[Gutenberg 41008] • The Great American Canals (Volume 2, The Erie Canal)

Excerpt from The Great American Canals, Vol. 1: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Pennsylvania Canal

The present volume is devoted to the Potomac Company and its successor, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and finally the Pennsylvania Canal. In each case the birth and development of the two great railroad routes which follow these canals, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railways, is also sketched.

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