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Canals and Waterways Reference library
Todd A. Shallat
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
...and Waterways The first waterway engineers in the Americas were the prehistoric builders who constructed fish weirs and ditches. The ancient Pueblo Indians of Mesa Verde reclaimed the high desert with a sophisticated system of storage reservoirs. European navigators encountered snags, sandbars, and rapids. In 1785 , George Washington organized a company that cleared rocks from the Potomac. Canal builders also developed the Santee, James, Delaware, Susquehanna, Schuylkill, and Merrimack rivers. Canals in the antebellum era were typically semipublic stock...
