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Join Immersion Days instructor Sue Francisco for a look at how families did laundry in the canal boat days.

Did you know that Lock #8 in Hugh Moore Park was known as the "Laundry Lock"? Boaters would drop off the dirty items when traveling down the canal and pick up the clean items on their return trip. Washing was a family affair at the lock. Besides handling the daily operations of the lock, Mom and girls would wash the items, hang them to dry, fold and separate. Boys gathered river water for the laundry buckets and kept the fire going to heat water for washing and rinsing. Aren't you grateful for today's washing machines?

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