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(Redirected from Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal)
The 'Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal' was built by a corporation in 1856-1860 to afford inland navigation between Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound. It was really two canals, thirty miles apart; one eight and one-half miles long, connecting Elizabeth River with North Landing River in Virginia, the other five and one-half miles long, connecting Currituck Sound with North River in North Carolina.
★ Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
★ http://www.nao.usace.army.mil/pao/brochure.asp
The 'Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal' was built by a corporation in 1856-1860 to afford inland navigation between Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound. It was really two canals, thirty miles apart; one eight and one-half miles long, connecting Elizabeth River with North Landing River in Virginia, the other five and one-half miles long, connecting Currituck Sound with North River in North Carolina.
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★ Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
★ http://www.nao.usace.army.mil/pao/brochure.asp
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