Download or read book Indiana Canals written by Paul Fatout and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the first Indiana canal effort in 1804, this narrative deals with the half century of canal agitation in the valleys of the Wabash and Whitewater rivers. The rising tide of enthusiasm for internal improvements reached flood stage in the mammoth system legislation of 1836, which provided for a network of canals throughout the state, several turnpikes and even a few railroads. The Wabash and Earie Canal was eventually completed to Evansville, and for a brief period flourished as a busy carrier of agriculture and industrial products. The White-water Canal also had its useful moments in a checkered career. However, Indiana went bankrupt before the canals were completed, faced with such a heavy debt that for some years the state floundered in a financial morass. Affected by the vagaries of natural forces, the perversities of human nature, and the competition of early railroads, the rise, and fall of these two waterways and the ineffective Central Canal are chartered in this carefully researched and documented history. Men political and otherwise - governors, legislators, canal officials, citizens with vested interests, and articulate voters - who were involved with the improvements mania are brought to life with all their colorful idiosyncrasies. The youthful, over-confident mood of Indiana at the time, especially in the canal towns exhilarated by internal improvements that were supposed to bring progress and prosperity, is captured in this engaging, anecdotal chronicle.
Download or read book Indiana Canals written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canal Around the Falls of the Ohio written by Indiana Canal Company and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canals Indiana Whitewater Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Whitewater Canal, Whitewater Canal State Memorial, Whitewater Aqueduct at Metamora.
Download or read book Driving the Canals and Rivers Auto Trail written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a wonderful road trip through southeastern Indiana by driving the Canals and Rivers Auto Trail. This delightful auto trail tours through the heart of Franklin and Dearborn Counties. Explore the historic sites of Metamora, Brookville, Lawrenceburg and Aurora, Indiana. Visit the Whitewater Canal State Historic site and then drive along the Whitewater and Ohio Rivers. Tour historic Hillforest Mansion in Aurora, and then return to Metamora through the scenic southeastern Indiana countryside. Driving the Canals and Rivers Auto Trail is an ideal travel guide for this historic and wonderful region. whitewater, canal, road trip, tourism, travel, tourism, guide
Download or read book Canals For A Nation written by Ronald E. Shaw and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
Download or read book Canal around the falls of the Ohio written by Indiana Canal Company and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wabash Erie Canal Notebook II written by Thomas E. Castaldi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indiana Waterways written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orders Rules Regulations and Rates of Toll written by Indiana. Board of Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Indiana Canal Company on the Improvement of the Falls of the Ohio written by Indiana Canal Company and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canals Indiana Indianapolis Central Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis Water Co. Canal and development of the Downtown Canal.
Download or read book Internal Improvements in Early Indiana written by Logan Esarey and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wabash Erie Canal Notebook III written by Thomas E. Castaldi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indiana s Canal Heritage Classic Reprint written by Alvin Fay Harlow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Indiana's Canal Heritage One of the first phases of this growing prosperity is seen in the enthusiasm over canals just as the Erie was being com pioted. The entire stock issue of a new canal corporation, let it be one or two millions or what not, was sometimes fully subscribed and more within a few minutes or hours after the books were opened. To be sure, many of the subscribers made only small payments down and then failed to pay the balance; but many others eagerly invested large sums, oftentheir all, in canal enterprises which sometimes prospered, but which in many cases made small returns or none at all. About 1831 the canal fever was succeeded in the popular mind by a railroad mania. Locomotives had been tried in several places and found to be really practicable. Some men saw or fancied they saw that the railroad was destined to revolutionize transportation and commerce and to supply a new means of building up the wilderness. Stock of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, which at first could hardly be given away, now jumped to 162. When the books of the Paterson and Hudson Railroad were opened, three times the amount of stock available could have been sold, and the price quickly went up to 126. All the shares of the new Catskill Railroad were taken in a few minutes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Whitewater Canal Cambridge City to Ohio River written by Harry Otto Garman and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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