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The Chesapeake Ohio Canal Pathway To The Nations Capital
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Book Synopsis Canals For A Nation by : Ronald E. Shaw
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.
Book Synopsis Breaking the Appalachian Barrier by : John Hrastar
Download or read book Breaking the Appalachian Barrier written by John Hrastar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback. It took more than a century to break the mountain barrier and open the west to settlement. In 1751 a private Virginia company pioneered a road from Maryland to Ohio, challenging the French and Indians for the Ohio country. Several wars stalled the road, which did not start in earnest until after Ohio became a state in 1803. The stone-paved Cumberland Road--from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia--was complete by 1818 and over the next 30 years was traversed by Conestoga wagons and stagecoaches. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--the first general purpose railroad in the world--started in Baltimore in the 1820s and reached Wheeling by 1852, uniting east and west.
Download or read book The National Road written by Robert Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Washington, the Nation's Capital by : William Howard Taft
Download or read book Washington, the Nation's Capital written by William Howard Taft and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the National Capital from Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act: 1790-1814 by : Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
Download or read book A History of the National Capital from Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act: 1790-1814 written by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Photographer's Path written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of images will take you on a pictorial journey through the National Parks of the Nation's capital.
Book Synopsis National Capital Parks for All Seasons by : United States. National Park Service
Download or read book National Capital Parks for All Seasons written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Internal Improvement by : John Lauritz Larson
Download or read book Internal Improvement written by John Lauritz Larson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders' revolutionary republicanism.
Book Synopsis The Early Republic and Antebellum America by : Christopher G. Bates
Download or read book The Early Republic and Antebellum America written by Christopher G. Bates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 1453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Book Synopsis The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal--pathway to the Nation's Capital by : Thomas F. Hahn
Download or read book The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal--pathway to the Nation's Capital written by Thomas F. Hahn and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Power on the Hudson by : Robert D. Lifset
Download or read book Power on the Hudson written by Robert D. Lifset and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty of the Hudson River Valley was a legendary subject for artists during the nineteenth century. They portrayed its bucolic settings and humans in harmony with nature as the physical manifestation of God's work on earth. More than a hundred years later, those sentiments would be tested as never before.In the fall of 1962, Consolidated Edison of New York, the nation's largest utility company, announced plans for the construction of a pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant at Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River, forty miles north of New York City. Over the next eighteen years, their struggle against environmentalists would culminate in the abandonment of the project. Robert D. Lifset offers an original case history of this monumental event in environmental history, when a small group of concerned local residents initiated a landmark case of ecology versus energy production. He follows the progress of this struggle, as Con Ed won approvals and permits early on, but later lost ground to environmentalists who were able to raise questions about the potential damage to the habitat of Hudson River striped bass. Lifset uses the struggle over Storm King to examine how environmentalism changed during the 1960s and 1970s. He also views the financial challenges and increasingly frequent blackouts faced by Con Ed, along with the pressure to produce ever-larger quantities of energy. As Lifset demonstrates, the environmental cause was greatly empowered by the fact that through this struggle, for the first time, environmentalists were able to gain access to the federal courts. The environmental cause was also greatly advanced by adopting scientific evidence of ecological change, combined with mounting public awareness of the environmental consequences of energy production and consumption. These became major factors supporting the case against Con Ed, spawning a range of new local, regional, and national environmental organizations and bequeathing to the Hudson River Valley a vigilant and intense environmental awareness. A new balance of power emerged, and energy companies would now be held to higher standards that protected the environment.
Book Synopsis A History of the National Capital from Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act by : Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
Download or read book A History of the National Capital from Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act written by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Activities in the National Capital Parks by :
Download or read book Activities in the National Capital Parks written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Historic Hiking Trails by : Steve Rajtar
Download or read book Historic Hiking Trails written by Steve Rajtar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 900 hiking trails in the United States take hikers along routes or past sites of historical importance and offer commemorative embroidered patches or other souvenirs of the outing. These trails allow hikers to gain a new appreciation for history and actually experience it, instead of only reading about it--and have something to show for their hike. The first comprehensive guide to those trails, this work covers routes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia as well as interstate trails. The book categorizes each as historic, meaning that it played some significant role in history; historical, meaning that it takes the hiker by or into buildings or sites that have some relationship to a significant person or event, but do not themselves figure in history; nature or scenic, because of the wildlife or scenery available along the way that can be viewed along with the historical site; or recreational, meaning that the trail was established for the long-distance hiker and history buff. Each entry also tells who the trail's sponsor is, if alternate means of transportation are allowed, location, length, route, type of terrain, what type of awards are given and any associated costs, registration requirements, and sites along the trail.
Book Synopsis A Study of the Park and Recreation Problem of the United States by : United States. National Park Service
Download or read book A Study of the Park and Recreation Problem of the United States written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
