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In April 1835, an elegant new vessel entered the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal at Dam No. 5 and descended about six miles to the boat basin at Williamsport, Md. It was the Lady Washington, a “handsomely ...

and Guard locks along the Lehigh Canal in Easton’s Hugh Moore Park. The $100,000 project was funded through bond issue money approved by Easton last year. Modern-day cranes lowered the gates into ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. — In 1825, travelers navigated 83 locks. I crossed one. They traversed nearly 400 miles. I went 7. They saw the whole thing from mule-pulled barges. I was on the Lil’ Diamond II. We all ...

Often dubbed the “Eighth Wonder Of The World” and selected as one of the “Seven Wonders Of The Modern World,” the Panama Canal is a 48-mile long waterway across the Isthmus of Panama linking the ...

The neighborhood is about as close to a modern ghost town as there is. Most of the modest homes that sold for less than $10,000 when they were built in the 1950s are vacant, thick boards covering ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. – In 1825, travelers navigated 83 locks. I crossed one. They traversed nearly 400 miles. I went 7. They saw the whole thing from mule-pulled barges. I was on the Lil’ Diamond II. We all ...