Historic Structures Report, Part I - The Great Falls Tavern, Montgomery County, Maryland
Young RW. 1939. Historic Structures Report, Part I - The Great Falls Tavern, Montgomery County, Maryland. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
This document describes the history of the Great Falls Tavern, the largest historic structure on the Maryland shore of the Great Falls of the Potomac. It is located on the eastern bank of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Lock 20. Dating from the first half of the 1800s, the structure has been used as a lock keeper's house, tavern and hotel, private club-house, and general concession for recreation seekers at the Great Falls. The central stone part of the structure was placed under contract by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company in December of 1828 (as Lock House 12) and was enlarged around 1830. This history describes structural changes, uses, names, and individuals associated with the structure.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Young, Roger
- Date of Issue
- 1939-06
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- CHOH , NCR
- Keywords
- accommodation, canal, Canal Company, Civil War, clubhouse, Cromelan House, Crommelin House, fence, grocery store, HABS, hotel, Howard Garrett, lock house 12, lockkeeper, outbuilding, recreation, tavern, W.W. Fenlon
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000148: Great Falls Tavern (000148)