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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilcox, Frank N. (Frank Nelson), 1887-1964
Other Authors: McGill, William A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Canals.
Canals > Ohio > History.
Canals > Ohio > History > Pictorial works.
Ohio.
Pictorial works.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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