Max Raphael |
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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