Dismal Swamp Canal Company papers [manuscript] 1794-1855.

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Dismal Swamp Canal Company papers [manuscript] 1794-1855.

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Court orders, letters, memoranda, map of the canal route from Deep Creek, Va. to South Mills, N.C., showing the feeder canals and land condemnation assessment documents [8 items]--Order 1854 July 27, from the U.S. Treasury Dept. to Lt. Col. J. McClellan for $3,183.00 [1 item].

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Dismal Swamp Canal Company

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The Dismal Swamp Canal, which connects Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound, was proposed as early as 1763 when George Washington and five associates formed the "Adventurers for Draining the Great Dismal Swamp." This company abandoned the project as economically unfeasible. In 1784, the Dismal Swamp Canal Company was created. On December 1, 1787, the Virginia Assembly passed an "Act for cutting a navigable canal ..." Digging of the canal finally began in 1793. Most of the work was don...