Many of those who built the canals, in Pennsylvania and across the United States, came from Ireland. In the early 1800s life in Ireland was barely worth living. Absentee landowners in England ...
France first attempted the canal’s construction in the late 1800s. The United States began its work on the canal in 1903 until completion in 1914, with the help of Bucyrus workers keeping the ...
The waterway eventually became the famed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the mid 1800s, its mule-drawn canal boats hauled great tonnages of freight between Washington and Cumberland, Md.