Between the 1790s and the coming of the railroads in the 1830s, South Carolina was one of the country's leaders in waterborne transport, constructing more than 2000 miles of canals and waterways linki
"Between 1826 and 1858 the state of Pennsylvania built and operated the largest and most technologically advanced system of canals and railroads in North America-almost one thousand miles of transport
The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway to the West by Robert J. Kapsch is a history of one of the nations first transportation systems. The Potomac Canal was instrumental in uniting a
An illustrated history of America's first transportation network, Canals describes the heyday of American canals, their development, and the varied structures they engendered, from locks and lockhous
In 1790, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson set out to build a new capital for the United States of America in just ten years. The area they selected on the banks of the Potomac River, a spot half
Emory Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil eng
