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Book Synopsis The Delaware Canal by : Marie Murphy Duess
Download or read book The Delaware Canal written by Marie Murphy Duess and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vault aboard a hinge boat with Marie Duess as she nimbly navigates the historic waters of the Delaware Canal. Any ramble along the now-serene Pennsylvania waterway will show you why its beauty inspired so many famous brushstrokes. But only on a voyage with Duess will you dock at hidden places that doubled as underground railroad stops and Prohibition-era speakeasies and witness the inventive genius of Josiah White and the instinct and muscles of the endearing mules that hauled the nation into the Industrial Revolution. By journey's end, you will be reluctant to part with your newfound boatmates after looking into the hopeless eyes of five-year-old mine laborers and listening to the rousing choruses of boat captains who poured a hearty lifetime into steering coal from Easton to Bristol.
Book Synopsis The Delaware and Raritan Canal by : Linda J. Barth
Download or read book The Delaware and Raritan Canal written by Linda J. Barth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly one hundred seventy years, the Delaware and Raritan Canal has meandered across the narrow waist of New Jersey through bustling cities, suburban towns, and rural landscapes. One of the most successful towpath canals in the United States, the Delaware and Raritan carried more tonnage in 1866 than the famous Erie Canal. Transporting mainly anthracite coal, the Delaware and Raritan also stimulated industries as diverse as Roebling's wire-rope factory in Trenton, Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals in New Brunswick, and Fleischmann's Distillery in East Millstone. Today, as the centerpiece of the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, the canal provides the people of central New Jersey with both a water supply and a premier recreational facility.The Delaware and Raritan Canal introduces you to this manmade waterway through some two hundred historical photographs and postcards. In these pages, discover the locks, aqueducts, and machinery that enabled the waterway to transport military men and supplies between New York and Philadelphia during three wars. See how inventor John Holland used the canal to deliver his Holland VI submarine to Washington for its naval trials and how luxury yachts, including J.P. Morgan's Tarantula, cruised the waterway. The Delaware and Raritan Canal documents a historical and recreational gem in the heart of New Jersey.
Book Synopsis The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work by : Linda J. Barth
Download or read book The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work written by Linda J. Barth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal by :
Download or read book The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Delaware Canal by : Robert J. McClellan
Download or read book The Delaware Canal written by Robert J. McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal by : David Allen Berry
Download or read book A History of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal written by David Allen Berry and published by Landmarks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad by : Matthew M. Osterberg
Download or read book The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad written by Matthew M. Osterberg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania at Carbondale to the Hudson River in New York near Kingston, the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company and the Gravity Railroad transformed long tracks of wilderness into thriving economic areas. Conceived as an inexpensive way to transport anthracite coal, the canal began hauling loads in 1828 to the Hudson River, where barges to New York City took over. A leader in the technologies of the time, the canal company used the first telegraph system in America, and when Delaware & Hudson engineer Horatio Allen ran the locomotive Stourbridge Lion in Honesdale, he became the first to run a commercial steam locomotive on tracks in the Western Hemisphere. The Delaware & Hudson Canal was privately funded, and when stock was offered for sale in 1825, it soon became the first American company capitalized at $1 million. The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad uses fascinating vintage photographs to tell an amazing piece of American history. It shows the mules, the canal boats, the locomotives, and the men who ran this technological wonder, boasting one hundred eight locks over one hundred eight miles, plus four suspension aqueducts built by John A. Roebling of Brooklyn Bridge fame. The Gravity Railroad is shown as well, hauling coal from Carbondale to Honesdale over the Moosic Mountains, a rise of more than one thousand feet. The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad tells the story of an American industrial masterpiece.
Author :Joshua GILPIN (Director of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :144 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (19 download)
Book Synopsis A memoir on the rise, progress, and present state of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, accompanied with original documents and maps by : Joshua GILPIN (Director of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.)
Download or read book A memoir on the rise, progress, and present state of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, accompanied with original documents and maps written by Joshua GILPIN (Director of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.) and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chesapeake & Delaware Canal by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book Chesapeake & Delaware Canal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Delaware Canal Journal by : Clayton P. Yoder
Download or read book Delaware Canal Journal written by Clayton P. Yoder and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coal Boats to Tidewater by : Manville Burton Wakefield
Download or read book Coal Boats to Tidewater written by Manville Burton Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reaching Tidewater by : Noreen F. Moore
Download or read book Reaching Tidewater written by Noreen F. Moore and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, as the Civil War tears some families apart, twelve-year-old Anna joins her entire family--and even helps drive the mules--on a journey down the Delaware Canal, hauling a load of coal from Easton to Bristol, Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis Chesapeake and Delaware Canal by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book Chesapeake and Delaware Canal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Report on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal by : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company
Download or read book General Report on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal written by Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Waterway by : Ralph D. Gray
Download or read book The National Waterway written by Ralph D. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Collection of the Laws Relative to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal by : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company
Download or read book A Collection of the Laws Relative to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal written by Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Paddler's Guide to the Delaware River by : Gary Letcher
Download or read book A Paddler's Guide to the Delaware River written by Gary Letcher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry Hudson explored the Delaware River in 1609, he dubbed it “one of the finest, best, and pleasantest rivers in the world.” Today, those same qualities make the Delaware one of the most popular rivers for recreational use in the United States. Although in places a near-wilderness, the Delaware is easily accessible to millions of residents. On any summer day there may be thousands of people rushing down its exciting rapids or lazing through its serene eddies. A Paddler’s Guide to the Delaware River is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to experience the Delaware River in a kayak, canoe, raft, or tube—or, for that matter, an automobile or an armchair. Reading the book is like travelling down the river with an experienced guide. It charts the non-tidal Delaware 200 miles from Hancock, New York, to Trenton, New Jersey, describing access points, rapids, natural features, villages, historical sites, campgrounds, outfitters, and restaurants. The Delaware comes alive as the author introduces some of the people, places, events, and controversies that have marked the river from earliest times to the present day. Completely revised, the third edition offers: An overview of the river including watershed, history, place names, paddlecraft, safety, and fishing. The River Guide: ten sections that can each be paddled in one day (about 20 miles), with a mile-by-mile account of rapids, access, natural features, historic sites, and other features. All new maps, with names for virtually every rapid, eddy, and other river feature, plus detailed diagrams for routes through even the most severe rapids. Features in the River Guide highlight the people, events, natural history, and communities that define the river experience, such as Tom Quick, the infamous “avenger of the Delaware”; the mysterious migration of eels, the battle over Tocks Island Dam; and many others. Appendices of Important Contacts, Outfitters and Campgrounds, River Trip Checklists, and more. Whether you are a novice out for an afternoon float, a seasoned adventurer on an overnight expedition, or a resident fascinated by the lore of the Delaware Valley, this book is an invaluable guide.
