The same engineer did the Erie canal.....................that is the problem..............DC is so eeeeerie.......if the moskiters won't get cha........the ghosts surely will..............i am nothing if not corny.

Groundbreaking[edit]

The C&O's first chief engineer was Benjamin Wright, formerly chief engineer of the Erie Canal. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on July 4, 1828, attended by U.S. president John Quincy Adams. The ceremony was held near Georgetown, at the canal's eventual 5.64-mile mark near Lock 6, the upstream end of the Little Falls skirting canal, and Dam No. 1.^[16