File:Canal Lock 27 lock house circa early 1960s - Ed Sigafoose.jpg

Summary

Ed Sigafoose, youngest child of Ben Franklin Sigafoose, at the C&O Canal Lock 27 lock house circa early 1960s. The Sigafoose family has a unique connection to both Locks 27, otherwise known as Lock 27, "Spinks Lock" and "Campbell’s Lock", as well as Lock 30 at Brunswick.

Brothers Scoll and Ben Sigafoose both worked for the canal. According to family history courtesy of Bob Day, Scoll tended bar in Knoxville, was a Brunswick policeman (imagine the conflict of interest during Prohibition?), and worked the canal at Lock 30 in Brunswick until the great flood shut it down.

Ben was a couple years older and worked Lock 27 in 1877. All of Ben’s 13 children—11 lived to adulthood--were born in Brunswick except one.

When Ben retired from the B&O, an article in the company magazine claimed he retired from the canal in 1890 and became a B&O machinist in Brunswick. He retired from the railroad in 1922.

(Photo courtesy of Bob Day)