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Home On The Canal
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Series
- Maryland Paperback Bookshelf Ser.
- Subject
- Railroads / History
- Series
- NY State Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Jersey
- ISBN
- 9780801853289
- Book Title
- Home on the Canal
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Architecture, Transportation, History
- Topic
- Urban & Land Use Planning, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Ships & Shipbuilding / General
- Item Width
- 7.2 in
- Item Weight
- 22 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
About this product
Product Information
This richly illustrated and engagingly written book tells the story of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from its origins in George Washington's decision to link the nation's new capital with the western frontier; through the beginning of construction in 1828 (fatefully, on the same day that the cornerstone of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was set); to the "completion" of the project. Planned to go as far as Ohio and to take twelve years in construction, the Canal company's ambitions were scaled back after 22 years of toil, $14 million in expense, and the bankruptcy of several contractors took them only as far as Cumberland, at the eastern shed of the Alleghenies. Describing in detail how the C&O operated in its heyday, Elizabeth Kytle takes the story through the shut-down of operations in 1924, after the Canal was purchased by its competitor, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the efforts that resulted in its preservation as a National Historical Park in 1971. Enriching this narrative, the book also provides oral history accounts of eleven men and women who worked on or grew up along the banks of the Canal.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801853281
ISBN-13
9780801853289
eBay Product ID (ePID)
557112
Product Key Features
Book Title
Home on the Canal
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Urban & Land Use Planning, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Ships & Shipbuilding / General
Book Series
Maryland Paperback Bookshelf Ser.
Publication Year
1996
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
He396.C5k95 1996
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
Elizabeth Kytle's book contains all the research we've never gotten around to doing. She has transformed the mass of assorted political, financial, and economic data into readable chapters that cover the canal from its conception by President George Washington through 1971 when it became a national historic park., A gliding packet boat of a book that tours the history of the canal's 92 working years... With 54 sepia-toned photographs, Kytle's 'informal history' makes a worthy introduction to the making of the C&O Canal., "A gliding packet boat of a book that tours the history of the canal's 92 working years... With 54 sepia-toned photographs, Kytle's 'informal history' makes a worthy introduction to the making of the C&O Canal." -- Washington Post, "The reminiscences are great... the best ever printed relating to the C & O canal." -- Hagerstown Herald-Mail, ""Elizabeth Kytle's book contains all the research we've never gotten around to doing. She has transformed the mass of assorted political, financial, and economic data into readable chapters that cover the canal from its conception by President George Washington through 1971 when it became a national historic park."", "Elizabeth Kytle's book contains all the research we've never gotten around to doing. She has transformed the mass of assorted political, financial, and economic data into readable chapters that cover the canal from its conception by President George Washington through 1971 when it became a national historic park."-- Potomac Appalachian, "A gliding packet boat of a book that tours the history of the canal's 92 working years... With 54 sepia-toned photographs, Kytle's 'informal history' makes a worthy introduction to the making of the C& O Canal."-- Washington Post
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
95-033629
Dewey Decimal
386/.48/09752
Dewey Edition
20
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