The project is part of a multiyear effort to preserve and restore the C & O canal in Georgetown. Last year, the Park Service marked the restoration of Locks 3 and 4 on the canal, which were ...

Now, 185 years after the Lady Washington made headlines, and nine years after the C&O Canal in Georgetown last had a boat, craftsmen are building a new one for the legendary body of water that ...

Georgetown Heritage and the park service remain committed to their shared goal of preserving and ensuring the public’s use of that that 1-mile stretch of the C&O Canal that runs from the zero ...

Georgetown Heritage’s Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal boat tours will return for a second season sooner than initially expected. The tours along the Georgetown waterway will resume May 5 ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A huge project to restore the historic C&O Canal in Georgetown recently reached a milestone – water began flowing in certain areas for the first time in about two years.

(Courtesy Georgetown Heritage) There are lingering questions about the future of Georgetown’s C&O canal boat tours, after the National Park Service announced it’s ending its philanthropic ...

You'll soon be able to tour the C&O Canal in Georgetown by boat starting Friday. A new boat will be christened Thursday ahead of the big day. It's been more than a decade since tour boats have run ...

but we continued along the canal to Great Falls, whose massiveness I properly appreciated for the first time. (Without the need to circumvent the churning waters, there likely would have been no C&O.) ...

Officials say the Georgetown section of the C&O Canal will be drained for approximately 30 months to allow for a major restoration of Locks 1, 2, and 5, as well as critical valve and wall repairs.

Ready to experience Georgetown’s charm for yourself? Here's everything you should include in your itinerary. The Chesapeake ...