honors the contributions of the tens of thousands of Irish laborers who dug the New Basin Canal from 1832 to 1838. The six-mile-long waterway linked Lake Pontchartrain to downtown New Orleans ...

Palmyra, Track Twelve, Range Two, known as the “Wild West,” was settled in 1789 by John Swift from Connecticut. It earned the ...

Bancroft Bain (CV37 6BB) in Shakespeare’s Stratford connects the River Avon to the Stratford Canal. Now surrounded by gardens, the Basin was once ... turnover bridge, built so horses pulling ...

Jon Horsfall, Canal & River Trust’s director for the North West, says: “The Canal & River Trust cares for over 438 miles of canals in the North West, providing free to visit outdoor open ...

Chester Canal Basin, Tower Wharf, Chester CH1 4EZ The Shropshire Union ... There are 19 Grade II listed buildings to explore, including the Porters Row cottages built for dock workers in 1833, the ...

The UK’s largest canal charity ... Row cottages built for dock workers in 1833, the forge and stables, all bought to life with the help of costumed interpreters and volunteers maintaining the historic ...

A reservoir will be built with capacity for 1.5bn cu m in the Indio river basin and an 8.7 km transfer tunnel, which would go from there to the Panama Canal basin, with the aim of strengthening ...

Some 70% of the sea traffic that crosses the Panama Canal leaves or goes to U.S. ports. The United States built the canal in the early 1900s as it looked for ways to facilitate the transit of ...