C&O Canal Locks 2006

Here are the ruins of Pennyfield House, where President Grover Cleveland stayed to go bass fishing to escape the pressures of Washington.

You can see where the upstairs floor has fallen behind the front doorway.

Supposedly Mrs. Pennyfield once woke him up to ask whether he wanted his eels "skunned" or "unskunned" (he opted for the latter).

The house is in such an extreme state of disrepair that it was decided not to try to restore it.

Instead the woods are slowly retaking it.

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