COMING THIS SUMMER! Experience the life of a C&O Canal locktender as never before.
Have you ever wanted to see the inside of a lockhouse or wondered what it was like to live and work along the canal? Well now you can!
DH WEB has been choosen to design on online reservation system and website for the C&O Canal Quarters Program. Look for the new site to be live near the end of summer 2009.
Canal Quarters offers an extraordinary interpretive opportunity for people of all ages. Beginning in late summer 2009, you can stay overnight in a lockhouse and experience life as it may have been during a bygone era on the C&O Canal. Four lockhouses have been painstakingly rehabilitated and furnished to evoke different eras in the canal's history. Lockhouse 22 and Lockhouse 28 allow you to see what life was like during the establishment and construction of the canal in the 1830s. The furnishings in Lockhouse 49 reflect the period around the turn of the 19th century, toward the end of the canal's operations. And Lockhouse 6 is furnished as it may have been in the 1950s to tell the story of the campaign to preserve the canal led by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
These houses are just a few of the more than 1,300 historic structures in the C&O Canal NHP. They are over 170 years old and listed on National Register of Historic Places. Thanks to a special partnership between the National Park Service and the C&O Canal Trust, they are now open to the public for the first time ever