A history of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
By: David A. Berry.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781596298644
Subjects: Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.) -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Canal days; title: Before the canal; title: A short history of canals; title: Surveys and delays; title: There is nothing new in the world; title: 1825 : a pivotal year; title: The early years of a working canal; title: Troubles; title: Passengers and steam; title: Prewar ups and downs; title: War comes to the canal; title: Postwar blues; title: Politics and theft: the 1880s; title: The turn of the century; title: A new vision; title: A new canal; title: The west end of the canal; title: The east end of the canal; title: Bridges; title: Another war; title: A new phase; title: The canal today.