Wabash and Erie Canal
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The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal in Indiana that linked the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via a man-made waterway.
After Congress provided a land grant in 1827 for the canal's construction, it was operated by the Wabash and Erie Canal Company between 1833 and 1877.
External link
- Canal Construction in Indiana (http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/publications/canalconstruction.pdf) - The Indiana Historian, September 1997
- Wabash and Erie Canal in Carroll County (http://www.wabashanderiecanal.org/)
- Wabash and Erie Canal Journey (http://http://www.wabasherie.homestead.com/files/journey.html)Template:US-midwest-geo-stub