Contents:The Age of Discovery and SettlementThe Canal EraRiver and Harbor ImprovementThe Intracoastal Waterway: Atlantic SectionChronologyNotesBibliography

An informative and comprehensive guide to the canals and waterways that link the East Coast of the United States, including the history of their construction, the current state of the maritime industry, and the ways in which these waterways shape and are shaped by the local communities that border them. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Individual chapters are devoted to the fishing and whaling industries, the Great Lakes, and the western rivers.