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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Lake Erie And Ohio River Ship Canal: Organization, Reports Of Committees, And Other Papers Approved By The Provisional Committee Of The Chamber Of Com

Lake Erie And Ohio River Ship Canal: Organization, Reports Of Committees, And Other Papers Approved By The Provisional Committee Of The Chamber Of Com

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AgricultureGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354483054
ISBN13: 9789354483059
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the height of America's industrial boom, Pittsburgh looked north to Lake Erie and imagined an unbroken deep-water link to the world. The stakes for trade soared. Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal gathers the official organisation papers and Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce report material that framed one of the boldest Great Lakes canal proposals of the early twentieth century. Prepared by committees of business leaders and engineers, this historical canal report reads as a meticulous inland waterway feasibility study: projected tonnages, competing Lake Erie shipping routes, Ohio River navigation planning, and the strategic promise of joining the Great Lakes Ohio River system into a single commercial artery. It speaks directly to the concerns of early 1900s Pittsburgh industry while standing today as a key primary source for transportation history researchers, students of US inland waterways history, and anyone tracing the long arc of Erie canal history book successors and other civil engineering reference book classics. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. This carefully produced edition offers casual readers a vivid window into the ambitions and anxieties of a city rethinking its waterways, and gives scholars, historians, and collectors a durable reference point in the ongoing story of American infrastructure and inland navigation.

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