Cultural Landscape Report, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Williamsport, Maryland
Land and Community Associates. 1994. Cultural Landscape Report, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Williamsport, Maryland. Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
In the fall of 1992, the National Park Service developed a scope of work for preparation of a Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) for the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park at Williamsport, Maryland. NPS contracted with Oehrlein & Associates and Land and Community Associates to undertake the project. The CLR would supplement the 1976 General Plan, which discusses treatments for individual structures and buildings but does not address a long-range vision for the park's cultural landscape. The purpose of the CLR is to assist park management in making informed decisions concerning the future use and rehabilitation/restoration of the Cushwa loading basin and related structures from the Conococheague Aqueduct to Lock 44, as well as to determine the cultural landscape impacts of visitor facility development. At the time, the C&O Canal NHP was undertaking a rewatering project at Williamsport, and plans also called for visitor facility development in the area. One of the primary trade routes in the eastern United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the C&O Canal is significant in American industrial, commercial, social, cultural, and transportation history. In addition, the C&O Canal is a significant nineteenth-century example of American canal building during the historic canal era. The canal at Williamsport also has associations with Civil War military history and prominent local entrepreneurs, industrialists, and businesses. Williamsport, along with Cumberland and Georgetown, was a primary center of trade.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Land and Community Associates
- Date of Issue
- 1994
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- CHOH , NCR
- Keywords
- C&O Canal, canal, Civil War, commerce, Conococheague Creek, flood, industry, loading basin, lock, military, Potomac River, railroad, trade, transportation, visitor facilities, Williamsport
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 600278: Williamsport