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Description: Wabash and Erie Canal Groundbreaking
marker.
Keywords: Fort Wayne, Indiana, Growth Avenue, Main Street,
Wabash
and Erie Canal Markers
Date of photos: September 12, 2005
Camera: Kodak DX5790
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Wabash and Erie Canal
Groundbreaking
On February 22, 1832, ground was
broken two blocks north for the
canal, which would link Lake Erie
at Toledo with the Ohio River at
Evansville. Jordan Vigus, Canal
Commissioner, Charles W. Ewing,
Samuel Hanna, and Elias Murray
participated in the ceremony.
Erected 1992 Indiana Historical Bureau |
Copyright © Stephen L. Parker, 2003 - 2008. All Rights
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May not be copied in whole or in part without the expressed written permission
of the copyright holder.
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