Swains Lock
Swains Lock and lock house are part of the 184.5-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal that operated in the United States along the Potomac River from the 1830s through 1923.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: lock and lock keeper’s house located in Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
- Also known as: “Lock 21”, “Lock 21 (Swains Lock)”, “Lockhouse 21”, “Oak Spring Lock”, and “Swains Lockhouse”
- Address: 10700 Swains Lock Road, Potomac, MD 20854
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Falls and Great Falls Tavern.
Great Falls
Waterfall
Great Falls is a series of rapids and waterfalls on the Potomac River in the state of Maryland 14 miles upstream from Washington, D.C. As the border between the states of Maryland and Virginia generally follows the low-water line on the Virginia side, the… Great Falls is situated 2½ miles south of Swains Lock.
Great Falls Tavern
Tourism office
Great Falls Tavern is a historic building in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the United States. Located at mile 14.3 along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath, it is today used by the National Park Service as one of its five visitor centers in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Great Falls Tavern is situated 2 miles south of Swains Lock.
Bedfordshire Neighborhood Park
Park
Photo: Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bedfordshire Neighborhood Park is situated 2 miles northeast of Swains Lock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Potomac and Travilah.
Potomac
Potomac is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 47,018.
Travilah
Town
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Travilah is a United States census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is 17.28 square miles located along the north side of the Potomac River, and surrounded by the communities of Potomac, North Potomac, and Darnestown—all census-designated places. Travilah is situated 3 miles north of Swains Lock.
Great Falls
Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Falls in Virginia, within the United States of America. It's a suburb outside the DC beltway. Nearly all the businesses are found at either end of Walker Road.
Swains Lock
- Categories: lock and lock keeper’s house
- Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.03133° or 39° 1′ 53″ northLongitude
-77.24336° or 77° 14′ 36″ westElevation
167 feet (51 metres)Levels
1Operator
C&O Canal TrustOpen location code
87F42QJ4+GMOpenStreetMap ID
way 137401488OpenStreetMap feature
building=historic
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In Other Languages
“Swains Lock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Swains Lock”
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