Download or read book Steamboat Owners New York and Long Island Sound written by New York (State). Steamboat Owners and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Owners New York and Long Island Sound written by United States. Congress House and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Owners New York and Long Island Sound Memorial of Sundry Proprietors and Managers of American Steamvessels on the Impolicy and Injustice of Certain Enactments Contained in the Law Relating to Steamboats and Asking to be Restored to the Rights and Privileges which Belong to Other Citizens Engaged in Navigation March 30 1840 Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboats on Long Island Sound written by Norman J. Brouwer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Fulton built the world's first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, but it was not until after the War of 1812 that these vessels entered service along the Long Island Sound. For 127 years, between 1815 and 1942, steamboats provided a link between New York and cities in southern New England, greatly reducing travel time. Steamboats served the Connecticut cities of Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Derby, New Haven, Hartford, New London, Norwich, and Stonington. They also linked New York to the Rhode Island cities of Newport, Bristol, and Providence as well as the southern Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford. The rapid expansion of industries in southern New England gave steamboats the additionally important role of transporting raw materials to mills and factories and their finished products to New York. Rivalries between steamboat services led to the construction of faster, larger, and more elegantly furnished boats, resulting in the "floating palaces" that were some of the largest and most majestic steamboats the world had ever seen.
Download or read book Steamboats on Long Island Sound written by Norman J. Brouwer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Fulton built the worlds first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, but it was not until after the War of 1812 that these vessels entered service along the Long Island Sound. For 127 years, between 1815 and 1942, steamboats provided a link between New York and cities in southern New England, greatly reducing travel time. Steamboats served the Connecticut cities of Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Derby, New Haven, Hartford, New London, Norwich, and Stonington. They also linked New York to the Rhode Island cities of Newport, Bristol, and Providence as well as the southern Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford. The rapid expansion of industries in southern New England gave steamboats the additionally important role of transporting raw materials to mills and factories and their finished products to New York. Rivalries between steamboat services led to the construction of faster, larger, and more elegantly furnished boats, resulting in the floating palaces that were some of the largest and most majestic steamboats the world had ever seen.
Download or read book The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound written by Bill Bleyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt as he built his maritime empire in New York, the Steamboat Lexington eventually became the most prestigious steamship on the heavily trafficked Long Island Sound... But in 1840 a fire broke out on the ship, igniting poorly placed bales of cotton which destroyed the ship in minutes. Emergency rafts sank and rescue boats were unable to reach the ship in time. Only four among the over one hundred and forty on board survived by clinging to bales of cotton. The incident would be the worst maritime disaster in Long Island history. Author Bill Bleyer presents the harrowing story of a ship's journey from glory to tragedy.
Download or read book Salts of the Sound written by Roger Williams McAdam and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1957-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Six Tycoons written by Wyn Derbyshire and published by Spiramus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Jacob Astor - Cornelius Vanderbilt - Andrew Carnegie - John D. Rockefeller - Henry Ford - Joseph P. Kennedy - Even today, long after their deaths, the names of these six men continue to be associated with wealth and power. When they were alive, they dominated their worlds as few men had done before, and few have done since. Now in paperback, this book contains the life stories of six of the richest men who ever lived in America. Their lives offer us windows into ways of life that most of us can only imagine - an opportunity to glimpse times when laws, attitudes, prejudices, and opportunities were very different from today. Their achievements - financial, political, and social - continue to affect us to this day, for good or ill. Additionally, their mistakes still offer important lessons about the acquisition, use, and abuse of wealth and power. And had they not lived, the history of America - and the world - might have been very different indeed.
Download or read book The Long Island Sound written by Marilyn E. Weigold and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the shores of Connecticut and Long Island, New York, the Long Island Sound is one of the most picturesque places in North America. From the discovery of the Sound in 1614, to the adventures of Captain Kidd, to the sinking of the Lexington in the sound in 1840, the Long Island Sound also holds a unique place in American history. The Long Island Sound traces the growth of fishing and shipbuilding villages along the sound to the development of major industrial ports, resort towns, and suburban communities along the sound. Marilyn Weigold discusses the subsequent overcrowding and pollution that resulted from this prosperity and expansion. Originally published in 1974 as The American Mediterranean and long out of print, The Long Island Sound has been updated by the author with a new preface and final chapter describing the Sound in the twenty-first century. In this new edition, Weigold particularly focuses on environmental concerns, and describes more current milestones, like the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, who fought and won in 1995 to set aside 100,000 acres as NY State's first forest preserve; the continuous construction of the Long Island Expressway, with its forty-one miles of HOV lanes; the attempt made by several of Connecticut's coastal cities to reinvigorate urban redevelopment; and the Long Island Sound Study's investigation of toxic substances—both natural and man-made—which continue to contaminate the waterway. Through over 40 stunning photographs and many fascinating stories, The Long Island Sound tells the history of a vastly populated, but underdiscussed, part of America.
Download or read book The Past and the Present of Steam Navigation on Long Island Sound written by Henry Whittemore and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Investigation of the New York New Haven Hartford and Grand Trunk Railroad Agreement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leading American Railway Cases written by Isaac F. Redfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-10 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Download or read book Leading American Railway Cases written by Isaac Fletcher Redfield and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Admiralty Its Jurisdiction and Practice written by Erastus Cornelius Benedict and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1870 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
