Historic Structure Report, Historical Data - The Seneca Aqueduct, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Unrau HD. 1976. Historic Structure Report, Historical Data - The Seneca Aqueduct, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Denver, Colorado
The Seneca Aqueduct (Aqueduct No. 1) was important to the operation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and represented a major engineering accomplishment of this period. It was the first of eleven masonry aqueducts constructed to carry the canal across the larger tributaries of the Potomac River between Georgetown and Cumberland, Maryland. This report provides administrative and historical data on the structure to provide details for its preservation. The area which included the Seneca Aqueduct was recommended for development as a "national interpretive center" to illustrate the construction, maintenance, and operation of the canal. In the event of that development, this report recommends that the aqueduct be fully restored. Until that decision was made, treatment should be given to prevent further deterioration. A list of payments made by the company for the construction of the Aqueduct, land tract description, and photographs are included.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Unrau, Harlan
- Date of Issue
- 1976-03
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- CHOH , NCR
- Keywords
- canal, Elizabeth Threlkeld, engineering, Georgetown, HABS, Holdsworth and Isherwood, John P. C. Peter, land titles, masonry aqueduct, National Interpretive Center, navigation, quarry, red sandstone quarry, Seneca, wingwall
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 012751: Seneca Creek Aqueduct