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Author : Roy George Finch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Story of the New York State Canals written by Roy George Finch and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes the history of the canal system in the state of New York.
Author : New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Story of the New York State Canals written by New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noble E. Whitford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of the Canal System of the State of New York written by Noble E. Whitford and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516046822
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Erie Canal written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the early nineteenth-century construction of the 363-mile canal connecting Albany and Buffalo.
Author : Susan Peterson Gateley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467154172
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book The New York State Canal System: A History Beyond the Erie written by Susan Peterson Gateley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's unique and majestic canals stretch over 524 miles from Albany to Buffalo and between the southern tier counties of Tompkins and Schuyler to the Quebec border. While much has been written on the nation building Erie Canal of the nineteenth century, much less has covered the third iteration of the waterway, the New York State Barge Canal. Deemed a historic corridor by the Federal Parks system in 2000, the Empire State's canal system has been in continuous operation since 1825, longer than any other man made transportation system in North America. Author Susan P. Gateley reveals the history, beauty and present day state of New York State's grand canal system.
Author : Noble E. Whitford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015966017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book History Of The Barge Canal Of New York State written by Noble E. Whitford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 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 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. 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.
Author : Peter Spier
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1630832235
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Erie Canal written by Peter Spier and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his intricately detailed and historically accurate illustrations, Spier brings delightful new dimensions to the popular folk song.
Author : Richard Garrity
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815601913
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Canal Boatman written by Richard Garrity and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Garrity grew up on his father's boats on the Erie Canal in the early years of this century. From 1905 until 1916, when his father operated boats first in the lumber trade and later for gravel hauling, he was surrounded by the busy life of a now-bygone era in canal boating in Upstate New York. When the Barge Canal System opened in 1918, Garrity began a career that lasted until his retirement as a tug engineer in 1970. This story is chock full of Americana that is not only significant and authentic but engagingly written. Garrity's life and work have been intimately bound up with the famed Big Ditch, which has been referred to in more romantic literature as the "shining ribbon of water." It was a hard but happy life on the waterways of Upstate New York as seen in the text and dozens of illustrations included in this book.
Author : Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340201
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation written by Peter L. Bernstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public investments in American history. In Wedding of the Waters, best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal’s creation within the larger tableau of a youthful America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the Appalachian mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the Atlantic states with the vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as travel was critical to the security and expansion of the Revolution’s unprecedented achievement. Gripped by the same fever that had driven explorers such as Hudson and Champlain, a motley assortment of politicians, surveyors, and would-be engineers set out to build a complex structure of a type few of them had ever actually seen, let alone built or operated: a manmade waterway cut through the mountains to traverse the 363 miles between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. By linking the seas to the interior and the interior to the seas, these pioneers ultimately connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to demonstrate how the canal’s creation helped bind the western settlers in the new lands to their fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews of the American industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic change in Europe. Featuring a rich cast of characters that includes political visionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin van Buren; the canal’s most powerful champions, Governor DeWitt Clinton and Gouverneur Morris; and a huge platoon of Irish and American diggers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.
Author : Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733690102
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New York State Canalway Water Trail Guidebook written by Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York State Canalway Water Trail Guidebook is an indispensable resource for paddlers. This mile-by-mile guide includes launch sites, paddler friendly facilities and amenities, and places of interest for the entire 524-mile NYS Canal System, including the Erie, Champlain, Cayuga-Seneca and Oswego Canals. The guidebook includes site descriptions, paddling day trips, safety information, points of interest both on and off the water, how to paddle through a lock and tips on how to prepare for your trip.
Author : Carol Sheriff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809016051
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Artificial River written by Carol Sheriff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers-to this major environmental, social, and cultural transformation in the early life of the Republic. Winner of Best Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association "The Artificial River is deeply researched, its arguments are both subtle and clear, and it is written with grace and an engagingly light touch. The book merits a wide readership." --Paul Johnson, The Journal of American History
Author : Jack Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137280093
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Heaven's Ditch written by Jack Kelly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history. The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier. Men and women saw God face to face, gained and lost fortunes, and reveled in a period of intense spiritual creativity. Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this "psychic highway" from its opening in 1825 through 1844. "Wage slave" Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, the reader encounters America's very first "crime of the century," a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers.
Author : Brad L. Utter
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438478267
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Enterprising Waters written by Brad L. Utter and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the story of the Erie Canal from its inception to today. One of the largest public works projects in American history, the Erie Canal inspired a nationwide transportation revolution and directed the course of New York and American history. When completed in 1825, the engineering marvel unlocked the Western interior for trade and settlement, boomtowns sprang up along the canal’s path, and New York City grew to be the nation’s most powerful center of international trade. Millions of people poured into New York (and some through it) to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities provided by the canal, influencing settlement and the social, political, and commercial landscapes of America. Produced in honor of the bicentennial of the beginning of construction of the canal, Enterprising Waters—a companion catalog to the New York State Museum’s exhibition of the same name—includes reproductions of objects and images from the collections of more than thirty-five different institutions and individual lenders. It also contains reproductions of fifty-nine works of art used in the companion exhibition “Art of the Erie Canal.” Themes of politics, engineering, commerce, life on the canal, and more are paired with full color images of artifacts, documents, and images to bring this unique American story to life, from its inception to today. “Enterprising Waters is, like the Erie Canal itself, an ambitious achievement. Its spectacular visual images vividly portray the waterway’s material world as well as its artistic legacy, while the accompanying text concisely covers two centuries of Erie Canal history. No matter how much, or how little, readers know already about New York’s artificial waterways, they can learn from (and enjoy!) this beautiful catalog.” — Carol Sheriff, author of The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862 “A fine presentation in words and images of the great project that inspired New York and the nation.” — Gerard Koeppel, author of Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
Author : Nelson Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925 written by Nelson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hudson River Maritime Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467103306
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Hudson River Lighthouses written by Hudson River Maritime Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthouses were built on the Hudson River in New York between 1826 to 1921 to help guide freight and passenger traffic. One of the most famous was the iconic Statue of Liberty. This fascinating history with photos will bring the time of traffic along the river alive. Set against the backdrop of purple mountains, lush hillsides, and tidal wetlands, the lighthouses of the Hudson River were built between 1826 and 1921 to improve navigational safety on a river teeming with freight and passenger traffic. Unlike the towering beacons of the seacoasts, these river lighthouses were architecturally diverse, ranging from short conical towers to elaborate Victorian houses. Operated by men and women who at times risked and lost their lives in service of safe navigation, these beacons have overseen more than a century of extraordinary technological and social change. Of the dozens of historic lighthouses and beacons that once dotted the Hudson River, just eight remain, including the iconic Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor's great monument to freedom and immigration, which served as an official lighthouse between 1886 and 1902. Hudson River Lighthouses invites readers to explore these unique icons and their fascinating stories.
Author : Joseph Alexiou
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479892947
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Gowanus written by Joseph Alexiou and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising history of the Gowanus Canal and its role in the building of Brooklyn For more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, an industrial dumping ground, and a blemish on the face of the populous borough—as well as one of the most important waterways in the history of New York harbor. Yet its true origins, man-made character, and importance to the city have been largely forgotten. Now, New York writer and guide Joseph Alexiou explores how the Gowanus creek—a naturally-occurring tidal estuary that served as a conduit for transport and industry during the colonial era—came to play an outsized role in the story of America’s greatest city. From the earliest Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, to nearby Revolutionary War skirmishes, or the opulence of the Gilded Age mansions that sprung up in its wake, historical changes to the Canal and the neighborhood that surround it have functioned as a microcosm of the story of Brooklyn’s rapid nineteenth-century growth. Highlighting the biographies of nineteenth-century real estate moguls like Daniel Richards and Edwin C. Litchfield, Alexiou recalls the forgotten movers and shakers that laid the foundation of modern-day Brooklyn. As he details, the pollution, crime, and industry associated with the Gowanus stretch back far earlier than the twentieth century, and helped define the culture and unique character of this celebrated borough. The story of the Gowanus, like Brooklyn itself, is a tale of ambition and neglect, bursts of creative energy, and an inimitable character that has captured the imaginations of city-lovers around the world.
Author : Terry K. Woods
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Ohio's Grand Canal written by Terry K. Woods and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a one-volume history of the Ohio and Erie Canal. It chronicles the events leading up to construction, as well as public opinion of the canal system, the modification made to traditional boat designs, and much more.
