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A History of Their Economic Life James Anderson Barnes. Canals . The demand for canals began early in American history . Canal construction , in fact , was a more natural development than road building , for both colonial and trans ...
A History of Their Economic Life James Anderson Barnes. Canals . The demand for canals began early in American history . Canal construction , in fact , was a more natural development than road building , for both colonial and trans ...
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... canal in 1834 brought the first direct commercial communication between the East and the upper Ohio River . Except for the heavy products of the West that could not be profitably shipped over the new waterway , wagon traffic between ...
... canal in 1834 brought the first direct commercial communication between the East and the upper Ohio River . Except for the heavy products of the West that could not be profitably shipped over the new waterway , wagon traffic between ...
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... Canal , completed in 1829 . The canal - building mania spread rapidly to the farm lands beyond the Alleghenies , where feverish efforts were made to join the Great Lakes ( and thus the Erie Canal ) to the inland rivers . Pennsylvania ...
... Canal , completed in 1829 . The canal - building mania spread rapidly to the farm lands beyond the Alleghenies , where feverish efforts were made to join the Great Lakes ( and thus the Erie Canal ) to the inland rivers . Pennsylvania ...
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