A History Lesson For Buttigieg
Infrastructure spending on the C&O Canal
By 1924, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal had long outlived its purpose.
For years, beginning in 1831, the canal had been a cheap, reliable way to ship Allegheny coal down through the mountains, across rural Maryland, to ships docked at the tidewater port in Georgetown lying 184.5 miles to the southeast.
Low, slow barges t…