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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal commemorative obelisk

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Southwest: “MARYLAND STATE AGENTS./ SAMUEL SPRIGG,/ ALLEN B. DAVIS, WM. T. GOLDSBOROUGH, TENCH TILGHMAN, JOHN VAN LEAR.”
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Northwest: “CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL./ COMPLETED TO CUMBERLAND./ OCTR. 10TH 1850./ CHIEF ENGINEER/ CHARLES B. FISK.”
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Completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Cumberland, Maryland
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Southeast: CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL/ COMPANY 1850/ President/
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marble
obelisk
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Cumberland, Maryland
Wisconsin Avenue
Georgetown
BENJAMIN WRIGHT
JAMES M. COALE




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Turkish Embassy
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