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The end of a transportation era was recognized Thursday with the dedication of a historical marker for the Wabash & Erie Canal, near the corner of Second and Chestnut streets in Terre Haute.
Such a canal if it could be built, would connect upper Indiana to New York City via a waterway that reached Lake Erie ... Terre Haute. But the railroads were coming. And by 1854, when the Wabash ...
In the Vigo County Historical Society Museum County History Exhibit hang maps of Terre Haute and Vigo ... The route of the Wabash and Erie Canal through the city is also clearly indicated, along ...
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Settlers used this canal in the 1850s to turn the small village of Delphi into a bustling town. Now, the Wabash & Erie Canal Park is not so much a trade route as a summer destination featuring ...
Preston Richardt, 'friend' of the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge, will present an informative program about the Wabash and Erie Canal. Richardt will focus on the section of the canal as it ...