A partial collection of people, places and events that have made
Chesapeake City the unique and desirable location that it has become today.
The Trials & Tribulations
of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company
and the beginning of Chesapeake City
Click here for the
1828 National Gazette Copy of the C&D Canal Co. Report
Click here
to see how a canal lock works ==>>
www.fodc.org/how-lock-works.html
The U.S. Government purchased the canal from the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company in 1919 for the sum of $2,500,000.
C&D Canal 1919 thru
1960
C&D Canal 1961 thru 1999
C&D Canal 2000 to
Present
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