Image: Mill water intake dual for Wilkins Rogers mill on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at 0.98 miles
Description: Another water intake for milling from the C & O Canal, this one at 0.98 miles and is almost under Key Bridge. NPS states it was built between 1900 and 1919. This was for turning a water wheel. Canal sold water to the mills. The NPS site says: The Dual Water Intake - Wilkins Rogers Milling Co., is located at Key Bridge below the Hydroelectric Plant and is a concrete double intake with two 7’ openings that are 6’ high.
Title: Mill water intake dual for Wilkins Rogers mill on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at 0.98 miles
Credit: National Park Service http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=CHOH&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=30
Author: National Park Service, Dept of Interior, US Government
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