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The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and thereafter, was actually a combination of four canals: the Miami and Erie Canal from the Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio to Junction, Ohio, the original Wabash and Erie Canal from Junction, Ohio to Terre Haute, Indiana, the Cross Cut Canal from Terre Haute, Indiana to Worthington, Indiana ( Point Commerce ), and the Central Canal from Worthington to Evansville, Indiana.
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This success helped inspire a period of intense canal building, known as Canal Mania.
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** Exostosis is an abnormal bony overgrowth narrowing the ear canal due to frequent, long-term splashing or filling of cold water into the ear canal, also known as surfer's ear.
As a result, fourteen cargo ships known as " The Yellow Fleet " remained trapped in the canal for over eight years.
* The Song Dynasty Chinese engineer Qiao Wei innovates the first known use of the double-gated canal pound lock for adjusting different water levels in segments of the Grand Canal of China.
It also has some afferent fibers that innervate the inner ( canal ) portion of the outer ear, via the Auricular branch ( also known as Alderman's nerve ) and part of the meninges.
Just upstream of the Gauging Lock was a large canal basin, now known as Brentford Lock, from which the canal continues to follow the course of the River Brent through two more locks.
After a 3-mile ( 5-km ) level, the canal descends into the valley of the River Leam by the Stockton flight of ten locks ( often known as ' the Itchington Ten ').
The stretch of the canal which passes through the centre of Leicester known as the ' Mile Straight ' is home to Leicester Rowing Club, a rowing and sculling club formed in 1882.
Ably assisted by Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, Henry reduced the land tax known as the taille ; promoted agriculture, public works, construction of highways, and the first French canal ; started such important industries as the tapestry works of the Gobelins ; and intervened in favor of Protestants in the duchies and earldoms along the German frontier.
The Grand Canal, also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is the longest canal or artificial river in the world.
This canal became known as the Han Gou ( 邗沟 " Han-country Conduit ").
Called ' The Noses ,' because of canal construction, it became known as " the gateway to the West ".
The first known effort to harness the waters was in 1759, when Daniel Joncaire built a small canal above the falls to power his sawmill.
The central avenue containing not a walk or a drive, but the great canal, known as the Long Water, excavated during the reign of Charles II, in 1662.
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The route back from Brooke's position to Dunkirk passed through the town of Poperinge ( known to most British sources as " Poperinghe "), where there was a bottleneck at a bridge over the Yser canal.
This development is known as " Grand Union Village " and incorporates a new canal boat marina.
In 1877, the Martin Brothers set up a ceramics factory in an old soap works next to the canal and until 1923, produced distinctive ceramics now known and collected as Martinware.
A branch of the canal known as Otter Dock was cut between Yiewsley and West Drayton in the years 1876-1879 in order to service Yiewsley's brickworks.
The Romans had improved the navigability of the river by building a dam near Salelles and also by canalising the river as it passed through its marshy delta to the sea ( then as now the canal was known as the Robine.
In the mid-16th century it was decided to build a new structure on the other side of the canal to the side of the palace which would house prisons and the chambers of the magistrates known as the Notte al Criminal.
canal and Wabash
In the 1840s, the Wabash and Erie Canal began to operate and provided even broader shipping opportunities, but the canal favored towns which were on the " right side " of the river ; the canal was on the Fountain County side, and towns like Baltimore dwindled as a result.
It was located along the Wabash and Erie Canal ( the Gronauer Lock of the canal was unearthed during construction of Interstate 469 in the late-1980s, and is now on display at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis ).
The Heyday for the Wabash & Erie Canal was mid 1850s and the canal was closed to traffic around 1870.
At one time, the Wabash and Erie Canal ran through Riley and there are remnants of locks and the canal in several places.
Though located on the opposite side of the river from the Wabash and Erie Canal, Williamsport sought to draw shipping traffic by constructing a short cut-off canal.
The Wabash canal was south of the Maumee until it reached Fort Wayne.
Because of the many turns in the river, the state created several separate canal channels to shorten the journey between the state line and Fort Wayne as part of the Wabash and Erie Canal project during the 1830s.
Between Logansport and Delphi, at mile 176, is one of the only remaining stretches of the Wabash and Erie canal.
The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway.
The Wabash and Erie canal in Indiana.
Continuing down the Wabash to Terre Haute, the canal turns southeast from the Wabash, using several other riverways, until reaching the Ohio River in Evansville.
Here, the canal crossed 5 miles to the Little Wabash River and headed downstream through Indiana.
The Wabash & Erie canal was 4 feet deep and 100 feet wide as this point.
Image: Wabash canal route. JPG | Map of the Wabash & Erie Canal
Here in Delphi, the canal crossed the Wabash from the right bank ( northside ) to the left bank ( southside ).
File: Delphi, Indiana Wabash n Erie Canal. JPG | Water section of the canal in Delphi, Indiana
Between Terre Haute and Worthington, the canal route left the Wabash River and was legally considered to be the Cross Cut Canal.
Image: Scale model of a canal packet, Forks of the Wabash Museum, Huntington, IN. jpg | Except for the draft, this represents an average packet, Forks of the Wabash Museum, Huntington, IN
# Wabash & Erie canal, Lock No. 2 ( Gronauer Lock ), HAER No. IN-74 ; Historic American Engineering Record, Department of the Interior ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; 1994
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