![]() I grew up perhaps a quarter mile to the south (right) where the hills softened. The hills beyond rise a couple of hundred feet above the canal level. The view looks east over the terminus operations, including two canal boats, loading and unloading docks, and a lone mule. I snapped this terminus visitor’s center wall mural photograph (below), taken during the Canal’s peak operations well before 1924. Cumberland became its final destination after the enterprise met overwhelming competition from the railroads and ultimately succumbed to brutal flooding from the adjacent Potomac River in 1924. The original Canal planning brought the Canal to this point, and then built it up and over the Allegany front and onward to the Ohio River. ![]() I’ll begin with a view of Cumberland from my September visit. As is my Blog Post pattern, I will focus on Nature, and weave through the essay observations on the interplay of human and natural history. I now post another from visiting the C&O Canal National Historical Park: I offer a few photos and reflections from stopping by the western terminus at Cumberland, Maryland, my home town, and then enjoying an extend hike through the Paw Paw Tunnel and back over its Tunnel Hill Trail. NovemI published yet another, this one from a September visit to the C&O Canal National Historical Park. Add in two more Posts from visiting three National Parks in Kazakhstan. I issued multiple Posts this past summer and fall from July visits to National Parks, Monuments, and Memorials in Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. ![]()
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