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• Correspondence between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company. : In relation to the disputes between those companies concerning the right of way for their respective works along the Potomac River. (Printed by Wm. Wooddy, no. 6 S Calvert-St., 1830), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, William Wooddy, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 1st session. Rep. No. 228. Ho. of Reps. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, Andrew Stewart, Gales & Seaton, and United States. Congress 1825-1826). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River Canal - 1868 (Argus Co., 1866), by S. H. Sweet and Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River Tide-Water Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Report - 1831 (Gales & Seaton, 1831), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee appointed on the 28th April, 1832, by the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, on the resolution of the General Assembly of Maryland, relative to the joint construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road, between the "point of rocks" and Harper's Ferry : presented to the stockholders in general meeting, June 16, 1832. Read, and ordered to be printed. (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1832), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Richard S. Coxe, and Gales & Seaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. vs. B. & O. RR Co.-- 1832 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1832), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, J. P. Ingle, and Gales & Seaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alexandria Canal Co. - Engineer's report - Mercer - 1832 (s.n., 1832), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Improvements, Charles Fenton Mercer, and United States. Congress House. 1831-1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. President's report - 1840 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1840), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and Charles B. Fisk (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 2d session. [Rep. no. 90.] Ho. of Reps. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1827), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, Charles Fenton Mercer, Gales & Seaton, and United States. Congress House. 1826-1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th ultimo, a report and plans of the survey of a route for a canal from the city of Baltimore to the contemplated Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828), by United States War Department, William Howard, Alexander Macomb, James Barbour, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress 1827-1828). House, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - report of stockholders - 1838 (s.n., 1838), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, George Watterston, and Richard S. Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co. - Stockholders report - First draft - 1839 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1839), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to the legislature of Maryland. (Printed by Jonas Green, 1831), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Jonas Green, Charles Fenton Mercer, and Maryland. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Central Committee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention to the Congress of the United States, January 28, 1828 (Gales & Seaton, 1828), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention. Central Committee, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, and 1826 : Washington Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1823 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1828), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Charles Fenton Mercer, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress 1828-1829). House, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Central Committee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention, and of the Commissioners appointed by the States of Virginia and Maryland, and by the United States, to open books for subscription of stock to the said canal (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by D.C.). Central Committee Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1826 : Washington, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress 1825-1826). House, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, and D.C.) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1826 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 2d session. [Doc. No. 10.] Executive (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by United States War Department, William Howard, Guillaume Tell Poussin, Simon Bernard, Alexander Macomb, James Barbour, John Quincy Adams, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress. House 1826-1827), United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Report of stockholders - 1840 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1840), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Clement Cox, and Gales & Seaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Stewart's speech on the proposed connection of the eastern and western waters (Printed by Edward de Krafft, 1823), by Andrew Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to W.V. Buskirk on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. ([Maryland?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1826 and 1832], 1826), by R. W. (Writer on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal) and William Van Buskirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of a committee of the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company appointed to investigate the subject on raising funds to complete the Canal to Cumberland. (Washington : Committee of the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1842., 1842), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Committee of Stockholders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Engineer's report - 1872 (Luther F. Colton & Co., 1872), by Wm. R. Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The great American canals (The A. H. Clark company, 1904), by Archer Butler Hulbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from J. J. Speed, esq., of Baltimore, to the representatives of Maryland (Printed by Bull & Tuttle, 1844), by Joseph J. Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio canal, Maryland. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1942), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Candid appeal to stockholders C & O Canal, 1832 (s.n., 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of a convention of citizens of the States of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and of the District of Columbia, invoking further aid to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (s.n., 1835), by Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Committee on Internal Improvement, Thomas George Pratt, and Maryland. General Assembly (1834-1835 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio and Ohio and Lake Erie Canals (F. Lucas, jr., J. D. Toy, Print, 1824), by James Shriver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company. : In relation to the disputes between those companies concerning the right of way for their respective works along the Potomac River. (Printed by Wm. Wooddy, no. 6 S Calvert-St., 1830), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, William Wooddy, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baltimore Amer. - Considerations on completion C & O Canal 1844 (Printed by Jos. Robinson, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 1st session. Rep. No. 228. Ho. of Reps. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals and Andrew Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 1st session. Rep. No. 228. Ho. of Reps. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, Andrew Stewart, Gales & Seaton, and United States. Congress 1825-1826). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report, map, and estimate, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Alexandria, in the District of Columbia (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828), by United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message from the President of the United States : transmitting a report from the Secretary of War with that of the Board of Engineers for Internal Improvement, concerning the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio canal. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Abert & Kearney report - 1831 (Gales & Seaton, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two reports of the president to the directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company, on the present state of the finances of the company, and an extension of the navigation of the Potomac to a point nine miles above the town of Cumberland, on a plan consistent with the present charter. (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1832), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Report - 1831 (Gales & Seaton, 1831), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee appointed on the 28th April, 1832, by the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, on the resolution of the General Assembly of Maryland, relative to the joint construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road, between the "point of rocks" and Harper's Ferry : presented to the stockholders in general meeting, June 16, 1832. Read, and ordered to be printed. (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1832), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Richard S. Coxe, and Gales & Seaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Memorial -1832 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1832), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. vs. B. & O. RR Co.-- 1832 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1832), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, J. P. Ingle, and Gales & Seaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal-- report on survey and estimate-- 1832 (s.n.], 1832), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and William Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal CC. - Memorial - 1833 (s.n., 1833), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mercer - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co. 1834 (Gales & Seaton, Print, 1834), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals and Charles Fenton Mercer (page images at HathiTrust)
• 23d Congress, 1st Session. [Doc. No. 392.] Ho. of Reps. (Gales & Seaton, Print, 1834), by United States House of Representatives and Virginia General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Legislation - 1834 (Gales & Seaton, 1834), by United States House of Representatives and Richard S. Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Document 12 (s.n., 1841), by Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Committee on Internal Improvement and Edward A. Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Mr. E.A. Lynch, Chairman] (s.n., 1841), by Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Committee on Internal Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. President's report - 1840 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1840), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and Charles B. Fisk (page images at HathiTrust)
• At head of title: 26th Congress, 1st session. Senate. 277 (Blair & Rives, printers, 1840), by Washington (D.C.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - General estimate - Morris - 1841 (Printed by Rigney and McLanahan, 1841), by Ellwood Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Condition report - 1841 (s.n., 1841), by Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Committee on Internal Improvement and John C. Le Grand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Quarterly report - 1873 (L.F. Colton & Co., 1873), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (GPO, 1875), by United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Transportation-Routes to the Seaboard, and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• 44th Congress, 1st session. House of Reps. Ex. doc. no. 137 ([Washington, 1876), by United States Army Corps of Engineers, W. E. Merrill, William W. Belknap, and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report and opinion of Messrs. James G. Field, M.B. Seawell, and John M. Forbes (s.n., 1877), by Virginia. Governor (1874-1878 : Kemper) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 2d session. [Rep. no. 90.] Ho. of Reps. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1827), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, Charles Fenton Mercer, Gales & Seaton, and United States. Congress House. 1826-1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Engineer's report - Abert - 1828 (Printed by B. Edes, 1828), by W. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th ultimo, a report and plans of the survey of a route for a canal from the city of Baltimore to the contemplated Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828), by United States War Department, William Howard, Alexander Macomb, James Barbour, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress 1827-1828). House, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Convention proceedings 1825-1827 (Printed by Way and Gideon, 1827), by D.C.) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1826 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - report of stockholders - 1838 (s.n., 1838), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, George Watterston, and Richard S. Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co. - Stockholders report - First draft - 1839 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1839), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Elwood Morris report - 1840 (s.n., 1841), by Maryland. Governor (1839-1841 : William Grason), Ellwood Morris, and William Grason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for the collection of tolls, and division of the canal into lock-keepers' districts (Printed by Way & Gideon, 1831), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to the legislature of Maryland. (Printed by Jonas Green, 1831), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Jonas Green, Charles Fenton Mercer, and Maryland. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal - report on completion (Printed, but not published, by Dutton and Wentworth, 1846), by W. H. Swift, Charles B. Fisk, Nathan Hale, Thomas W. Ward, Dutton and Wentworth, and Baring Brothers & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - quarterly report - 1872 (L.F. Colton & Co., 1872), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and Arthur P. Gorman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Engineer's report - 1872 (Luther F. Colton & Co., 1872), by Wm. R. Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - report of Board of Internal Improvement 1826 (L.F. Colton & Co., 1873), by United States. Board of Internal Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Special President's report - 1843 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1843), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Report to Governor - 1843 (Geo. & Wm. Johnston, 1843), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and Michael Cresap Sprigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• 20th Congress, 1st session. Doc. No. 192. Ho. of Reps. War Dept. (Gales & Seaton, 1828), by United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Central Committee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention to the Congress of the United States, January 28, 1828 (Gales & Seaton, 1828), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention. Central Committee, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, and 1826 : Washington Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1823 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1828), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Charles Fenton Mercer, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress 1828-1829). House, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, made the following report (Gales & Seaton, 1828), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• 20th Congress, 1st session. Rep. No. 141. Ho. of Reps. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, Charles Fenton Mercer, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress 1827-1828). House, and D.C.) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1826 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Convention - 1823 (Printed at the office of the Washington Republican, 1823), by D.C.) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1823 : Washington and William Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• 18th Congress, 2d session. [68] (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1825), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, United States. Congress House. 1824-1825), and Maryland. Governor (1822-1826 : Stevens) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 1st session. Rep. No.216. Ho. of Reps. (s.n., 1826), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals and Andrew Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Central Committee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention, and of the Commissioners appointed by the States of Virginia and Maryland, and by the United States, to open books for subscription of stock to the said canal (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by D.C.). Central Committee Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1826 : Washington, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress 1825-1826). House, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, and D.C.) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Convention (1826 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Engineer's report - McNeill - 1826 (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers and William Gibbs McNeill (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19th Congress, 2d session. [Doc. No. 10.] Executive (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by United States War Department, William Howard, Guillaume Tell Poussin, Simon Bernard, Alexander Macomb, James Barbour, John Quincy Adams, Gales & Seaton, United States. Congress. House 1826-1827), United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and Canals, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. - Report of stockholders - 1840 (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1840), by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Clement Cox, and Gales & Seaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal project. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1899), by George Washington Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from J.J. Abert : in reference to the canal to connect the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal with the city of Baltimore. (Publisher not identified], 1838), by John James Abert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great American canals / y Archer Butler Hulbert. (A. H. Clark Company, 1904), by Archer Butler Hulbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coal and iron mines of the Union Potomac Company, incorporated by Virginia, and of the Union Company, incorporated by Maryland : compromising upwards of fifty-six thousand acres of land ... (Printed by John Murphy ..., 1840), by Union Potomac Company and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesapeake and Ohio canal, National Historic Park. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, 85th Congress, 2d session, on S. 77 and H.R. 1145, to establish the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, National historical park, and to provide for the administration and maintenance of a parkway, in the State of Maryland, and for other purposes. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1959), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some considerations on the special report of the president and directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, on the subject of completing the canal to Cumberland, made November 16th, 1843, in a series of letters addressed to John Johnson, Esq., member of the House of Delegates, and published in the "American." (Baltimore : Bull & Tuttle, 1844., 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to W.V. Buskirk on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. ([Maryland?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1826 and 1832], 1826), by R. W. (Writer on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal) and William Van Buskirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sometub's Cruise on the C. & O. Canal: The narrative of a motorboat vacation in the heart of Maryland, by John Pryor Cowan (Gutenberg ebook)

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