Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-09-25
James RIVER CANAL WAS
| DREAM OF WASHINGTON
-ook Deep Personal Interest
in Connecting Eas,
With The West.
CONTINUED ,ro,n pap. 2

'hhr canal. now tho Chesapeake
M ohio Canal. and the several So
hicd Turnpikcs that were built
rom I'll" West TO the East. on" az
mem. the james River AMI Kauawha
turnpike. mat goes by the White
sulphur Springs on the chcsapca lie
ma ONO hallway, and follows the
id Indian buffalo Trail through
he Allegheny Mountains, over the
iitle and Big Sewcll ranges of Eor-
'ecus scenery. Oh BY the Hawks Mes,
iii. to the knnawha River. and
hence on down the Eanawha
Another OF tn" turnpikes ~ the
taunton and parkersburs Road
hat was a busy thoroughfarc from
stanton at the head Of the beautiful
ihcnand"ah valley OF Virginia. "a
'arkcrsburg, on the Ohio River. The
ransappalachian turnpikcs and the
wO cnn;Ils. III" James River and tho
'otona". went hand in hand and
hnsc public works stand TO-DAY az
Inonuinents to tn" political foresight
II IN" stai"smcn Of their DAG. and to
he bold shill Of engineers. 20 whom
20 difficulties seemed insnrmount-
bic. even when our modern con-
trucn"n machinery was unknown.
heir macnincG wore negro ana a
| nule.
In 1872 uhc General Assembly o..
irgimia "aDpotn,cd commissioners to
nrTcy the head winters OF james
siV"r ANA tn" Great Kanawha to
sccrtain TIA" prac,icability OF on
ending 'hc!r navigation Ia tho baA.
tn" chain OF mountains that Iii
d dc them"
The commissioners unmcd were:
Ohm Marshall, James Breckenridge.
3Ftl!iam l.cwiS. james Mcdowell,
3Fii'iam cIruh RS Andrew Alex
ndor
Written Il. John Mnr.hnu.
In Ia" Library Of lhc state of Viz
mia as a copy ot the report Of ina,
2mmtssi"n. written by Johu MARSHALL.
: tinted IN 1910 Andrew Ai"xurdrr
as tn" surveyor of RnrkhridGc
'"r'F virginia \ copr 90 h.e map
n' mupniod the Marshall ro-
ri ud dated 1919. Is ia the records
tn, Virginia Corporation Coming
OH anl - The only known cxtant
ouj - wax engraved hy James
haokn'a * Son. OF tho PENNSYLVANIA
,cR'inUy az Fine Arts
when John Marshal, s"rvcd on that
omr .ssiou h" had boon chief jas
"a" of thc Surrem" Court uf the
ni'ed states eleven years.
In me report OF Mr Marshrn
rohk n' tn" Ni.ssissirpl THAT
Emrtoa i,solf INTO the Sun II
lor,da Nhich is surrounded ny for
IN territory. SO" report. 1916
.dit'on. pspc Is,
on June 10 lSfs CDlonci F,duart
.'ryn.nc chief engineer ~ the Jnmra
aver nnd lihnowhu Coniary sub.
n.tt"d q" charles : Darlington. Esq
rosli"nt 90 tina; company. report
~ N" 'Iiistorv ~ To-. Jane. river
ui kanawha Canal"
| colonel i."rraiu" ls the "I.duart
.prraiu".' who, a. principal assis-
| ani engineer made tho map 90.
|'hirh llrhograrn copy is presented
. tais society by =. stuart BALDWIN,.
'N' oriGiuai lithograrh. made ny
1:H,nic ard DNrn2vant. % Richmond.
Va r"nrodncni through the generous
htr-ost OF EarrS Frazier. consult
my engineer Of Richmoud. Va is IN
thr archives OF tho chesapeake nui
milo Railway Co. aud Is dated 1851.
IRE tin" OF the man. Il specimen OF
S"Gutful workmanship. is:
Map az tho survey -! the Summit
."veI OF the James River and Ka-
awha Canal. Made in the Year
81 Under tho Direction OF walter
|;wlr chief EngiRc.r. rs Eduard
.orrainc. Principal Assistant En-
SINGER
y most cursory reading OF the map
nd the work thereon projected. must
Garlic even such hold engineering
imagination as that which dreamed
nd planned and. did tho Panama Ca
nal. or the great subway System Of
Manhattan.
The House OF Rurecsses or Vir-
sin!a. in October. 1863 passed an
act providing FOR the clearing the
great fails OF james River. tho River
and the north branch