Book Description
This is a one-volume history of the Ohio and Erie Canal. It chronicles the events leading up to construction, as well as public opinion of the canal system, the modification made to traditional boat designs, and much more.
Author : Terry K. Woods
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
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This is a one-volume history of the Ohio and Erie Canal. It chronicles the events leading up to construction, as well as public opinion of the canal system, the modification made to traditional boat designs, and much more.
Author : Voice of New York
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Canals
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Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873385220
The people who lived and worked on and alongside the Ohio and Erie canal had a vocabulary of their own. This text lists the terms they used to describe the boats, crews and canals - these have been taken from the official reports of the Ohio Canal Commissioners and the Board of Public Works.
Author :
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Canals
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Author : Boone Triplett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1467112526
A fascinating history of the Ohio and Erie Canal, from a national leader in agricultural output to a recreational resource. George Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio-Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired by the Erie Canal in New York, the State of Ohio began surveying routes in 1822 for its own grand internal improvement project. Completed a decade later, the 309-mile-long Ohio and Erie Canal connected Cleveland, Akron, Massillon, Dover, Roscoe, Newark, Columbus, Circleville, Chillicothe, Waverly, and Portsmouth. Success was immediate, as this vital transportation link provided access to Eastern markets. Within a span of 35 years, canals transformed Ohio from a rural frontier wilderness into the nation's leader in agricultural output and third most populous state by 1860. Railroads marked the end of the canal as an economic engine, but traffic continued to operate until the Great Flood of 1913 destroyed the system as a commercial enterprise. Today, the Ohio and Erie Canal is enjoying a rebirth as a recreational resource.
Author : Walter S. Sanderlin
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Canals
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Author : Jack Gieck
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873383530
This book is a profusely illustrated interpretation of life along Ohio's 19th-century canal system: the Miami & Erie Canal with its multiple feeders in central and eastern Ohio. Gieck recounts the efforts of people involved in the planning and building of the canal system and draws an admiring yet candid picture of the canalers who made their livelihood upon the canal waters. Designed in an oversized format, this beautiful volume will be welcomed by historians and engineers as well as by all those who find in the surviving canals a fascinating symbol of Ohio's heritage.
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
Page : 1688 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher :
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Geography
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1608 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
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