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Many slaves who worked on the original Dismal Swamp Canal escaped bondage by fleeing into the swamp's dense forests. Today, the Dismal Swamp is recognized as part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
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In 1846, the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company became one of the first businesses to install a telegraph. Employees of the company used it to notify traffic enforcement officers when ships exceeded the canal's 4.5 miles per hour speed limit
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In 1623, Captain Myles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts first proposed building a canal across the Cape Cod isthmus. He believed it would help facilitate trade between Native Americans and the colonists.
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In 1962, the U.S. Navy Seabees built a nuclear fallout shelter for President Kennedy near his vacation home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Peanut Island – one of the many barrier islands on the Intracoastal Waterway. It exists to this day.
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Narrator: America's liquid superhighway, a ribbon of water stretching 2,000 miles along the Eastern Seaboard. It's long offered refuge from the treacherous Atlantic, a vital commercial lifeline a century in the making, forged through stifling swamps and blasted though solid rock. Now climb aboard on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, on Modern Marvels.
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Commentators:
Howard Varnam, USACE
Director of Navigation, Wilmington, NC DistrictPete Stoughton
Bridge Tender, Great Bridge, VAGeorge Ramsey
Director, VA Canals & Navigation SocietyDavid Ingram
Land Survey HistorianDonald Jerry Ellis
Historian, Bourne Historical SocietyWilliam Crawford
Author, Florida's Big DigJames Tomlin
Project Engineer, C&D CanalLarry Brown, USACE
Marine Traffic Controller, C&D CanalRobert Hazel
Author, The Chesapeake & Delaware CanalBob Barth
Past President, Canal Society of New JerseyMark Wilde-Ramsing
Project Director, "Queen Anne's Revenge"Wendy Welsh
Laboratory Manager, "Queen Anne's Revenge"James Deal
Small Craft Mate, Cape Cod CanalJimmy Hadden, USACE
Project Manager, Charleston, SC DistrictKevin Allred, USACE
Surveying Technician, Wilmington, NC DistrictNick Westmoreland, USACE
Surveying Technician, Wilmington, NC DistrictCaptain Jim Donnelly
Instant Express, Steven's Towing Co.
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