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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 District Pete Stoughton Bridge Tender, Great Bridge, VA George Ramsey Director, VA Canals & Navigation Society David Ingram Land Survey Historian Donald Jerry Ellis Historian, Bourne Historical Society William Crawford Author, Florida's Big Dig James Tomlin Project Engineer, C&D Canal Larry Brown, USACE Marine Traffic Controller, C&D Canal Robert Hazel Author, The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bob Barth Past President, Canal Society of New Jersey Mark Wilde-Ramsing Project Director, "Queen Anne's Revenge" Wendy Welsh Laboratory Manager, "Queen Anne's Revenge" James Deal Small Craft Mate, Cape Cod Canal Jimmy Hadden, USACE Project Manager, Charleston, SC District Kevin Allred, USACE Surveying Technician, Wilmington, NC District Nick Westmoreland, USACE Surveying Technician, Wilmington, NC District Captain Jim Donnelly Instant Express, Steven's Towing Co.
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