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Coal Boats to Tidewater by Manville B Wakefield w dust jacket
Coal Boats to Tidewater by Manville B Wakefield
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket (rough around some edges, taped)
222 pages
Copyright 1971
CONTENTS
Mapsix
Foreword, Carl Carmerxv
Prologuexvii
1. The Beginnings1
2. The Lion And The Gravity9
3. The Canal, Its Locks And Boats33
4. Lackawaxen Section51
5. Delaware And Lackawaxen Aqueducts79
6. Delaware Section93
7. Neversink Section123
8. Summit Level133
9. Ellenville Section147
10. Rondout Section159
11. End Of Run197
12. Acknowledgments203
Notes205
13. D. & H. to HONESDALE Photographic Salon207
14. INDEX220
ON THE BACK COVER
Coal Boats Tidewater
By Manville B. Wakefield FOREWORD by CARL CARMER
The Delaware and Hudson Canal skirted ghostly swamps, crossed stone arch bridges and suspension aqueducts, wound along the base of towering cliffs and clung to the edge of narrow defiles. It followed a route that challenged the engineering genius of its day. "Coal Boats to Tidewater" is a study in depth of regions clarified by more than thirty maps and over two hundred photographs.
This searching and penetrating, graphic and literary record, is not only of the great days of boating and gravity railroading, but of the gaunt skeletal remains of today. It documents the lock ruins and the present day canal-side structures for those who walk the towpaths of the future and like to search out the weed-grown folkways of the past.
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