|
|
 |
08-04-2015, 06:21 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: WVa East Panhandle
Posts: 28,642
Likes: 71,142
Liked 81,687 Times in 18,464 Posts
|
|
Paw Paw Tunnel Walk Through
I went for a walk through the Paw Paw tunnel. Thought I'd bring y'all along.
Off we go.
__________________
Keep on Chooglin'
|
|
The Following 15 Users Like Post:
|
BAM-BAM, Cyrano, DeathGrip, jlrhiner, loknload, nicky4968, rags, Rustyt1953, shouldazagged, sophie, sureshotbob, tops, Trooperdan, vonn, vt_shooter |
08-04-2015, 06:40 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: WVa East Panhandle
Posts: 28,642
Likes: 71,142
Liked 81,687 Times in 18,464 Posts
|
|
Edison Film Company from 1917.
__________________
Keep on Chooglin'
|
|
The Following 9 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-04-2015, 07:16 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: houston,texas
Posts: 7,198
Likes: 124,841
Liked 23,177 Times in 5,749 Posts
|
|
Thanks Snubby! It was a nice tour and the Edison film was awesome. I guess I didn't realize you were right on the border of Maryland on the Potomac. How far are you from D.C.?
__________________
Hue 68 noli me tangere
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-04-2015, 07:20 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: WVa East Panhandle
Posts: 28,642
Likes: 71,142
Liked 81,687 Times in 18,464 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by vonn
Thanks Snubby! It was a nice tour and the Edison film was awesome. I guess I didn't realize you were right on the border of Maryland on the Potomac. How far are you from D.C.?
|
I guess about 120, 130 miles or so.
__________________
Keep on Chooglin'
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-04-2015, 07:34 PM
|
|
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Louisville, KY, USA
Posts: 19,336
Likes: 53,737
Liked 38,387 Times in 11,802 Posts
|
|
Fascinating, Snub, thanks. Do you have any idea how long it's been since the canal was last dredged?
Never mind, I can look it up. But that's the kind of stuff that fascinates me.
__________________
Oh well, what the hell.
|
|
The Following 3 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-04-2015, 07:48 PM
|
 |
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: PA.
Posts: 9,773
Likes: 50,901
Liked 44,476 Times in 8,620 Posts
|
|
Thanks for sharing that Snub,,,, if you are that close to Maryland and Washington how close are you to Patauxent River?
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-04-2015, 08:06 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: WVa East Panhandle
Posts: 28,642
Likes: 71,142
Liked 81,687 Times in 18,464 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by loknload
Thanks for sharing that Snub,,,, if you are that close to Maryland and Washington how close are you to Patauxent River?
|
Probably a coupla hundred miles. We're up near the northern end of Maryland.
Isn't the Patuxent River near Chesapeake Bay?
__________________
Keep on Chooglin'
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-04-2015, 08:20 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: WVa East Panhandle
Posts: 28,642
Likes: 71,142
Liked 81,687 Times in 18,464 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by shouldazagged
Fascinating, Snub, thanks. Do you have any idea how long it's been since the canal was last dredged?
Never mind, I can look it up. But that's the kind of stuff that fascinates me.
|
That I don't know.
I like living out in this area, lotsa history.
__________________
Keep on Chooglin'
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-04-2015, 09:24 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Hamilton, Ohio
Posts: 44,935
Likes: 62,105
Liked 191,166 Times in 36,908 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by snubbyfan
That I don't know.
I like living out in this area, lotsa history.
|
Ya got this guy too.(bassist Oz Bach)
__________________
Music/Sports/Beer fan
|
|
The Following 3 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-05-2015, 07:49 AM
|
|
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: PA.
Posts: 9,773
Likes: 50,901
Liked 44,476 Times in 8,620 Posts
|
|
Quote:
snubbyfan,,,
Originally Posted by loknload View Post
Thanks for sharing that Snub,,,, if you are that close to Maryland and Washington how close are you to Patauxent River?
Probably a coupla hundred miles. We're up near the northern end of Maryland.
Isn't the Patuxent River near Chesapeake Bay?
|
Snubby yes it is and right on the tip.
Interesting historical item for that area is that there was a Union Prisoner of War camp there, I have seen no remains of the camp but there is a Confederate Cemetary there which is taken care of by the state. I had forgotten that Maryland was part of the Confederacy during the war?
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-05-2015, 08:54 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: A Burb of the Burgh
Posts: 14,812
Likes: 1,701
Liked 19,932 Times in 8,811 Posts
|
|
We have a place near Meyersdale in Somerset county ( on the Eastern Continental Divide)......we have the 3300 ft "Big Savage Tunnel" about 12 miles away...... part of the 330 mile "Great Allegheny Passage".....rails to trails ........from Pittsburgh to Washington.
Need to take a road trip to Paw Paw!
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-05-2015, 09:40 AM
|
 |
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 9,333
Likes: 34,167
Liked 11,005 Times in 3,967 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by shouldazagged
Fascinating, Snub, thanks. Do you have any idea how long it's been since the canal was last dredged?
Never mind, I can look it up. But that's the kind of stuff that fascinates me.
|
Yes, the history is fascinating. We forget that before the railroads, the canal system was pretty much it for transportation in the interior.
Notice how the path is pretty much "one horse only" through the tunnel. I once lived in Ohio near a preserved section of the Erie Canal. A historic marker in the park indicated where canal barge men would engage in fist fights if they could not amiably resolve who had the right of way and who had to wait. The whole town would turn out to watch. 
__________________
You're shy a few manners.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
