{"id":2039,"date":"1917-01-01T04:46:58","date_gmt":"1917-01-01T04:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2018-02-01T03:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T03:12:19","slug":"video-down-the-old-potomac-on-the-c-a-thomas-edison-film-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/video-down-the-old-potomac-on-the-c-a-thomas-edison-film-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Down the Old Potomac On the C&#038;O Canal; A Thomas Edison Film (1917)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZCw0gcn2r0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b> Down the Old Potomac On the C&amp;O Canal; A Thomas Edison Film (1917) <\/b><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0silent, black &amp; white film from 1917 gives a rare glimpse of the Chesapeake &amp; Ohio Canal, which parallels the Potomac River on the north side, back in the days when it was in working order, with water, locks, gates, towpath, and boats. From 1831 to 1924, the C&amp;O Canal was used to transport goods from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington DC. \u00a0The flood of 1924\u00a0ruined the canal and it was\u00a0abandoned, supplanted by the B&amp;O\u00a0Railroad which had been also\u00a0built alongside\u00a0the Potomac River. Today the C&amp;O Canal towpath has been repurposed as a popular 184-mile-long bike trail, owned by the National Park Service, and easily accessible to Lovettsvillians through the Brunswick train station parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this post, you will love the free monthly newsletter of the Lovettsville\u00a0Historical\u00a0Society &amp; Museum. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.us8.list-manage2.com\/subscribe?u=505152bd0e6e82e1cbc019d3c&amp;id=6f2e3999b0\"><b>Click here to subscribe.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See Also<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/choh\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/choh\/index.htm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bikewashington.org\/canal\/\">http:\/\/bikewashington.org\/canal\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikecando.com\">http:\/\/www.bikecando.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 63px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bicycletimesmag.com\/userfiles\/cocanal-5.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for c&amp;o bike trail\" width=\"412\" height=\"309\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi alignnone\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adventurecycling.org\/default\/assets\/Image\/blog\/On_The_Road\/ACA_C%26O_GAP_498.jpg\" alt=\"c&amp;o bike trail\" width=\"412\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down the Old Potomac On the C&amp;O Canal; A Thomas Edison Film (1917) This\u00a0silent, black &amp; white film from 1917 gives a rare glimpse of the Chesapeake &amp; Ohio Canal,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}