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Most viewed - C & O Tow Path Trail
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 WHITES FERRY2777 views
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 BJ's Charge2651 viewsBJ's Charge up Bloody Lane. As you can see bikes are allowed throughout the battlefield.
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 Least We Forget2611 viewsSoldiers of stone stand at Antietam where in one single battle 23,000 casualties were suffered, more Americans than in one single day of battle, before or since.
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 Why we came!2605 viewsThe battle of Antietam was fought at Sharpsburg, MD. along the route of the C & O Canal Tow Path BJ and I are currently riding.
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 Three Deep And A Mile Wide2590 viewsUnion Soldiers marched, three deep along a mile front and into the Confederate guns behind the cemetery wall.

For twenty three thousand Americans the Civil War ended that day in September 1862.
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 Beginning and End2533 viewsCumberland, MD where the Great Allegheny Passage begins and the C&O Tow Path ends.

A truly neat city, especially downtown.

Anywhere I can sit outside, eat good "Q", wash it down with a beer and get BJ stitched up from her latest bike accident, is a good lace to be in the Summertime.
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 Not Allowed2489 viewsPark Ranger just said no motorized vehicles on the Tow Path. Want to know more about this pick-up?

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 Just A Cornfield?2476 viewsIt was just a cornfield until that faithful day of September, 17th 1862, when the blood of twenty three thousand Men forever fertilized the conscience of the greatest nation ever to have been on Earth.
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 Awaiting The Charge2038 viewsAntietam cannon stand awaiting the charge.
     
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