Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal

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The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was built by a corporation in 1856-1860 to afford inland navigation between Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound. It was really two canals, thirty miles apart; one eight and one-half miles long, connecting Elizabeth River with North Landing River in Virginia, the other five and one-half miles long, connecting Currituck Sound with North River in North Carolina.

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  • Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940


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