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Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct

 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail, Allegany County, MD, United States of America
 
Information about the place
Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct is a minor waterways place on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Guard Lock No 8 (46.51 miles and 18 locks to the west) and Rock Creek (Junction of the Potomac River with Rock Creek ) (138 miles and 57 locks to the southeast).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Guard Lock No 8 is Indigo Neck Lock No 57; 2.84 miles away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Rock Creek is Sideling Lock No 56; 0.36 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] cliff.: 79  Like many other aqueducts, this one has a waste weir as part of the masonry. The Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct (#8) was begun in 1837. was [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 [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 [Buchanan State Forest] the Great Depression. CCC Camp No. S-52 was built in 1933 on Sideling Hill near Oregon Creek. The young men of the CCC cleared the forest and stream beds [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park] looking downstream. Potomac River is on the right side. Evitts Creek Aqueduct, the final aqueduct on the C&O Canal. The basin at Cumberland, looking downstream [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 [Locks on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] Dam #3 (Harpers Ferry) was opened, Lock 24 was the lock at the Seneca Aqueduct (i.e. Riley's Lock). Guard lock #2 is also 88 feet 5 inches long, making [Bridge to nowhere] 2001, the latter of which owns the section that features the Rays Hill and Sideling Hill Tunnels. A bridge that once carried West Mound Street over I-70/I-71 [Parkesburg station] yard was also located nearby for both track service and to assist with sideling switching. Parkesburg Station once was the westernmost stop for the SEPTA
 
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