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Tonoloway Creek Aqueduct

 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail, Hancock, Washington County, MD 21750, United States of America
 

Tonoloway Creek Aqueduct carries the M62 motorway over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near to Swansea Embankment.

The Act of Parliament for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was passed on January 1 1888 and 17 thousand shares were sold the same day. Expectations for coal traffic to Newbury never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In 1990 the canal became famous when John Edwards swam through Wolverhampton Embankment in 17 minutes live on television.

Information about the place
Tonoloway Creek Aqueduct is a minor waterways place on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Guard Lock No 8 (59.21 miles and 22 locks to the west) and Rock Creek (Junction of the Potomac River with Rock Creek ) (125.30 miles and 53 locks to the southeast).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Guard Lock No 8 is Irishman's Lock No 53; 5.75 miles away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Rock Creek is Hancock 2 Lock No 52; 0.04 miles away.

There may not be access to the towpath here.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a small aqueduct or underbridge here which takes a stream under the canal.

 
 
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[Aqueducts on the C&O Canal] shortest aqueduct, 50 feet long. Construction on the Tonoloway Creek Aqueduct (#7) began in 1835 and was completed in April 1839.: 7, 21  This aqueduct is an [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] feet (184 meters), it required the construction of 74 canal locks, 11 aqueducts to cross major streams, more than 240 culverts to cross smaller streams [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park] for the Allegheny Division/Four Locks Subdivision of the Canal Tonoloway Creek Aqueduct The canal at Hancock, Maryland Paw Paw Tunnel near Paw Paw, West [Potomac River] Town Creek, Little Cacapon River, Sideling Hill Creek, Cacapon River, Sir Johns Run, Warm Spring Run, Tonoloway Creek, Fifteenmile Creek, Sleepy Creek, Cherry [Potomac River basin reservoir projects] acres (610 ha) of farmland would have been affected. Tonoloway Creek was planned for Tonoloway Creek near Hancock, Maryland. The earthfill dam was to be [Glen Echo Park (Maryland)] because of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the adjacent Washington Aqueduct system, had failed to bring the much anticipated street car service to
 
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