| Author | Houck, Douglas, author.
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| Title | Lake Erie lore and legends : exploration, settlement, and creation of the industrial heartland of America / written by Doug Wayne Houck, photography by Robert Hoffman.
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| Edition | 1st edition. |
| Published | San Antonio, TX : Lammert Incorporated/HPNbooks, Historical Pub. Network, 2016.
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| Description | 160 pages : color illustrated ; 23 cm.
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| ISBN | 9781939300980 |
| ISBN | 1939300983 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-154) and index.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Lake Erie and an elaborate system of canals provided the transportation network that created the Nineteenth Century Industrial Heartland of the United States. New York State s Erie Canal, running from Buffalo to Albany, connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean. The Ohio and Erie Canal connected Lake Erie with the Ohio River. Beginning at Cleveland, it ran up the Cuyahoga Valley to the Portage Summit and Akron. Then it followed the Tuscarawas Valley south to Roscoe and on to Dresden before reaching Portsmouth on the Ohio River. Feeder canals connected it with the Shenango and Beaver Divisions of Pennsylvania s Erie to Pittsburgh Canal. Ohio s Miami and Erie Canal connected Toledo on Lake Erie with Cincinnati on the Ohio River. A feeder canal connected the canal with Indiana s Wabash and Erie Canal. These canals were the highways of the 1830s and 40s. By facilitating commerce, they contributed to the industrial development of the region.
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| Subjects | Erie, Lake.
Erie, Lake -- History.
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| Other Authors | Hoffman, Robert., photographer.
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| LC Card Number | 2016-931666 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 39 X E68 H835 2016
CA-1601842 c.1: Local class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 38789] |
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