WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY (WESTERN MARYLAND ROOM)
100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740

Entry #1

Author: C&O Canal Association.
Title: C&O Canal Association Newsletters, Along the Towpath.
Description: Loose newsletters.
Summary: Issues of Along the Towpath, the newsletter of the C&O Canal Association, from April 1980 to the present.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #2

Author: Davies, William E.
Title: William E. Davies Collection.
Description: 40 archival boxes.
Summary: The collection contains research materials collected by William E. Davies in anticipation of publication of a comprehensive work on the geology and engineering structures of the C&O Canal. Included are photographs, notes, drawings, postcards, geological and other research materials on every aspect of the canal. The collection is in the process of being organized and inventoried and thus is not currently available to the public.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #3

Author: Davies, William E.
Title: The Geology and Engineering Structures of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Master copy of an unfinished work held in bound volume entitled “C&O Canal, Davies.”
Description: Bound volume.
Summary: The master copy of the extant, unfinished version of William E. Davies’ detailed and comprehensive survey of the geology and structures of the C&O Canal. The author died before completion of research.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #4

Author: Various.
Title: William O. Douglas Collection.
Description: 2 collections: collection of original materials and the “Justice Douglas C&O Canal Collection,” photocopies of the original materials organized into 13 bound volumes.
Summary: The collection is divided into two parts. The first collection contains original materials pertaining to Justice William O. Douglas and his 1954 hike along the C&O Canal. The second part of the collection consists of photocopies of the original materials that have been organized into 13 volumes entitled “Justice Douglas C&O Canal Collection”:
Vol. 1 = Table of contents; Correspondence.
Vol. 2 and 3 = Correspondence.
Vol. 4 = Correspondence; Planning; Logistics; Statements; Articles; Congressional Items.
Vol. 5 = Newspaper Clippings.
Vol. 6 and 7 = Photographs.
Vol. 8 = C&O Canal National Historical Park Commission; Misc.
Vol. 9 = Pamphlets and Periodicals.
Vol. 10 and 11 = Books.
Vol. 12 and 13 = Official Studies and Reports.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #5

Author: Frantz, William W.
Title: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trip of the New “Rudder Grange,” August 23, 1894.
Description: Photocopies of manuscript. Photocopied 1976. Owned by Hilda E. Cushwa.
Summary: Description of the author’s travels on the C&O Canal.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #6

Author: Szabo, Joseph.
Title: A Tour Report of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. 1965.
Description: Typewritten manuscript and photographs.
Summary: Description of the author’s travels on the C&O Canal.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

NEWSPAPERS

Entry #7

Author: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Title: News Clippings, 1954-1969.
Description: Newspaper clippings.
Summary: Bound collection of newspaper clippings from 1954-1969 compiled by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #8

Author: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Association.
Title: News Clips of Interest to Members.
Description: Bound volume of photocopied newspaper clippings.
Summary: Photocopies of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to the C&O Canal.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #9

Author: Zeller, Ellen Ardinger, compiler.
Title: C&O Canal: [Scrapbook Containing Newspaper Clippings on Justice William O. Douglas’s 1954 Hike and Other Memorabilia].
Description: 1 vol., unpaged. 47 cm. Illustrated.
Summary: Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other memorabilia related to Justice William O. Douglas’s 1954 hike along the C&O Canal.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

VERTICAL FILES

Entry #10

Author: Various.
Title: C&O CANAL (HISTORIC). Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials on the C&O Canal. Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, historic postcards, and 2 original shipment receipts. Handwritten letters: 1836-1839, correspondence between Ingle of the C&O Canal Company and Beatty of Hagerstown, among others. Promissory bank note: $5.00 note, No. 1158, issued by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company in Washington to J. Fillebrown, Jr., on Aug. 9, 1840. Four copies of government document: U.S. Congress, Senate, Memorial of the Corporation of the City of Washington, Remonstrating Against the Surrender to the State of Maryland of the stock held by that Corporation in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 26th Cong., 1st sess., 11 March 1840. Government document: U.S. Congress, House, Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the Ohio River, 43rd Cong., 1st sess., 14 April 1847. C&O Canal Company report: Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company to the Stockholders, June 5th, 1872 (Frederick, MD, “Maryland Union” Office: Charles Cole, printer, 1872).
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #11

Author: Various.
Title: DAVIES COLLECTION. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing photographs and prints, most of Williamsport and Harpers Ferry.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #12

Author: Various.
Title: C&O CANAL. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing notes, brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and photocopies of newspaper clippings, articles, postcards, and photographs pertaining to the C&O Canal.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #13

Author: Various.
Title: CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, photographs, photocopies of historical newspaper clippings, copy of “National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form,” and copy of “Wilcox & Stoughton vs. Wm. & M. Byrne Arbitration,” March 11, 12, 13, 1835.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #14

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #1]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, photographs, National Park Service structural reports, drawings, newsletters, “C&O Canal Association Meeting Remarks” (1982), and issues of the C&O Canal National Historical Park newsletter, The Towline. Copy of Report of Justice Douglas–Washington Post Hiking Trip Along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, U.S. National Park Service, March 20-27, 1954. Copy of September 24, 1875, letter to A. P. Gorman, President of the C&O Canal Board, from Wm. E. Merrill, Major Engineers & Bot. Col. (U.S. Engineers Office). Copy of Howard Zahniser, ed., “The C&O Canal Hike,” The Living Wilderness 48 (Spring 1954).
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #15

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #2]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes academic essays and term papers (University of Maryland), National Park Service 1995 publication “Towpaths-to-Trails,” National Park Service “Discover the C&O Canal Activity Book,” copies of historic newspaper clippings, copy of “Boats Lieu (?) Docket.” Magazine article: Ross Holland, “A Canal to Open the West,” Valleys of History, vol. 1, no. 2 (summer 1965): 29.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #16

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #3]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical File containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes reports, notes, academic papers of University of Maryland students, newspaper clippings, maps of the canal, newsletters, and “Boundary Map – Proposed Potomac National River” (1968). Book/map collection: William T. Clague, A Collection of Maps of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Washington, DC: American Youth Hostels, Potomac Area Council, 1963). Publication: William E. Davies, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towing Path, 1981. Government document: Congressional Records, Proceedings and Debates of the 91st Congress, 2nd session, vol. 116, no. 207, December 22, 1970.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #17

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #4]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, and a manifest of coal shipped by Cumberland Coal & Iron Co. from 1856. Also includes 5 original documents from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company of accounts and bills of receipt of goods listing goods and dollar amounts, signed by the company superintendent and president; 4 are dated 1872, the fifth is dated 1874; most mention shipping to and from Cumberland and Georgetown.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #18

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #5]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes National Park Service publications and Historic Structure Reports, photocopies of historic newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, newsletters, and a copy of Ross Holland, “A Canal to Open the West,” Valleys of History, vol. 1, no. 2 (summer 1965): 29.
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #19

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #6]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes National Park Service brochures and pamphlets, 2001 C&O Canal Calendar, photographs of “Catoctin – Lander,” additional photographs, and photocopies of historical newspaper clippings. Government report: Edwin C. Bearss, The Bridges, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Monument, Historic Structure Report, Part II, Historical Data Section, Historic Structure Report Series (Washington, DC: U.S. National Park Service, 1968). Article: Robert J. Kapsch, “Benjamin Wright and the Design and Construction of the Monocacy Aqueduct,” in vol. 19, Canal History and Technology Proceedings, ed. by Lance Metz (Easton, PA: Canal History and Technology Proceedings, 2000). Article: Robert J. Kapsch, “The Rehabilitation of the Monocacy Aqueduct of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park,” in International Conference Preservation of the Engineering Heritage: Gdańsk Outlook 2000 (Gdańsk, Poland: Technical University of Gdańsk, 1999).
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #20

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #7]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes magazine articles, photographs, photocopies of historic newspaper clippings, National Park Service Reports, newspaper clippings, brochures and booklets. Published thesis: Timothy R. Snyder, “I hope they will get away soon”: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Federal Authorities during the U.S. Civil War (Shippensburg, PA: Shippensburg University, 1999). Booklet: Lee and Barbara Baron, Barron’s Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Directory (Sharpsburg, MD: Barron’s, 1972). Booklet: 184 Miles of Adventure: Hiker’s Guide to the C&O Canal (Hagerstown, MD: Baltimore Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, 1970). Copy of C&O Canal Company report: Report from the President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to the Legislature of Maryland (Annapolis: Jonas Green, printer, 1831). Copy of C&O Canal Company report: Speech of Mr. C. F. Mercer, on the Subject of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, delivered in the Convention of Delegates, held at the City of Washington, November 7, 1823 (Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton, printer, 1823). Copy of C&O Canal Company report: By-Laws, Rules, and Regulations; in Force on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1st April, 1851, Together with the Rates of Toll and Distances from Place to Place, Forms of Way-Bill, Permit, &c., &c., &c. (Frederick, MD: D. Schley and T. Haller, 1851). Copy of C&O Canal Company report: First Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to the Stockholders, in General Meeting, June 1, 1829 (Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton, printer, 1829).
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

Entry #21

Author: Various.
Title: [Unlabeled #8]. Vertical File.
Description: Vertical File.
Summary: Vertical file containing materials pertaining to the C&O Canal. Includes maps, National Park Service reports, term papers and student reports, articles, and C&O Canal National Historical Park Annual Reports of 1976, 1978, 1979, 1991, 1994. Booklet: Thomas F. Hahn, Towpath Guide to the C&O Canal, Section One: Georgetown (Tidelock) to Seneca, 2nd ed., rev. ed. (York, PA: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1974). Report in series: George Washington Ward, The Early Development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Project, Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, ed. Herbert B. Adams, series XVII, nos. 9-10-11 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1899).
Location: Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room), 100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740.