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Chuck Norcutt
On 5/8/2012 3:20 PM, John Lind wrote:
> Check out some time the construction of The National Road - from Cumberland
> MD to Vandalia IL in the 2+ decades before these canals were constructed - a
> wide macadam highway with deep roadbed and effort made to keep the grade
> within reason for large draught horse and ox drawn wagons - not just a narrow
> dirt trail - also cleared, dug and laid by hand. Most of the original road is
> now US 40 and Alt US 40.
>
> John
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 8, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Paul Braun<pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Nice. You've touched on one of my favorite subjects - abandoned canals. I
>> find them fascinating - and it led me to do more research on the W&E.
>> Didn't know it was almost 500 miles....
>>
>> I'm really studying the Illinois and Michigan right now. There are parts
>> that are gone, parts that are no more than a weed-overgrown drainage
>> ditch. It's hard to visualize that it used to be a 60-foot wide, 6-foot
>> deep superhighway around the turn of the century. The I&M was, actually,
>> what allowed Chicago to develop from a little trading post into a major
>> center of commerce. And today, most people have never heard of it.
>>
>> It amazes me that men, mostly Irish immigrants, could dig something like
>> that all with hand tools. It was hard, brutal work.
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Chris Crawford<chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> wrote:
>>
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>>>
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