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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: January 12, 2008
Caption: Eighteenth Century Broad Creek Canal at Want Water - Broad Creek Historic District
Additional Description: View of remains at its connection to the Potomac River. One hundred yards long and constructed in 1749 by Humphrey Batt[s] using slave labor, it facilitated the movement of hogsheads via flatboats from the Broad Creek tobacco inspection station warehouse (established in 1748) to ships moored in the estuary off Broad Creek Landing. It is believed to be the first such canal construction in the English colonies.
Submitted: January 15, 2008, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p13938
File Size: 1.063 Megabytes

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