A History of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (Landmarks)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596298642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Keith M. White said Five Stars. Very useful little book. Contains some material not seen elsewhere.
Yet this historic waterway almost failed before the first shovel struck earth in 1804. A thousand hands shaped its banks and a thousand ships have traversed the waters of a canal that defined a region. Local historian David Berry tells the fascinating story of the C&D Canal, from the tenacious Gilpin family's sixty-year struggle to open the shipway to the canal's role in the Civil War as a vital path for Union troops and supplies to quickly cross the Delmarva and travel down the Chesapeake.. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal has both provided an important route between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and acted as a secondary and unofficial boundary between the North and South
Berry is a graduate of Muskingum College with a bachelor's degree in psychology and holds a master's in business administration from Miami University. About the Author David Berry has lived and worked in the Lower Susquehanna Valley for a number of years. He is published in the Mariner, Sailing magazine and the Baltimore Sun and is the author of two previous books, Maryland Skipjacks and Maryland's Lower Susquehanna River Valley: Where the River Meets the Bay. He's a resident of Havre de Grace, where he teaches sailing and writes.
David Berry has lived and worked in the Lower Susquehanna Valley for a number of years. Berry is a graduate of Muskingum College with a bachelor's degree in psychology and holds a master's in business administration from Miami University. . He is published in the Mariner, Sailing magazine and the Baltimore Sun and is the author of two previous books, Maryland Skipjacks and Maryland's Lower Susquehann