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  Dating from the 1850s, Lockhouse 8 was once home for a lockkeeper who operated "liftlocks" along the 184.5 mile Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. The locks -- more than seventy in all -- raised and lowered canal boats laden with trade goods as they traveled between Washington, DC and Cumberland, Maryland. The C&O Canal National Historical Park now is a heavily used national park frequented by millions of visitors a year. The Potomac Conservancy, in cooperation with the National Park Service, is renovating Lockhouse 8 into an interpretive and educational facility. The Lockhouse 8 Learning Center will serve as a community meeting place for events such as "Growing Native", an annual watershed-wide seed collection project organized by the Potomac Watershed Partnership, and it will provide a staging area for the Potomac Conservancy's hands-on river and youth education programs, complementing those provided nearby on the Conservancy-owned Minnie's Island Preserve. Also see; |
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