Many of those who built the canals, in Pennsylvania and across the United States, came from Ireland. In the early 1800s life ...
Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region ...
President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to take back the Panama Canal. The shovels used to construct it were built by Bucyrus ...
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.
creating the foundation for what is known today as the Canal District. In the late 1800s the canals were covered over. Today, ...