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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Author: A History of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Author: David Allen BerryPublisher: The History Press
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
A thousand hands shaped its banks and a thousand ships have traversed the waters of a canal that defined a region. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal has both provided an important route between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and acted as a secondary and unofficial boundary between the North and South. Yet this historic waterway almost failed before the first shovel struck earth in 1804. Local historian David Berry tells the fascinating story of the C&D Canal, from the tenacious Gilpin family's sixty-year struggle to open the shipway to the canal's role in the Civil War as a vital path for Union troops and supplies to quickly cross the Delmarva and travel down the Chesapeake.
The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work
Author: Linda J. BarthPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Delaware and Raritan Canal connected the Chesapeake Bay with New England ports, allowing a wide variety of vessels to use the waterway and avoid the treacherous Atlantic Ocean. The unusual machinery of the canal--locks, swing bridges, aqueducts, spill gates--is depicted in detail in The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work. The book focuses on many of the businesses that operated along the canal, including farms, food-packing companies, rubber-reclaiming plants, coal yards, quarries, Johnson & Johnson, and Atlantic Terra Cotta. It includes scenic views along this famous waterway, one of the most successful towpath canals in the United States.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. War DepartmentPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
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Category : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Collection of the Laws Relative to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Passed by the Legislatures of the States of Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, Subsequent to the Year 1798
Author: Maryland. General AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
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Category : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
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Category : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The British Invasion of Delaware, Aug-Sep 1777
Author: Gerald J. KauffmanPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304287165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
During the American War for Independence in Augustand September, 1777, the British invaded Delaware aspart of an end-run campaign to defeat GeorgeWashington and the Americans and capture the capitalat Philadelphia. For a few short weeks the hills andstreams in and around Newark and Iron Hill and at Cooch's Bridge along the Christina River were the focus of worldhistory as the British marched through the Diamond State between the Chesapeake Bay and Brandywine Creek.This is the story of the British invasion of Delaware,one of the lesser known but critical watershedmoments in American history.