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20 ώρες πριν · History 1857 map of the Pennsylvania Railroad system Beginnings. With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the beginnings of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in 1828, Philadelphia business interests became concerned that the port of Philadelphia would lose traffic. The state legislature was pressed to build a canal across Pennsylvania and thus the Main Line of Public Works was commissioned ...
20 ώρες πριν · The Bruckner Expressway is a freeway in the borough of the Bronx in New York City.It carries Interstate 278 (I-278) and I-95 (and formerly I-878) from the Triborough Bridge to the south end of the New England Thruway at the Pelham Parkway interchange. The highway follows a mostly northeast–southwest alignment through the southern portion of the borough, loosely paralleling the course of the ...
20 ώρες πριν · The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians.The Erie Canal accelerated the settlement of the Great Lakes region, the westward ...
20 ώρες πριν · Taeping, a tea clipper built in 1863. A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed.The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century.. Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th-century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area.
20 ώρες πριν · Honesdale is a borough in and the county seat of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough's population was 4,458 at the time of the 2020 census.. Honesdale is located 32 miles (51 km) northeast of Scranton in a rural area that provides many recreational opportunities, such as boating, fishing, hiking, hunting, skiing, biking, skateboarding, and rafting.
20 ώρες πριν · Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the Northeast 18
