The Great American Canals

228 Pages·1904·3.09 MB·English

by  Archer Butler Hulbert

HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME
13
The Great American Canals
BY
Archer Butler Hulbert
With MapsandIllustrations
Volume
I
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
and
The Pennsylvania Canal
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO
1904
COPYRIGHT, 1904
BY
The Arthur H. Clark Company
AI.L RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface ii
I. Introductory 15
II. The Potomac Company .33
. .
III. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
AND its Rival -65
. . .
IV. The Pennsylvania Canal and its
Successo.r .. 169
Appendixes 217

ILLUSTRATIONS
I. Four Routes to the West Frontispiece
II. Map of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal 8i
III. The Cactocin Aqueduct .117
.
IV. Scrip Issued by the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company . . 147
V. A View of the Chesapeake and
OhioCanal (attheentranceof the
tunnel near Cumberland, Mary-
land) 165
VI. Map of Pennsylvania Canal and
Portage Railway 185
. . .
VII. The First American Tunnel (by
whichthePortageRailwaycrossed
the Mountains) .201
. . .

PREFACE
CANALS
played an important part in
the later pioneer movement west-
ward in America. Two mono-
graphs of this series, therefore, are devoted
to the rise and building of three great
canal routes westward, the Chesapeake and
Ohio, the Pennsylvania, and the Erie
canals.
The present volume is devoted to the
Potomac Company and its successor, the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and
finally the Pennsylvania Canal. In each
case the birth and development of the two
great railroad routes which follow these
canals, the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Pennsylvania Railways, is also sketched.
The history of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal is contained in the reports of
the company Hon. Theodore B. Klein has
;
written a very interesting account of the
Pennsylvania canals. The Canals of Penn-
12 PREFACE
sylvania, and the System ofInternal Improve-
ments of the Commonwealth; Mr. William
Bender Wilson has included a fine sketcli
of the Allegheny Portage Railway in his
History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany. To both of these the author is in-
debted for advice and assistance.
A. B. H.
Marietta, Ohio, March i, 1904.
The Great American Canals
Volume
I
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
and
The Pennsylvania Canal