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1. HARPEX_000604_03.JPG: In the distance is Maryland. The hill is called Maryland Heights. It seems easy but it's a decent hike. Sign: As the highest ridge surrounding the town of Harpers Ferry, Maryland Heights once bustled with private industry and Civil War occupation. Antietam Iron Works, a major nail producer in the early 1800's, burned the timber of the heights for charcoal to fuel its furnaces and forges. Traces of charcoal hearths and roads remain today as testimony to this industry. Civil War earthworks, stone fortifications, and encampments transformed the mountain into a fortress from 1862 to 185. Today, these former defenses and camps are some of the best preserved Civil War ruins in the United States. Nature has reclaimed Maryland Heights, but hiking these trails offers a look at the weathered and silent ruins of the past.
2. HARPEX_000604_08.JPG: The sign mentions some dates. Keep in mind the picture was taken in June, 2000: Please pardon our appearance. The C&O Canal is open but still under repair. The devastating flood of January 1996 resulted in damage along the length of the C&O canal that will take several years to completely repair. Park staff and volunteers have worked together to reopen the entire park for public use, but many substantial and enduring repairs are still to come. The rewatering of the canal will take place as soon as the repairs to those sections are completed. It is anticipated that the canal boats at Georgetown and Great Falls will operate in the spring of 1997.
3. HARPEX_000604_11.JPG: Debbie Thompson
4. HARPEX_000604_12.JPG: This is where we'd been on Maryland Heights
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2000 photos: Image quality is going to be pretty bad because these are scans of negatives and prints. They were usually taken on a Pentax ME-Super. The scaffolding that was being used on the Washington Monument came down in March so you'll see it disappear this year. In 2000, I took three weeks and drove 10,000 miles across country in my new Saturn station wagon -- taking the northern route through Montana and other places, arriving in San Francisco (a place I'd always wanted to visit), and then returning via a southern route. The cross-country drive meant that I took lots of pictures in a 20 different states (an annual record for me) as well as one foreign country. Too many national parks to mention here but I really wish I had been using a decent digital camera then instead of my old camera. I look back at taken maybe a dozen shots at Mount Rushmore vs what I would take today and I just sigh.
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