pittsburgh in 1874, by Otto Krebs
Low-angle bird's-eye view of central Washington toward the west and northwest with The Capitol in foreground. The Canal is visible running along the mall.
Burning of Union Depot, Pittsburgh, during the Pittsburgh railroad strike of 1877
C&O Canal in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Pittsburgh in 1903
Boat construction yard in Cumberland, MD
Downtown Pittsburgh and the Duquesne Incline from Mt. Washington
Map of Terminus in Cumberland in the mid 1890s. Yellow dots indicate modern highways as well as current (2013) location of Canal basin.
Pittsburgh's 90 distinct neighborhoods
Register of waybills in the Cumberland Office, in 1858. Each canal boat had to have a waybill, even if empty, for passage through the canal. Fines were levied for lack of a waybill.
Downtown Pittsburgh from Station Square
5 and 10 dollar notes, from C&O Canal company
The Carnegie Library, Museums of Art and Natural History (foreground), Carnegie Mellon University (background)
Floodwaters around Lock 6 in 1936
The North Side
Great Falls feeder culvert (no longer used) indicated by yellow arrow(14.08 mi), and Lock 18 (R).
Bird's-eye view of Pittsburgh, 1902
Boat at Big Slackwater
The Shadyside neighborhood
An informal overflow. The towpath dips, allowing water to flow over it. Note the boards in the background for people to walk on.
Panorama of Pittsburgh, PA from the Duquesne Incline which shows the confluence of the Allegheny (left) and the Monongahela (right) rivers which merge to form the Ohio River (lower left)
Paw Paw Tunnel
ALCOSAN Treatment Plant
Remains of the inclined plane
Map of racial distribution in Pittsburgh, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:
Culvert #30 lets Muddy Branch under the canal
Phipps Conservatory
Repairs at Big Pool
Benedum Center
Mules being fed.
Pittsburgh from the West End Overlook
A steamboat on the C&O Canal. Note the steering wheel and the smokestack on this boat
PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Children tethered to canal boat. This photo was probably taken in one of the Cumberland basins.
Heinz Field, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pittsburgh Panthers (football)
Model interior of a C&O Canal freight boat
Petersen Events Center, home of Pittsburgh Panthers basketball
Recent view of the 9 mile level (between 33 and 34 miles) where the ghosts were reported to haunt.
Palumbo Center, home of Duquesne Dukes basketball
Monocacy aqueduct in 2011, where the ghost of a robber could allegedly be seen on moonless nights
Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix
The Pittsburgh City-County Building, the seat of government of the City of Pittsburgh.
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A Ford Taurus and a Chevrolet Impala belonging to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police
The University of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University
KDKA studios at Gateway Center
UPMC's flagship, UPMC Presbyterian
Allegheny General, the flagship of the Allegheny Health Network
Pittsburgh's numerous bridges visible from the air
I-279
The Steel Plaza subway station
Penn Station was built in 1903

A planned section to the Ohio River at Pittsburgh was never built.

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The Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath connect the city directly to downtown Washington, D.C. (some 335 mi away) with a continuous bike/running trail.

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The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests lie on the eastern slopes of the Alleghenies. The Monongahela NF lies within the central Alleghenies.

Allegheny Mountains

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Part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the Eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less developed eras.

Part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the Eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less developed eras.

The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests lie on the eastern slopes of the Alleghenies. The Monongahela NF lies within the central Alleghenies.
Detail of a French map of 1671. The Alleghenies are in the lower center portion.
The Fry-Jefferson Map (1751) prominently features "The Allagany Ridge of Mountains".
A 1775 map of the Allegheny Plateau and Mountain Range.
Actual and proposed routes of the C&O Canal through the Alleghenies.
North Fork Mountain, West Virginia, looking south
Blue Knob, Pennsylvania, the northernmost 3,000 footer in the Alleghenies.
The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, has catered to spa enthusiasts since 1766.
Shenandoah Mountain, at the easternmost limit of the Alleghenies.
Laurel Mountain, West Virginia, at the westernmost limit of the Alleghenies.
Allegheny Mountain Tunnel, through Allegheny Mountain, services Interstate 76 in Pennsylvania.
New River Gorge, Section of the cliff at Endless Wall cliff.
Germany Valley, a scenic upland valley of eastern West Virginia.
The grand hotel at The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, was built in 1858.
The Blackwater Canyon, a rugged gorge in eastern West Virginia.
A Norfolk Southern train at Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Cheat Canyon, in Coopers Rock State Forest, northeastern West Virginia.
Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia: View from atop Breathed Mountain.
Eastern entrance to the Paw Paw Tunnel on the C&O Canal towpath in Maryland.
Altoona, Pennsylvania, viewed from atop Brush Mountain.

(It followed an earlier Indian and pioneer trail known as Nemacolin's Path.) Braddock Road connected Cumberland, Maryland (the upper limit of navigation on the Potomac River) and the forks of the Ohio River (the future Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal—also begun in 1828, but at Georgetown—was also a public work of enormous economic and social significance for the Alleghenies.

B&O's Columbian crossing the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1949

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

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The first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.

The first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.

B&O's Columbian crossing the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1949
Cornerstone of the B&O, laid July 4, 1828, by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, now displayed at the B&O Railroad Museum
Carrollton Viaduct
Share of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road Company, issued 26. July 1856; signed by Johns Hopkins as president pro. tem.
Advertisement for the Baltimore and Ohio in an 1864 Baltimore city directory, promoting its repairs and reopening at one point during the war.
Table of Cumberland Coal shipped over B&O Railroad and C&O Canal, 1842–1865
Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, during strike in 1877
1876 B&O map
B&O route map of 1891
B&O headquarters building on North Charles Street in Baltimore
B&O stock certificate, 1903
Replacement of retaining wall of B&O in Hazelwood, Pittsburgh, 1906
B&O roundhouse complex, Martinsburg, West Virginia.
The Ellicott City Station near Baltimore, the oldest passenger station in the U.S., is now a museum devoted the B&O's role in the Civil War.
Scenes of the B&O Railroad. Decorative title page for Ele Bowen, Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse, 1855
Twelve and a half cent note issued by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in 1841.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad system map, circa 1961

The railroad faced competition from several existing and proposed enterprises, including the Albany-Schenectady Turnpike, built in 1797, the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

The next day workers in Pittsburgh staged a sympathy strike that was also met with an assault by the state militia; Pittsburgh then erupted into widespread rioting.