Bowles House

Bowles House. Begun in 1775 as a farmhouse and expanded. The Yates and later Bowles families sold produce to the canal bargemen. Adaptive reuse as the Hancock Visitor Center, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. National Register of Historic Places 66000036 DSC_0588

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal at Hancock, Maryland

September 1st 2022
The first of September was a beautiful day. Not as humid as earlier in the week and a nice warm temperature. A day like this calls for a road trip, and so we were off. The remains of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from Georgetown, DC, to Cumberland, Maryland are a trove of historic sites and displays of 19th century canal engineering. I'd wanted to look at the canal works at Hancock, Maryland, for a ... read more

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