Wabash and Erie Canal — The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via a man made waterway. The canal provided traders with access from the Great Lakes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.The canal known as the Wabash Erie … Wikipedia
Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival — on Bull Island, a strip of land in Illinois but, on the Indiana Side of the river. A crowd estimated at 200,000 to 300,000 attended the concert.Several months before the Festival, promoters Tom Duncan and Bob Alexander held a very successful… … Wikipedia
Canal Lands — were tracts of land donated by the federal government to several Great Lakes states in the 19th century to aid in the construction of Canals. These states sold the land tracts to private parties to raise funds for canal construction. Contents 1… … Wikipedia
Erie (disambiguation) — Erie may refer to: General*Erie (tribe), the name of a tribe of Native Americans whose name is used for various locations. The word was borrowed into English from French which had previously borrowed the word (and gallicized it) from a… … Wikipedia
Wabash — may refer to multiple places in the United States of America:*Wabash, Indiana *Wabash County, Illinois *Wabash County, Indiana *Wabash Valley Seismic ZoneWabash may also refer to:*Wabash Indians or the Wabash Confederacy, a loose confederacy of… … Wikipedia
Wabash River — Infobox River river name = Wabash River caption = Map of the Wabash River watershed with the Wabash River highlighted. origin = Near St. Henry, Ohio in Mercer County, Ohio mouth = Ohio River near Uniontown, Kentucky basin countries = USA length … Wikipedia
Erie Township, Miami County, Indiana — Infobox Settlement official name = Erie Township settlement type = Township nickname = motto = imagesize = 250px image caption = Countryside in northern Erie Township image mapsize = 250px map caption = Location of Erie Township in Miami County… … Wikipedia
Wabash — /waw bash/, n. 1. a river flowing from W Ohio through Indiana, along part of the boundary between Indiana and Illinois, into the Ohio River. 475 mi. (765 km) long. 2. a city in N Indiana. 12,985. * * * ▪ Indiana, United States city, seat… … Universalium
Whitewater Canal — The Whitewater Canal, which was built between 1836 and 1847, spanned a distance of seventy six miles and stretched from Lawrenceburg, Indiana on the Ohio River to Hagerstown, Indiana. Contents 1 History 1.1 Birth of a canal 1.2 Construction … Wikipedia
Indiana Central Canal — The Indiana Central Canal was a canal intended to connect the Wabash and Erie Canal to the Ohio River. It was funded by the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, Indiana s attempt to take part in the canal building craze, started by the Erie Canal.… … Wikipedia
Indiana Canal Company — The Indiana Canal Company was a corporation first established in 1805 for the purpose of building a canal around the Falls of the Ohio on the Indiana side of the Ohio River. After several attempts, and possible sabotage by a supporter of the… … Wikipedia
