Statement of Work done on the Lower sections of the James River & Kanawha Canal in the year ending September 1872 [manuscript caption title, followed by one and a half folio pages of manuscript describing the work]
Np: 1872. Mahoney’s report includes an enumeration of the employees (about 30) and their individual skills and work on 11 separate projects, ranging from a single sentence to a long paragraph. Included were 32 bridges built (one at Tredegar Iron Works) or repaired, a half-dozen lock gates built or repaired, bars removed from the canal in Richmond, portions of the tow-path repaired, other dredging of the canal, etc. Not long after this report was made, the canal, intended to link the coast with the west, succumbed, though only half finished in nearly a century of work, and was succeeded by what became the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Folded, but very good and quite legible. Item #70781
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