Register of boats navigating the Illinois and Michigan Canal, 1855-1832.

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Register of boats navigating the Illinois and Michigan Canal, 1855-1832.

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Record provides a chronological listing of boats navigating the Illinois and Michigan Canal giving the boat name; navigation date; and origination point for each vessel operating on the waterway. Some volumes also list boat owner's name and residence; toll and lockage payments; clearance number; canal collector's office where the boat was registered; remarks about cargoes; and boat ownership changes.

ledgers 26 volumes.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois and Michigan Canal (Ill.)

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After the U.S. Congress granted nearly a hundred miles of public lands (between Lake Michigan and Illinois River headwaters) to the state of Illinois for canal construction (March 30, 1822), the General Assembly passed a canal bill (Feb. 14, 1923) establishing the Illinois and Michigan Canal Company. Following this company's failure, Congress donated Illinois land (March 2, 1827) "equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of the canal, reserving each alternate sectio...