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    The Cascade Locks and Canal was a navigation project on the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, completed in 1896. It allowed...
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    Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city got its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades...
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    rise to the name for the surrounding mountains: the Cascade Range. In 1896 the Cascade Locks and Canal were constructed to bypass the rapids. In the late...
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    Canal system of waterways; it would also require fewer locks (or lower-rise locks) than the Volga-Don route. Manych Ship Canal is the existing canal system...
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    rebuilt and locks replaced. It was called the Barge Canal at the time, but that name fell into disuse with the disappearance of commercial traffic and the...
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    prior to this damming of the river, the Cascade Locks and Canal were constructed, allowing ships to pass the Cascades Rapids, located several miles upstream...
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    of downtown Akron, the Cascade Locks Historic District is a ravine that opens up to a flat plane where the Ohio and Erie Canal empties into the Little...
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    easily navigable, or to allow a canal to cross land that is not level. Over time, more and larger locks have been used in canals to allow a more direct route...
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    and kayaking) 17th Street Canal Carondelet Canal Florida Canal London Avenue Canal New Orleans Outfall Canals Orleans Canal Washington-Palmetto Canal...
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    virtually ended on the Columbia and Snake Rivers above the Dalles, at least until November 1896, when the Cascade Locks and Canal were completed, allowing open...
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    and falls on the Columbia River between The Dalles and Celilo Corps of Engineers map showing location of proposed Celilo Canal and locks Celilo Canal...
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    that depth was not attained until 1976. Cascade Locks and Canal were first constructed in 1896 around the Cascades Rapids, enabling boats to travel safely...
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    the Ashton Canal at Whitelands Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne. It crosses the Pennines by means of 74 locks and the Standedge Tunnel. The canal was first proposed...
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    appropriate locks and dams. The lower canal began as a collection of removed stone obstructions and low rock dams with a system of wooden "bear-trap locks" invented...
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  • Bolton and Bury the canal was level and required no locks. Six aqueducts were built to allow the canal to cross the rivers Irwell and Tonge and several...
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    exit from Lake Superior and can be bypassed by huge freight ships through the man-made Soo Locks and the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. Two of the Ontario tributaries...
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  • Portland, Oregon Newberg (Tilikum Retreat Center) Cascade Locks (Bridge of the Gods) Cascade Locks (Cascade Locks Marine Park – Thunder Island) Portland (Portland...
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  • the newly completed Cascade Locks and Canal at the opening ceremony for the works. The Regulator, owned by the Dalles, Portland, and Astoria Navigation...
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  • River, Oregon Carson River Valley, Washington Stevenson, Washington Cascade Locks, Oregon North Bonneville, Washington Washougal, Washington Camas, Washington...
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    Constructed canals only Lake Washington Ship Canal / Chittenden Locks (Ballard locks), Seattle Port Townsend Ship Canal Cascade Locks and Canal, Columbia...
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    easternmost point of the lake is the Ship Canal Bridge, which carries Interstate 5 over the eastern arm of the lake and separates Lake Union from Portage Bay...
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    Bonneville Dam. See also Bridge of the Gods, Cascade Locks and Canal, Greenleaf Peak, and Table Mountain. Celilo Falls and The Dalles (many variant names including:...
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    Ainsworth (June 6, 1822 – December 30, 1893) was an American pioneer businessman and steamboat owner in Oregon. A native of Ohio, he moved west to mine gold in...
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    trips up the Columbia River to Cascade Locks and Canal. Undine departed from the Taylor Street dock at 8:30 a.m. and returned at 6:00 p.m. Round trip...
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    captains and delays in the construction of the Cascades Locks and Canal. Steamboat captains had voiced concerns because they needed to transport goods and passengers...
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    Bonneville and Cascade. The railroad hauled primarily military and immigrant traffic. In 1862, the railroad was sold to the Oregon Railway and Navigation...
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    Line and active around 1903 to 1915, operating on Lake Coeur d'Alene, between Harrison and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The Idaho was 147 feet long and the beam...
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    Kawartha to the north and the municipality of Selwyn to the south. The falls (more accurately described as a chute or cascade, since the drop in water...
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  • from the Mississippi-Ohio River system, which in the right season, and with a canal around the Falls of the Ohio, was navigable from New Orleans to Pittsburgh...
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  • freight and mail on the route with the sloops Minerva and Pet, and later the steamboat Favorite. Later, he commanded the steamers Montesano and Tom Morris...
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