The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal

 

From Wikipedia.

The capture and destruction of the mailboat Dawn took place on this canal.

The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was built by a corporation between 1856 and 1860 to afford inland navigation between the Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound.

It is really two canals located thirty miles apart.  One canal is eight and a half miles and connects the Elizabeth River and North Landing River in Virginia.    The other is five and a half miles long and connects Currituck Sound with the North River in North Carolina.

In earlier posts I wrote about the CSS Beaufort on which Charles K. Mallory, Jr. was stationed used the canal to participate in the Battle of Roanoke Island and then later the Battle of Hampton Roads.

--Old B-Runner