Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal at Ottawa Illinois During the 1920 s and Early 1930 s written by John A. Hilliard and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-witness account of the eradication of portions of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Ottawa Illinois, told through personal reminiscenses, photographs, and news stories. Although the Main Canal is now part of the National Heritage Corridor and has been preserved, much of the infrastructure supporting the operation of the Canal and businesses that used it has been lost.This book is in effect two stories: the destruction of the Feeder Canal, the Lateral Canal, the Hydraulic Basin, and the Spillway into the Fox River is the first story. The second story relates how a small, central Illinois city coped with the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930's by instituting public works relief projects. The author's father, Mayor H. J. Hilliard, was instrumental in these efforts. Under his guidance, the City hired local, unemployed men for public works projects designed to improve the city's infrastructure by filling parts of the derelict Illinois and Michigan Canal to create streets and parking areas.
Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal at Ottawa Illinois During the 1920 s and Early 1930 s written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal written by James William Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Illinois written by A. Berle Clemensen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois and Michigan Canal Corridor written by John D. Peine and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The I and M Canal at Ottawa Illinois written by John Hilliard and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Motivation for compiling and writing the report given here is a deep felt desire to preserve as much information as possible concerning the Illinois and Michigan Canal in the immediate vicinity of Ottawa. Being a member of the last generation to know the canal when it was still operational, though in great disrepair and for the most part abandoned, added a personal incentive, and nostalgia and the ever present need to reminisce were the stimulus to undertake this effort."- John A. Hilliard
Download or read book The Historical Source Material in the Illinois and Michigan Canal Office Lockport Illinois written by Robert David Ochs and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documentary History of the Illinois and Michigan Canal written by Illinois. Division of Waterways and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal written by Jim Redd and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merging narration with exhibit-quality photographs—weaving history, nostalgia, and even a touch of romance around good graphic evidence of what the canal has become today—Jim Redd takes us on a highly personal journey down the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it follows the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers from Chicago to La Salle. In order to understand the whole of what the canal means now and what it has meant, Redd looks at and photographs the present, an old ruin of a canal out of use for half of a century. But he also sees the beginning, the time before the glaciers inched south—contemplating the two hundred years when the "ice flowing from the north just balanced the melting loss" when "the moving ice was like a continental conveyer belt, dumping tons of entrained rubble and granite from as far away as the Canadian Shield." He envisions the trappers, travelers, and traders who crossed the terrain—this vast mud lake. He brings back the days when Père Jacques Marquette brought the Jesuit message to the frontier. Redd also tells what the canal did for the region, how it bolstered Chicago from a town of twelve hundred at the time of the 1836 groundbreaking ceremony to a city of seventy-four thousand after six years of operation in 1854. During the peak traffic—from the 1860s through the 1880s—more than five million tons of freight passed through the canal, generating a million dollars in tolls and opening a trade route from the East Coast to the Gulf of Mexico.
Download or read book Report of the Illinois and Michigan Canal written by Illinois. Canal Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ILLINOIS MICHIGAN CANAL A ST written by James William Putnam and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois and Michigan Canal written by David A. Belden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures and histories of canals in northeastern Illinois.
Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal A Study in Economic History written by James William Putnam and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal A Study in Economic History Illinois Centennial Publication written by James William Putnam and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book ILLINOIS MICHIGAN CANAL A ST written by James William Putnam and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal written by George S. Westerman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal written by James William Putnam and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
