Curtis' Bay:
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781425506155
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: NEARLY half a century has elapsed since the attention of the merchants of Baltimore was fully directed to the necessity for providing easy and expeditious lines of communication between the city and port, with which they were identified and the then infant West, if they wanted to perpetuate the commercial importance of Baltimore, and neutralise the prejudicial influence to their interests exercised by the public works in Pennsylvania and the Erie canal in New York.