Walking across the the Chesapeake City lock gate

Canal bridges in the Chesapeake City area – circa 1907 – 1949: Walking across the lock gate

Here are two men walking across the lock gate. My grandmother, Geneva Truss Hazel, used to take this short cut by walking across to the North Side like this to visit her sister, Lidia. She told me that she should not have done it because of the danger of falling into the lock. John Trush told me a story about when his father took him across this short cut when John was a little boy. He remembered being frightened when he looked down and saw how deep it was below.