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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was commenced at Georgetown on July 4th 1828 under Chief Engineer Benjamin Wright. By 1850, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company was led by President James M. Coale, with directors William A. Bradley, Henry Daingerfield, Wm. Cost Johnson, John Pickell, George Schley, and Samuel P. Smith, Clerk Walter S. Bringgold, Treasurer Lawrence J. Brengle, and Maryland State Agents Samuel Sprigg, Allen B. Davis, Wm. T. Goldsborough, Tench Tilghman, and John Van Lear.
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