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. The canal stretched from Evansville, Indiana to Toledo, Ohio.
The highest section of the canal in a geigraphic sense was in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which gave birth to that city's most-common nickname, the "Summit City."
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.
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External links
- Canal Construction in Indiana - The Indiana Historian, September 1997
- Wabash and Erie Canal in Carroll County
- Wabash and Erie Canal Journey
- Maumee Valley Heritage CorridorTemplate:Indiana-geo-stub