The name derives from the frequent mills in former times along the canal which took advantage of the decline between Mühlbach and Amper.

The canal took over 9, 000 workers eight years to build.

From 1930 to 1931 the US Army Corp of Engineers survey team of 300 men, surveyed the route of any future canal, called the Forty-Niners route because it followed closely the route that miners took in the 1840s California Gold Rush.

In 1697 the General Court of Massachusetts considered the first formal proposal to build the canal, but apparently took no action.

However, leisure traffic took over, and the canal is now as busy as it ever was, with leisure boating complemented by fishing, towpath walking and gongoozling.

Alfred Edwards, editor of Le Matin, who had taken particular interest in the incident, took Ravel on a seven-week canal trip on his yacht Aimée through the Low Countries in June and July 1905, the first time Ravel traveled abroad.

The horse-drawn wheeled wagons on the Gangway took the form of containers, which, loaded with coal, could be transhipped from canal barges on the Derby Canal which Outram had also promoted.

The Romans took the town in 123 BC and expanded it into an important city, with a canal link to the Mediterranean Sea being constructed in 104 BC.

* In the computer game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, the Qin Dynasty campaign has the player as the head architect of Qin Shi Huang, in charge of overseeing the construction of the capital, the Lingqu canal, the Great Wall, as well as his tomb and the terracotta army, although the game takes liberties with the time frames in which these events actually took place.

After the Foundation took control of the building in 1979, it took steps to expand gallery space ; by 1985, " all of the rooms on the main floor had been converted into galleries ... the white Istrian stone facade and the unique canal terrace had been restored ", and a protruding arcade wing, called the barchessa, had been rebuilt by architect Giorgio Bellavitis.

After the Foundation took control of the building in 1979, it took steps to expand gallery space ; by 1985, " all of the rooms on the main floor had been converted into galleries ... the white Istrian stone facade and the unique canal terrace had been restored " and a protruding arcade wing, called the barchessa, had been rebuilt by architect Giorgio Bellavitis.

In the 1980s, the Imperial Irrigation District took proactive water conservation measures to reduce the flow of unused canal water into the Salton Sea.

A riot took place during the construction of the canal that resulted in several deaths.

The State “ Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company ” took over operations in 1850 and finished the canal and adjoining dam by 1856.

Eventually, the railway company offered to buy the canal, and this was formalised by an Act of Parliament obtained on 16 July 1885, although they actually took over the canal on 1 July.

In 1963 the newly formed British Waterways, which was created by the Transport Act of the previous year, and replaced the British Transport Commission as the statuary body for inland waterways, took over the canal and, in partnership with the Trust and riparian local authorities, restoration work began.

For a while the upper river was managed by a syndicate of seven people, all connected with the canal, and the Canal Company took out a lease of it from 1842 for five years.

Shortly after the canal's opening, the Paisley canal disaster took the lives of 84 people, 52 males and 32 females.

Many people, with the day off work, took the opportunity to travel the short distance of by canal between Paisley and Johnstone.

Competition from the railways took much of the canal's traffic by the end of the 19th century, and most of the canal was abandoned in 1927, the remainder in 1941.

No work took place immediately, but the Stroudwater was eventually opened in 1779, and within two years the shareholders commissioned a survey for a canal from Dudbridge to Cricklade, which would complete the link.

There was mounting ridicule about his scheme and in the event, although the canal opened from Shardlow to near Stafford in 1770, it took eleven years to drive the tunnel.

The next stretch of 11 miles ( 18 km ) on the level takes the canal through the new city, where there is a marina.

A common commercial weight, the Cáopíng ( 漕平 " canal shipping standard ") tael weighed 1. 18 Troy ounces ( 36. 7 g ) of marginally less pure silver.

On May 18, 1826, a geological expedition, led by Amos Eaton and physicist Joseph Henry of the Rensselaerian School ( now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ) through the western part of New York state aboard the canal boat " LaFayette ," encountered flammable coal gas rising from a spring.

Most of the vessels using the canal were wherries, which had a draught of and were capable of carrying between 18 and 20 tons.

In 1926, following a loss of £ 18, 041 the previous year, the Great Western Railway sought to close the canal by obtaining a Ministry of Transport Order, but the move was resisted and the company charged with improving its maintenance of the canal.

At the time, the coalfields at Walsall did not have canal access, and a public meeting was held at Lichfield on 18 August, to discuss an independent link from Walsall to Fradley Junction on the Trent and Mersey Canal, passing through Lichfield.

There is a statue of him ( leaning over his desk ) by James Walter Butler ( bronze, 18 September 1998 ) located in the canal basin by Leicester Row, Coventry, and another by Colin Melbourne ( bronze, 20 July 1990 ) in Lower Bedford Street, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, at the junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Caldon Canal, opposite Etruria Industrial Museum.

A famous civil engineer of pound locks in Europe was the Italian Bertola da Novate ( c. 1410 – 1475 ), who constructed 18 of them on the Naviglio di Bereguardo ( part of the Milan canal system sponsored by Francesco Sforza ) between the years 1452 and 1458.

The plan was implemented on January 18, 1971, despite opposition by city council, and 50, 000 people skated on the canal on the first weekend.

The Transit Booking System, available online, allowing customers who do not want to wait in queue to pay an additional 15 % over the regular tolls, guaranteeing a specific day for transit and crossing the canal in 18 hours or less.

Two other sections of the canal were piped underground: one in Trenton when the Trenton Freeway ( U. S. Route 1 ) was constructed in 1952, and the other in New Brunswick when the Elmer Boyd Parkway Extension ( Route 18 ) was constructed in 1984.

When he was 18, he moved to Detroit, Michigan, and participated in the surveying of the canal route around the rapids of Sault Ste.

One of the most interesting features of this third Welland Canal was the Merritton Tunnel on the Grand Trunk Railway line that ran under the canal at Lock 18.

In 1855, at age 18, Hickok moved to Leavenworth in the Kansas Territory following a fight with Charles Hudson, which resulted in both falling into a canal.

British aircraft bombed the town and aerodrome at El Arish on 18 May and 18 June, and bombed all the Ottoman camps on a front of parallel to the canal on 22 May.

With some representatives within the council wavering, the preservation committee organised a walk along the entire canal on 18 October 1969.

The Grantham Canal is a canal that runs for 33 miles ( 53 km ) from Grantham, falling through 18 locks to West Bridgford where it joins the River Trent.

The 18 locks raised the level of the canal by from the Trent to Grantham.

Traffic declined as the railway companies neglected the canal, and were down to 18, 802 tons in 1905, on which the tolls amounted to £ 242 and an Act of Parliament was passed in 1936, formally closing the canal, though there had been no boat traffic for ten years.

At 18, after extensive testing, he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis ( a narrowing of the spinal canal ), which brought his playing days to an end.

The canal system gave New York State a competitive advantage, helped New York City develop as an international trade center, and allowed Buffalo to grow from just 2, 000 settlers in 1820 to over 18, 000 people by 1840.

Officially named the Chenango Canal Extension, it was for the purpose of " making connection with the Pennsylvania canal system, and thus to complete a route to the vast coal fields in that state, the New York Legislature, on April 18, 1838, passed an act ( chapter 292 ) directing the canal commissioners to cause a survey to be made from the termination of the Chenango canal at Binghamton, along the valley of the Susquehanna, to the State line near Tioga Point, at the termination of the North Branch canal of Pennsylvania, and to cause an estimate of the cost of this continuation to be made.