English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
The
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
was built by a corporation in 1856-1860 to afford
inland navigation
between the
Chesapeake Bay
and the
Albemarle Sound
. It is really two canals, thirty miles (50 km) apart, one eight and one-half miles (13.7 km) long, connecting the
Elizabeth River
with the
North Landing River
in
Virginia
, and the other five and one-half miles (8.9 km) long, connecting the
Currituck Sound
with the
North River
in
North Carolina
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License