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Author : Robert J. Kapsch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Potomac Canal written by Robert J. Kapsch and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937213
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Journey on the James written by Earl Swift and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.
Author : Langhorne Gibson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cabell's Canal written by Langhorne Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Swiftwater Hahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885907011
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Alexandria Canal written by Thomas Swiftwater Hahn and published by . This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Gibson Hobbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977952342
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The Canal on the James written by T. Gibson Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed study of the James River and Kanawha Canal, which was begun in 1785 and originally planned to provide inland navigation for commercial boat traffic along the James River to the Ohio River in West Virginia. In addition to chapters on the building of the canal and its impact on Lynchburg, Virginia, this book includes sixty color topographic maps following the canal over the course of approximately 150 river miles in Virginia, from Eagle Rock to Richmond, with photographs and notes on canal structures such as locks, towpaths, tunnels, acqueducts, culverts, and other extant features.
Author : Edward Lorraine
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Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Central Water-line from the Ohio River to the Virginia Capes written by Edward Lorraine and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The River and the Rocks written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Shea
Publisher : Jim Shea
ISBN 13 : 173626060X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Get Up and Ride written by Jim Shea and published by Jim Shea. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2010, brothers-in-law Marty and Jim embark on a cycling trip along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal, a 335-mile trek from their home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Jim's boyhood home in Washington, DC. Chance encounters with colorful local characters and other surprising escapades during five days on the trail make for nonstop laughs. As they travel through forests and along winding rivers, they experience the breathtaking scenery of western Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, exploring early American history while learning more about each other as well as themselves. This true story is for adventurers and cyclists as well as couch potatoes looking for a lighthearted take on friendship and some hilarious fun.
Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813145813
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
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.
Author : Robert J. Kapsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Over the Alleghenies written by Robert J. Kapsch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1826 and 1858 the state of Pennsylvania built and operated the largest and most technologically advanced system of canals and railroads in North America-almost one thousand miles of transport that stretched from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and beyond. The construction of this ambitious transportation system was accompanied by great euphoria. It was widely believed that the revenue created from these canals and railroads would eliminate the need for all taxes on state citizens. Yet with the Panic of 1837, a financial crisis much like boom and bust cycle that ended in 2008, a deep recession fell across the country. By 1858, Pennsylvania had sold all canals and railroads to private companies, often for pennies-on-the-dollar. Over the Alleghenies: Early Canals and Railroads of Pennsylvania is the definitive history of the state of Pennsylvania's incredible canal and railroad system. Although often condemned as a colossal failure, this construction effort remains an innovative, magnificent feat that ushered in modern transportation to Pennsylvania and the entire country. With extensive primary research, over one hundred illustrations, newspapers clippings, and charts and graphs, Over the Alleghenies examines and dissects the infrastructure project that bankrupted the wealthiest state in the Union.
Author : Clarence R. Geier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541023482
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present written by Clarence R. Geier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.
Author : George William Bagby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Canal Reminiscences written by George William Bagby and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Kapsch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730883
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Canals written by Robert J. Kapsch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system.
Author : Alexander Gardner
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War written by Alexander Gardner and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In presenting the Photographic Sketch Book of the War to the attention of the public, it is designed that it shall speak for itself. The omission, therefore, of any remarks by way of preface might well be justified; and yet, perhaps, a few introductory words may not be amiss. As mementoes of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that the following pages will possess an enduring interest. Localities that would scarcely have been known, and probably never remembered, save in their immediate vicinity, have become celebrated, and will ever be held sacred as memorable fields, where thousands of brave men yielded up their lives a willing sacrifice for the cause they had espoused. Verbal representations of such places, or scenes, may or may not have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith. During the four years of the war, almost every point of importance has been photographed, and the collection from which these views have been selected amounts to nearly three thousand.
Author : Jack Temple Kirby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807845271
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Poquosin written by Jack Temple Kirby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807847527
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal written by and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have trie
Author : United States
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Federal and Local Legislation Relating to Canals and Steam Railroads in the District of Columbia, 1802-1903 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
