• Life on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 1859 [York, Pa. : American Canal and Transportation Center, 1975]

• Achenbach, Joel. The Grand Idea : George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West , Simon and Schuster, 2004.

• Blackford, John, 1771-1839. Ferry Hill Plantation journal : life on the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 4 January 1838-15 January 1839 2d ed. Shepherdstown, W. Va. : [American Canal and Transportation Center], 1975.

• Camagna, Dorothy. The C&O Canal: From Great National Project to National Historical Park, Belshore Publications, 2005.
• C and O Canal Association. Food and Lodging along the Towpath.

• Cotton, Robert. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Through the Lens of Sir Robert Cotton

• Fradin, Morris. Hey-ey-ey, lock! Cabin John, Md., See-and-Know Press, 1974

• Furtney, Charles Tyrconnel: An Antebellum Adventure Along the C&O Canal
  Website for book

• Gutheim, Frederick. The Potomac. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1949.

• Hahn, Thomas F. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock-Houses and Lock-Keepers (ISBN 1-885907-03-6). Lots of illustrations 105 pp. $15.00 postpaid for $15.00 to ACTC PO Box 310 Shepherdstown WV 25443-0310.

• Hahn, Thomas F. C&O Canal An Illustrated History, American Canal and Transportation Center, 1981.

• Hahn, Thomas F. The Chesapeake And Ohio Canal Old Picture Album, American Canal and Transportation Center, 1976.

• Hahn, Thomas F. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: Pathway to the Nation's Capital. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1984.

• Hahn, Thomas F. Towpath Guide to the C&O Canal: Georgetown Tidelock to Cumberland. Shepherdstown, WV: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1985.

• High, Mike. The C&O Canal Companion, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  

• Kapsch, Robert and Kapsch, Elizabeth Perry. Monocacy Aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Medley Press, 2005.

• Kytle, Elizabeth. Home on the Canal Cabin John, Md. : Seven Locks Press, c1983.

• Mackintosh, Barry. C & O Canal : the making of a park Washington : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, History Division, 1991.

• Martin, Edwin. A Beginner's Guide to Wildflowers of the C and O Towpath, 1984.

• Mason-Dixon Council, Boy Scouts of America, 184 Miles of Adventure: Hiker's Guide to the C&O Canal. P.O. Box 2133, Hagerstown, MD 21742, 1983.

• Mulligan, Kate. Canal Parks, Museums and Characters of the Mid-Atlantic, Wakefield Press, Washington, DC, 1999.

• Mulligan, Kate. Towns along the Towpath, 1997. (Available from C &O Association) Here is Chapter 3 about Seneca.

• National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Washington, DC: NPS Division of Publications, 1991.

• Rada, James Jr. Canawlers, Legacy Press, 2001.
  Historical Fiction.

• Rada, James, Jr. Between Rail and River , Legacy Press, 2003.
  Historical Fiction

• Reeder, Carolyn. Captain Kate. Avon Books, 1999

• Rubin, Mary. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Arcadia, 2003.

• Sabatke, Mark. Discovering the C&O Canal, Rockville, Schreiber Publishing, March 2003.

• Sanderlin, Walter S. The Great National Project: A History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1946.

• Stanton, Richard. Potomac Journey, Fairfax Stone to Tidewater, Smithsonian Press, 1993.

• Ward, George W. The Early Development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Project

• Winslow, Barbara. Samantha goes to Georgetown on the C & O Canal

• Wolfe, George "Hooper." I Drove Mules on the C and O Canal, 1969.

You may want to check out the non-profit Parks and History Association, P.O. Box 40929, Washington, DC 20016, 202-472-3083, which sells books, maps and other publications about the Canal in support of the interpretive and management programs of the park. Items may be purchased at most Canal information centers or by mail. Write to them for a free list of titles.

See also the C and O Canal Association Store for some of these titles as well as others.

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