Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company records, 1792-1919.

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Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company records, 1792-1919.

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Minutes of the board of directors (4 v., 1828-1919), minutes of acting committee (1 v., 1848-1866), record of stock sales (1802-1803 and accounts to 1806 (1 v.), minutes of stockholders meetings (1 v., 1803-1906), list of signatures of proxies for meeting (1 v., 1822), record of stock subscriptions (1 v., 1823), record of stockholders and loan holders (1 v., 1914-1919), dividends (1 v., 1853-1876), interest receipts (1 v., 1860-1870), interest on mortgage loan (1 v., 1912-1919), mortgage loan certificate book (1 v., 1916-1919), letterbooks (3 v., 1816-1817, 1822-1832, 1831-1841), records of lawsuit: John Randel, Jr., vs. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Co. (1 v.), minutes of Committee of Survey (1 v., 1803-1804, 1822), Latrobe's report of proposed routes (1 v., 1803-1805), excavation report (1 v., 1823-1824), materials relating to John Randal, Jr., and his reports (1824-1825), receipt book relating to work by Charles Ash on the canal at Delaware City (1 v., 1865-1876), tolls (1 v., 1862-1864), atlas of canal property (1 v., 1906), engineering drawings 91 v., 1906), scrapbook (1 v., 1906-1907), detailed map of canal, correspondence, legal and financial documents, and papers relating to tolls (1792-1919).

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Historical Society of Delaware

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Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company

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Formed in 1802 to dig a canal across the Delmarva Peninsula to join the Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake Bay. Engineering surveys were done by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and work actually began but the company ran out of money and abandoned the project in late 1805. In 1822 the company was revived and a canal was completed which opened in 1829. In 1919 the canal, which ran from Delaware City, Del., to Chesapeake City, Md., was purchased by the federal government. From the description of C...

Ash, Charles Walter, 1945-

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Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820

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British-born American architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol and other public buildings in the United States. -- Joseph Donath was a Philadelphia merchant who is best remembered for supplying glass to Thomas Jefferson. From the description of [Letter] 1805 Sep. 19, Ironhill, Del. [to] Jos. Donath & Co. / B. Henry Latrobe. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 245178736 British-born architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, most famous for designing the ...

Randel, John

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Early Syracuse surveyor and mapmaker. From the description of John Randel field books, 1821-1836. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155421704 New York surveyor and civil engineer, born ca. 1780 and died 1865. From the description of Field books, 1812-1822. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58774579 ...