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Seneca Aqueduct

Also known as: Seneca Creek Aqueduct

Lock 24: Rileys Lock, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail, Darnestown, Montgomery County, MD, United States of America

Seneca Aqueduct carries a footpath over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near to Lancaster Cutting.

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.

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Seneca Aqueduct is a minor waterways place on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Guard Lock No 8 (160.18 miles and 50 locks to the west) and Rock Creek (Junction of the Potomac River with Rock Creek ) (24.33 miles and 25 locks to the southeast).

The nearest place in the direction of Guard Lock No 8 is Goose Creek River Lock junction (Goose Creek River Lock allowed traffic from the Goose Creek (on the other side of the river) to enter and exit the canal); 8.28 miles away.

The nearest place in the direction of Rock Creek is Riley's Lock No 24; 0.02 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.

	Spink's Ferry Lock No 27	19.88 miles
	Wood's Lock No 26	17.74 miles
	Broad Run Trunk Aqueduct	9.69 miles
	Edward's Ferry Lock No 25	8.52 miles
	Goose Creek River Lock junction	8.28 miles
	Seneca Aqueduct
	Riley's Lock No 24	0.02 miles
	Violette's Lock No 23	0.73 miles
	Inlet Lock No 2 (Seneca Feeder)	0.76 miles
	Pennyfield Lock No 22	3.38 miles
	Swain's Lock No 21	6.58 miles

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Seneca Aqueduct — or Aqueduct No. 1 — is a naviduct that carries the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) over Seneca Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland. The C&O built eleven aqueducts along its 184.5 miles (296.9 km) length. Seneca Aqueduct is a unique structure, not only being the first built, but also the only red sandstone aqueduct on the C&O−and the only aqueduct that is also a lock (Lock 24, or Riley's Lock). It is located at the end of Riley's Lock Road in Seneca, Maryland.

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[Aqueducts on the C&O Canal] the aqueducts.: 81 The Seneca Aqueduct (#1), located in Montgomery County, Maryland, also included a lock built in (Riley's Lock). The aqueduct traverses [Seneca Quarry] the accompanying lock houses, and Aqueduct No. 1, better known as Seneca Aqueduct, constructed from 1828 to 1833. Seneca red sandstone, also known as redstone [Navigable aqueduct] no casualties in this accident. The Seneca Aqueduct was a lift lock as well as an aqueduct. This wooden aqueduct carried the Morris Canal over the Pompton [Seneca Creek (Potomac River tributary)] tributary, Dry Seneca Creek, empties into Seneca Creek west of Darnestown. The creek continues south and passes under Seneca Aqueduct/Riley's Lock (Lock [Riley's Lock] 7 adjacent to Seneca Creek, in Montgomery County, Maryland. The lock is sometimes identified as Seneca because of the Seneca Aqueduct that carried the [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] houses were made from Seneca red sandstone, quarried from the Seneca Quarry, as was Aqueduct No. 1, better known as Seneca Aqueduct. This unique structure [Seneca Historic District (Poolesville, Maryland)] Ohio Canal, including Seneca Aqueduct (Aqueduct No. 1), Lock No. 24 (Riley's Lock), the adjacent lock house; as well as the Seneca Quarry and quarry masters [Roman aqueduct] Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their Republic and later Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns. Aqueduct water supplied [Seneca River (New York)] to the Erie Canal path. The stone Seneca River Aqueduct (Richmond Aqueduct), which carried the canal over the Seneca and Clyde Rivers, opened in 1857 after

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