9781531672201: Cape Cod Canal
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1531672205 ISBN 13: 9781531672201
Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

For centuries, the shoals and high winds around Cape Cod turned its waters into a ships' graveyard. In 1623, Miles Standish proposed a shorter, safer passage by building a canal linking Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay, and in 1776, George Washington ordered the first of many surveys. All attempts failed until 1914, when the Cape Cod Canal opened as a private toll canal. The widest sea-level canal in the world, the Cape Cod Canal continues to be an engineering marvel, a vital shipping link, and a summer destination. These rare images from the Nina Heald Webber Collection at Historic New England survey the canal's development from unsuccessful building efforts in the 1800s, through its 1909-1914 construction, and subsequent improvements in the 1930s.

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Verlag
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1531672205
ISBN 13 
9781531672201
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
130
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Osnabrück
Niedersachsen
49078
Deutschland

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