Sailing Ships in Tow, Cape Cod Canal

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Sailing Ships in Tow, Cape Cod Canal

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.490

Scope and Content

Sailing ships being towed through the Cape Cod Canal. Notes about the canal included: Suggested 1676 Surveyed 1776 (?) Started private funds 1909 Opened 1914 Purchased by the Govt 1927 and tolls abolished 8 miles long Saves 70 miles Sea level, no locks Copy on slide 101-1 taken by Ingrid Feddeson, 1991 Index card done by Jack Fix

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection