HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY
24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701

Entry #1

Author: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company Promissory Notes.
Description: Two paper notes.
Summary: Two printed five-dollar promissory notes issued by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company in Frederick to Jacob Markell. The notes are printed with images and the following script: “Nine Months after date THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL COMPANY Promise to pay on Demand at their Office at Frederick, Maryland, to Jacob Markell [signed] or bearer FIVE DOLLARS with Interest from Date.” Both are signed to Jacob Markell by Mr. M[?], clerk, and Francis Thomas (?), President. One note is marked: “No. 1199, Octr 9 1840.” The second is marked: “No. 1236, Jany 9 1841.”
Catalog No.: EPH1643.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #2

Author: Unknown.
Title: Canal de la Chesapeake a l’Ohio. Plan général du tracé et Prefit du Canal.
Description: Photocopy of map.
Summary: Map with explanatory writing in French of the C&O Canal including Frederick County. The photocopy is from an unknown book with the following printed along the top of the pages: “Travaux civils des Etats-Unis. Planche II.”
Catalog No.: M0032.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Entry #3

Author: Unknown.
Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Brunswick, MD.
Description: Copy of photograph.
Summary: Copy of a photograph of the C&O Canal in Brunswick, MD. Original photo is located at the Brunswick Railroad Museum, Brunswick, MD.
Catalog No.: P0343.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #4

Author: U.S. National Park Service.
Title: Monocacy Aqueduct.
Description: 3 (?) photographs.
Summary: Photographs from the U.S. National Park Service of the Monocacy Aqueduct. P0473.1 is an 8” x 12” color photograph c. 1998 with reinforcement bands.
Catalog No.: P0473.1-3.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #5

Author: Moore, Patsy Storm and William.
Title: Photo Collection of Patsy Storm Moore.
Description: 135 photographs and glass negatives.
Summary: Collection of 135 photographs related to the C&O Canal from Patsy Storm Moore presented by her son, William Moore, in March of 2002. Items with catalog numbers beginning at P2005.114 are glass negatives.
Catalog No.: P2005.1-135.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

VERTICAL FILES

Entry #6

Author: Various.
Title: CANALS – American History. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials on the C&O Canal in Frederick County. Contains the following magazine article: Byron Stinson, “The Canal Era,” American History Illustrated, vol. 7, no. 5, (August 1972): 4-11. Also contains photocopies of “A Profile of the Frederick Town Canal”: drawings and plans of the proposed extension of the C&O Canal along the Monocacy River c. 1830. Photocopies courtesy of the Maryland State Archives (MSA SC 1386-12 – MSA SC 1386-20).
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Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #7

Author: Various.
Title: C&O CANAL – Activities. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing photocopies of newspaper articles (most form the Frederick News-Post) and National Park Service brochures on the C&O Canal in Frederick County.
Catalog No.: V0161.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #8

Author: Various.
Title: C&O CANAL – Historic Park. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing photocopies of newspaper articles, National Park Service brochures, photographs cut from a 1991 calendar, and three government documents relating to the C&O Canal. The first government document is: U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, A BILL to establish the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and to provide for the administration and maintenance of a parkway in the State of Maryland, and for other purposes, H.R. 1145, 85th Cong., 1st sess., 3 January 1957. The second government document: U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, A BILL to establish the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and to provide for the administration and maintenance of a parkway in the State of Maryland, and for other purposes, S. 77, 85th Cong., 1st sess., 7 January 1957. The third government document: U.S. Congress, Senate, “Development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park,” Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 91st Cong., 2nd sess., vol. 116, no. 207, 22 December 1970, excerpt from Report No. 91-1512 connected to bill H.R. 19342.
Catalog No.: V0162.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #9

Author: Various.
Title: C&O CANAL – History. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing newspaper articles, brochures, leaflets, magazine publications, copies of photographs, and government documents on the C&O Canal. Photocopies from the National Archives of a drawing from the State Roads Commission of Maryland of “Bridge Approach at Point of Rocks,” Contract No. F. 275-2-527, Plat No. 2922, issued March 9, 1937. Magazine article: Ella E. Clark, ed., “Life on the C&O Canal: 1859,” Maryland Historical Magazine 55 (June 1960): 82-122. Informational pamphlet: “Answers to Most Frequently Asked Questions about the C&O Canal.” Leaflet: “Canals in Maryland,” Wheeler Leaflet on Maryland History, no. 12A, Maryland Grows With the Nation Series, Maryland Historical Society, n.d. Magazine article: Ross Holland, “A Canal to Open the West,” Valleys of History, vol. 1, no. 2 (summer 1965): 29. Memoir: Constant Southworth, “Two 1923 C&O Canal Canoe Trips.” Magazine article: Isabel Robbins Ward, “Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,” Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine (October 1964): 788-790. Magazine article: Elizabeth Kytle, “Life on the C&O,” Country (April 1984): 65. Government document: U.S. Congress, Senate, “Development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park,” Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 91st Cong., 2nd sess., vol. 116, no. 207, 22 December 1970, excerpt from Report No. 91-1512 connected to bill H.R. 19342. Government document: U.S. Department of the Interior, Memorandum for the Press, 12 August 1938.
Catalog No.: V0163.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #10

Author: Various.
Title: C&O CANAL – Flooding. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing photocopies of newspaper articles (most from the Frederick News-Post) on the flooding of the C&O Canal in Frederick County.
Catalog No.: V0164.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #11

Author: Various.
Title: C&O CANAL – Restoration. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing photocopies of newspaper articles concerning restoration of the C&O Canal in Frederick County.
Catalog No.: V0165.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.

Entry #12

Author: Various.
Title: Frederick County Canal – 1828-30 (Proposed). Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing newspaper articles and photocopies of other materials concerning the proposed but never built extension of the C&O Canal to Frederick along the Monocacy River. Photocopy of newspaper article: Frederick-Town Herald, Saturday, August 16, 1828; describes meeting of Frederick citizens to discuss the use of the River Monococy [sic] as a feeder in and of the C&O Canal and gives resolutions of the meeting; signed Geo. Baer, Chairman, and Tm. Shriver, Secretary. Photocopy of newspaper article: “Frederick County Canal Company,” Frederick-Town Herald, Saturday, January 31, 1829; copy of the act to incorporate “The Frederick County Canal Company” as passed by the legislature; abstract of the contents of the act. Photocopy of newspaper article: “Frederick County Canal,” [Frederick-Town Herald?], February 28, [1829?]; announcement of the opening of subscription books for shares of stock in the Frederick Count Canal Company at the City Hotel in Frederick-Town on the first Monday of April next. Photocopy of newspaper article: “Frederick County Canal,” Frederick-Town Herald, Saturday, June 20, 1829; announces arrival of engineer Dr. Martineau to survey for the proposed canal and estimate construction costs. Photocopy of newspaper article: Frederick-Town Herald, Saturday, July 11, 1829; describes application to the City Councils for $500 to make surveys and cost estimates; permission granted. Photocopy of John Martineau’s report published in a local newspaper (Frederick-Town Herald?) in 1830: “Frederick Count Canal, REPORT, Of the Engineer employed, on behalf of the citizens of Frederick-Town, to make a survey and furnish estimates for a Canal from said town to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: To Thomas Carlton [. . .] the Committee appointed to superintend the survey of the Monococy [sic] Valley for a Canal &c. [. . .] Submitted by John Martineau, Frederick-Town, Feb. 23, 1830.” Photocopy of 16-page, handwritten letter to Thomas Carlton, containing the same survey report by John Martineau published in the newspaper (see previous sentence) and a table of cost estimates including canal section, length, other survey information, construction costs, and total costs.
Photocopy of “A Profile of the Frederick Town Canal”: drawings and plans of the proposed extension of the C&O Canal along the Monocacy River c. 1830, courtesy of the Maryland State Archives (MSA SC 1386-12 – MSA SC 1386-20). Photocopy of modern drawing: “Proposed Frederick County Canal – 1830.” Conservation Record Card: 28 Frederick County maps, Recorded for Encapsulation and Restoring, November 10, 1982; Job# HM Kalls (?) 2693916; list of structures and plans for restoration. Photocopy of notes on Walter S. Sanderlin, The Great National Project: A History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1946). Unsigned, undated modern manuscript on the C&O Canal giving a summary of the history of the proposed Frederick County Canal based on the materials (listed above) in this vertical file.
Catalog No.: V0754.
Location: Historical Society of Frederick County, 24 E. Church St., Frederick, MD 21701.