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    The South Hadley Canal was a canal along the Connecticut River in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the earliest navigable canal in the United States...
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    South Hadley (/ˈhædliː/ , HAD-lee) is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,150 at the 2020 census. It is part...
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    Hancock. By 1795 the Proprietors had completed the South Hadley Canal, the first navigable canal to be completed in the United States. Continuing their...
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    out; these were the South Hadley Canal (opened 1795) in Massachusetts, Santee Canal (opened 1800) in South Carolina, the Middlesex Canal (opened 1802) also...
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    Madera Canal Orland South Canal Orland North Canal Pioneer Canal Putah South Canal Stine Canal Tehama Colusa Canal Hillsboro Canal Miami Canal North New...
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    The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic...
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    Massachusetts legislature and Governor John Hancock. After completing the South Hadley Canal, many of the earlier Proprietors turned their attention to extending...
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  • North Canal, Lawrence Northfield Mountain Tailrace Tunnel, Millers Falls Salem Beverly Waterway Canal, Beverly Second Level Canal, Holyoke South Hadley Canal...
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    80% in its time. The earliest predecessor to Holyoke's canals dates to 1827, when the Hadley Falls Company was established to manufacture cotton cloth...
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    Holyoke Dam (redirect from Hadley Falls Dam)
    referred to as the Hadley Falls Dam, or Hadley Falls Station is a granite dam built in tandem with the Holyoke Canal System at Hadley Falls on the Connecticut...
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    separate town from Deerfield. In 1795, the South Hadley Canal opened, enabling boats to bypass the South Hadley falls and reach Greenfield via the Connecticut...
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    the Morris Canal in New Jersey The inclined plane of the South Hadley Canal, Massachusetts The inclined plane of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal The inclined...
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    South Hadley Canal Historic District...
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    named for the Green River. In 1795, the South Hadley Canal opened, allowing boats to bypass the South Hadley falls and reach Greenfield via the Connecticut...
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    and shoes, the first friction matches, and ship building. In nearby South Hadley Canal, the firearms company Crescent-Davis specialized in producing double-barrel...
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    unload their goods going north from Springfield, before reaching the South Hadley Canal. The area, sometimes referred to as Hampden Landing, became known...
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  • Ship State Description Greenfield  United States The steamboat exploded and sank in the South Hadley Canal, Massachusetts with the loss of three lives....
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    Memorial Bridge and the Third Lake Washington Bridge (officially the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge) carry Interstate 90 from Seattle's Mount Baker neighborhood...
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    The New Junction Canal was constructed in 1905, to link the system to the River Don Navigation, by then part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation...
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    The Shrewsbury Canal (or Shrewsbury and Newport Canal) was a canal in Shropshire, England. Authorised in 1793, the main line from Trench to Shrewsbury...
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    of the Americas, south and east of the Colombia–Panama border by most authorities, or south and east of the Panama Canal by some. South and North America...
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    "Decades-long Partnership Eradicates Destructive Nutria Rodents from Maryland". Hadley, MA: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2022-09-16. Press Release. Archived...
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    Hadley Wood railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north London, England. It is 10 miles 46 chains (17.0 km) down the line from London...
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  • Fall River/Somerset Calvin Coolidge Bridge, Northampton/Hadley Canton Viaduct, Canton Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, Bourne Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial...
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    the February 13, 1979 windstorm. It was rebuilt 3 years later. Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge Completed 1989. Spans 5,811 feet (1,771 m). Spans Lake Washington...
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    Navigation and the Basingstoke Canal. The south coast at Littlehampton could be reached via the Thames, Wey and the Wey and Arun Canal. Note: Only the largest...
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    "Baptist Village" The Flats – features the Holyoke Canal System and many prominent structures built by the Hadley Falls Company in the mid-19th century, as well...
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    new dam and canals constructed at Lowell, and by 1846 had noticed that a 60-foot drop in the Connecticut River, at what would be Hadley Falls, would...
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    route again, crossing a canal before crossing the Vietnam Memorial Bridge into South Hadley and Hampshire County. In South Hadley, Route 116 meets U.S....
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    kind: the eastbound-only Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, which carries westbound traffic and the future light rail...
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