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The Ohio Canals : Second Edition /
From Cleveland to Portsmouth and Toledo to Cincinnati, two great canals and numerous connections and feeders laced Ohio with a thousand miles of waterways in the years before the Civil War. They were a major force in transforming Ohio from a frontier society to a leading agricultural and commercial...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kent, Ohio :
The Kent State University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wilcox, Frank N. |q (Frank Nelson), |d 1887-1964. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Ohio Canals : |b Second Edition / |c Frank Wilcox ; selected and edited by William A. McGill ; with a new introduction by Lynn Metzger and Peg Bobel. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a Kent, Ohio : |b The Kent State University Press, |c 2015. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword -- Introduction to the second edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- Canal excavation -- Locks and lock building -- About canal boats -- The Ohio and Erie Canal -- From Cleveland to Portsmouth -- The Miami-Erie Wabash Canal -- The Sandy-Beaver Canal -- The Pennsylvania Cross-Cut -- The passing of the canals. | |
| 520 | |a From Cleveland to Portsmouth and Toledo to Cincinnati, two great canals and numerous connections and feeders laced Ohio with a thousand miles of waterways in the years before the Civil War. They were a major force in transforming Ohio from a frontier society to a leading agricultural and commercial state, but they were doomed by the arrival of the railroads. Today, they are all but vanished, except for the preservation efforts of some historical societies. The Ohio canals live again through the eye and hand of artist-historian Frank N. Wilcox. From his years of walking the canal ways and explo. | ||
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