Transportation

Name: The New York State Canal System
Brand: Susan P. Gateley
SKU: 9781467154178
Price: 23.99 USD
Availability: InStock

The Transportation American history books series recognizes the ingenuity and determination evident in the history of transportation and commerce.Wind down South Carolina country roads or take a trip up the Beartooth Highway. Board the Georgia Railroad or join the California gold rush by stagecoach. From Connecticut river ferries to the streetcars of Florida’s coast, these American transportation books take readers on a journey through the past to the present.

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The New York State Canal System

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$23.99

Lost Chester River Steamboats

Paperback

$21.99

Great Lakes Shipbuilding

Paperback

$24.99

The New York State Canal System

9781467154178

$23.99

New York's unique and majestic canals stretch over 524 miles from Albany to Buffalo and between the southern tier counties of Tompkins and Schuyler to the Quebec border.

While much has been written on the nation building Erie Canal of the nineteenth century, much less has covered the third iteration of the waterway, the New York State Barge Canal. Deemed a historic corridor by the Federal Parks system in 2000, the Empire State's canal system has been in continuous operation since 1825, longer than any other man made transportation system in North America.

Author Susan P. Gateley reveals the history, beauty and present day state of New York State's grand canal system.

Lost Chester River Steamboats

9781467117593

$21.99

In the golden age of the steamer, the rich bounty of the Eastern Shore was transported down the Chester River and across the Chesapeake Bay to the port of Baltimore. For over one hundred years, vessels like the Maryland, the Chester and the B.S. Ford traversed these winding waters laden with fruit, grains, crabs and oysters. For a dollar, passengers could enjoy the novelty of a ride and the slow panorama of the shoreline. Through freeze and fog, skilled captains plied the waterways until the last of the steamers—the Bay Belle—made its final passage in the 1950s. Author and historian Jack Shaum journeys back to the bygone days of the Chester River's steamboats.

Great Lakes Shipbuilding

9781467156578

$24.99

For more than 200 years, Great Lakes shipyards have bolstered America's and Canada’s commercial and naval power.

Vessels like the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Niagara, and Walk-in-the-Water are now the stuff of legend, but lesser-known ships also have their stories to tell. Cargo-carrying schooners, such as Moonlight and Minnedosa, got faster and bigger over the years, helping them hold their own against the emerging steamships, while the revolutionary design of the R.J. Hackett set the standard for lake freighters for years. Of course, the Great Lakes have often exacted a heavy toll, as demonstrated by the mysterious disappearance of the Griffon and the harrowing sinking of Pere Marquette 18.

Highlighting vessels from the colonial era down to modern times, historian Glenn A. Knoblock explores the maritime heritage of America and Canada.