Recently a photo has emerged on the Internet after much hard work by Historians in beaver County Pa. that shows a possible image of Abraham Lincoln aboard a canal Boat The Jack Boyle which ran thru Beaver
County and into Ohio.
Along the Sandy and Beaver Canal it ran 136 miles and eventually linked to the Erie Canal.
While several members of Lincolns Washington Staff appear to be identified in the Picture
They have not been able to verify it is Lincoln in the picture . But it is highly possible it could be because he was known to travel incognito and quietly so Confederate Operatives could not assassinate or kidnap him.
We know he was in the are a couple times including visiting Pittsburgh and staying over nite at the long Gone Monongahela House Hotel. the bedroom furniture where he stayed was lost for many years and is now on display at the Heinz History Center.
What better way to sneak into an area than canal boat.
So as historians dig we may well have the truth some day.
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