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An enormous maple tree stands next to the lockhouse ruins on the little island created by the flume, perhaps old enough to have been here when the Confederate wagons rolled past on their way to Antietam.
Lock 26 AYDIN 2008
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An enormous maple tree stands next to the lockhouse ruins on the little island created by the flume, perhaps old enough to have been here when the Confederate wagons rolled past on their way to Antietam.
Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008
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Eventually, he waved his arm dismissively at Terence and went inside the lockhouse.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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And in fact, if a prison is the lockhouse of secrets, it was one.
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And in fact, if a prison is the lockhouse of secrets, it was one.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923
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They moved with an easy motion past the pastoral banks, here and there a villa garden, here and there a rustic inn, and so beneath Chertsey's wooded heights to the level fields beyond, and to a spot where the Thames and the Abbey River made a loop round a verdant little marshy island; and here was the silvery weir, brawling noisily in its ceaseless fall, and the lockhouse, where Mr. Wendover had lodgings.
The Golden Calf 1875
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Sunday night, the family of four was set to stay in an old lockhouse along the Potomac
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Washington, D.C. The president of the C&O Canal Trust, which manages the lockhouse lodging program, said he has been happy with the interest in lodging at the lockhouses.
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Original interviews with former canalers conducted by Park Service employees in the 1970s, and a recent interview with Washington County resident Lula Harsh, who grew up in a lockhouse, provide first hand accounts of life on the canal.
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Original interviews with former canalers conducted by Park Service employees in the 1970s, and a recent interview with Washington County resident Lula Harsh, who grew up in a lockhouse, provide first hand accounts of life on the canal.
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