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Canals in Indiana

Books and Printed Materials:

Canal Fund Commissioners. Report. Indianapolis, 1835-1841.

I 626 I385f

Fatout, Paul. Indiana canals. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1985.

I 386 F254i

Harlow, Alvin Fay. Indiana's canal heritage. Ft. Wayne: Public Library of Ft. Wayne and Allen County, 1954.

Ip 386.4 no. 10 [Pamphlet]

Meek, Thomas. Profile of the Wabash and Erie Canal: Showing locks, aqueducts, major feeders, flood-gates, and waste-wiers. Ft. Wayne: Anthony Wayne Printing, 1984.

I 627.13 M494p

Manuscript Collections: (See Manuscripts Catalog for additional information.)

  • L354 / Beeson, Isaac W.
  • L49 / Edwards, Elijah Evans
  • S449 / Fauntleroy, R. H.
  • L75 / Hovey, Edmund O.
  • L118 / Noble, Noah
  • L358 / Reser, William M.
  • S1122 / Roberts, Bessie Keeran
  • S1306 / Thompson, Lewis G.
  • L160 / Tipton, John

Maps:

U. S. Engineer Dept. Map and profile of part of a line for determining the practicability of uniting by a canal the rivers St. Joseph's, St. Mary's and Wabash, with the Ohio, through the valley of the White-water. 1826.

I 912.772 I26uma (1826)

U. S. Engineer Dept. Profile of part of a route for the proposed Erie and Wabash canal exhibiting the line on the north side of the Wabash river. 1827.

I 912.772 I27upr (1827) no. 1-3

Burr, David H. Map of Ohio and Indiana exhibiting the post office and post roads, canals, railroads, etc. Washington, 1839.

I 912.772 I39b (1839)

Indiana, 1846-1847. New York: H. Anstice and Co., 1847.

I 912.772 I47a (1847)

Broadsides: Canals

Clipping Files Headings:

  • Canals--General
  • Canals--Central
  • Canals--Wabash and Erie
  • Canals--Whitewater

Indianapolis Newspaper Index:

  • Canals
  • Waterways
  • Indianapolis canal
  • Whitewater Canal
  • Wabash & Erie Canal

Suppplemenatary Index:

  • Canal boats
  • Canals

Compiled by Andrea Bean Hough, 1998