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Monocacy Aqueduct

 
Nolands-Ferry Road, Tuscarora, Frederick County, MD 21790, United States of America
Address is taken from a point 535 yards away.
 
Information about the place
Monocacy Aqueduct is a minor waterways place on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Guard Lock No 8 (139.63 miles and 47 locks to the west) and Rock Creek (Junction of the Potomac River with Rock Creek ) (44.88 miles and 28 locks to the southeast).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Guard Lock No 8 is Fulton's Lock No 28; 6.90 miles away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Rock Creek is Spink's Ferry Lock No 27; 0.67 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 river under the canal.

 
 
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The Monocacy Aqueduct — or C&O Canal Aqueduct No. 2 — is the largest aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, crossing the Monocacy River just before it empties into the Potomac River in Frederick County, Maryland, USA. The 438 foot (133.5 m) aqueduct was built by three separate contractors between 1829 and 1833 at a cost of US$127,900.

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[Monocacy River] Chesapeake and Ohio Canal crosses over the river at the Monocacy Aqueduct, the largest of the 11 aqueducts on the canal. The river rises in Carroll County, Maryland [Aqueducts on the C&O Canal] an aqueduct, the company records still listed it as a culvert.: 80  The Monocacy Aqueduct (#2) in Frederick County, Maryland is the longest aqueduct on [Navigable aqueduct] aqueduct in the world. Passenger (packet) boat on the Monocacy Aqueduct of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal The wall of the Conococheague Creek aqueduct [Monocacy] tug Monocacy (1905) Monocacy Aqueduct, crosses the Monocacy River near its mouth Monocacy National Battlefield, memorializing the Battle of Monocacy (1864) [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] University Press, 2001. Kapsch, Robert and Kapsch, Elizabeth Perry. Monocacy Aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Medley Press, 2005. Kapsch, Robert [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park] permanently inundated 74 miles of towpath, as well as the Monocacy and Antietam aqueducts. Around 1945, the Corps wanted to remove Dam #8, which would [Battle of South Mountain] his rear, he could carry out an invasion of the Union, wrecking the Monocacy aqueduct, before turning his attention to Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Washington [Monocacy Creek (Lehigh River tributary)] century the spelling became standardized as Monocacy. Lehigh Canal Aqueduct over Monocacy Creek in Bethlehem. Monocacy creek near its confluence with the Lehigh [List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States] headless man haunting the Paw Paw Tunnel, and a ghost of a robber at the Monocacy Aqueduct carrying a lantern. The Horse You Came In On Saloon has been operating
 
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