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	Blackstone Heritage State Park
		Inspired by the success of the Erie Canal (begun in 1817) and spurred by the expansion of textile manufacturing along the Blackstone River in the early 19th century, the Blackstone Canal was built to link Central Massachusetts to the Atlantic via Providence, RI.
		Initially highly successful, the canal was made obsolete by the completion of the railroad in 1847.
		Most of the canal structures are now gone, but the remains of lock chambers, dams, bridges, workers' housing, and a company store serve to remind us of the rich industrial history of the Blackstone River Valley.
	www.mass.gov /dcr/parks/central/blst.htm (509 words)

	Blackstone Canal, The Historical Journal of Massachusetts - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The loss of the Blackstone Canal at that time became one of the causes for the demise of the Canal in later years.
		From the initial idea of a Canal in the 1790's, to the resurfacing of the idea in the 1820's, many manufacturing facilities had sprung up along the Blackstone River and transportation was required for all types of freight.
		The Canal was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1823, during the January session of the legislature, and incorporated in Rhode Island during the June session of that same year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3837/is_200001/ai_n8880263 (696 words)

	Historical Blackstone Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Blackstone Canal formerly ran from Worcester Massachusetts to the port city of Rhode Island during the late 1820's and early 1830's.
		The remaining portions of the canal use the calmer, deeper portions of the Blackstone River.
		Paralleling the canal during its operation in the early parts of the 19th century were horse towpathes, from which horses would pull canal barge and boats up and down the canal.
	river.wsc.ma.edu /garp0344/hicks/mainpage.html (534 words)

	CANAL STREET
		Children and townspeople stood along the Blackstone River to wave to the fortunate passengers on the boats.
		Use of the canal was dependent on weather.
		Canal Street was the only by-pass to the rapids behind the Town Hall.
	www.millbury.k12.ma.us /hs/history/historytown/canalstreet.html (471 words)

	New York State Canal System
		It encompasses the Erie Canal from Macedon to Rome and the Cayuga-Seneca and Oswego Canals.
		The Rideau Canal is a chain of beautiful lakes, rivers and canals winding 202 km from Kingston, at the head of Lake Ontario, to Ottawa, Canada's capital city.
		Traveling on the canals and rivers of Europe is an ideal way to visit as as many as 14 countries and experience their culture and customs of life.
	canalsnys.org /links.htm (1091 words)

	Preserve America Community: Blackstone, Massachusetts
		Blackstone (population 8,804), named for the Reverend William Blackstone, an early settler, is located on the southern border of Central Massachusetts with Rhode Island.
		The town became an important transportation center with the 1828 opening of the Blackstone Canal, and later served as an important railroad hub connecting Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
		Blackstone is one of six communities in the Blackstone Valley in Massachusetts that has adopted local scenic roads bylaws to protect its historic landscapes.
	www.preserveamerica.gov /6-25-04PAcommunity-blackstoneMA.html (309 words)

	OSV - Document Viewer - Doc # 1928 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Blackstone river itself had too many twists, turns, falls, shallows, and rapids to be navigable for any distance, so in the winter and spring of 1821-2 meetings were held in towns all up and down the Blackstone Valley to discuss the construction of a canal to carry goods to and from the wider world.
		For example, the canal's Rhode Island charter gave mill-owners access to the gates of the canal's storage ponds so that the water they needed to turn their mill wheels would not be denied them.
		Blackstone Valley mill owners were jealously resentful of the canal's control and feared the loss of the water they needed to run their spindles and looms.
	www.osv.org /learning/DocumentViewer.php?Action=View&DocID=1928 (7307 words)

	University Transportation Center at Assumption College
		English merchant colonists, like William Blackstone who settled on the river in 1635 and Roger Williams who later found refuge in the colony, developed those trails to engage in trade with the Indians and traveled the river in their search for opportunities in the Valley.
		The Blackstone Canal had made it clear that growth and development in the region were dependent upon efficient transportation linking it to the rest of New England, the coast and to the West.
		With the successful development of this system of iron roads, Worcester and her sister communities in the Blackstone River Valley were poised to experience the social and economic revolutions that would come with the ever-increasing demand for emigrant industrial labor.
	www.assumption.edu /acad/Institutes/UTC/text/tee/texttee21.htm (1116 words)

	Blackstone Canal
		The building of this canal was an important advancement in the history of the Blackstone Valley.
		The canal was skillfully crafted, as the chief engineer and supervisors gained their knowledge about creating canals during the construction of the Erie Canal.
		The remains of this canal are visible in several points in Rhode Island, but perhaps the best place is in the Blackstone River Park in Lincoln, where the bike path follows the waterway and it is easy to spot the old lock used to raise and lower canal boats past the dam.
	riroads.com /archive/canal.htm (836 words)

	Free the Blackstone
		The Blackstone Canal Project in the City of Worcester dates from the mid-1990s, when the City Manager and his Chief Development Officer formed a citizen committee to study the possibility of unearthing the historic Blackstone Canal from its repose beneath the streets of the city.
		The Blackstone Canal Task Force has chosen to focus on Sector One of the feasibility study, which involves the replication of the canal along its historic route along what is now Harding Street in Worcester, from Union Station to Kelley Square.
		The Blackstone Canal Project consists of the replication of the historic canal down Harding Street in the upper Green Island area of the city, creating a five-block, pedestrian, waterside environment.
	www.freetheblackstone.com (677 words)

	A Comparison of the Blackstone and Middlesex Canals - by B.H. Dickson
		But by the Blackstone's time, canals had proved themselves to be a growing and reliable form of transportation and the shares a promising investment.
		In 1797, 6 years before the canal was completed, the management, in an effort to cheer the stockholders, ordered the opening of the 6 mile section between the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
		The Blackstone has been spoken of as a "magnificent enterprise." "To the Providence and Worcester Railroad it was a sort of forerunner, hinting at the grades, furnishing a path, and opening an avenue for the transportation of heavy freight.
	www.middlesexcanal.org /towpath/blackstone-middlesex.htm (3979 words)

	BLACKSTONE VALLEY INSTITUTE
		The Blackstone Canal, opened in 1828, helped change Worcester forever, and was the catalyst for the transformation of the City to a center of industry.
		Now, on the 175th anniversary of the Canal’s creation, the City’s leaders are considering a plan to “daylight” (uncover) the Blackstone Canal and revitalize the neighborhoods that surround it.
		The Canal District, designated by the City in 2002, extends south from the newly renovated Union Station along Harding Street, which is the historic route of the Blackstone Canal.
	www.nps.gov /archive/blac/institute/resources/riverfront/riverfront_blackstonecanal.html (258 words)

	WHM- The Blackstone Canal - Economic Impact
		The canal brought the wider world to the doorstep of the "port" of Worcester, and vice versa.
		William B. Fox, whose mill complex was in the lower part of town, was cited in the minutes of town meeting in 1847 for improperly raising the dam on his mill pond, a direct response to the canal company's earlier degradation of water flow to his factory.
		In 1829 nude bathing in the Blackstone Canal and other waterways was banned during the canal's hours of operation, violators subject to fines of $2-to-$10.
	www.worcesterhistory.org /ex_blackstone3.html (900 words)

	Blackstone Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blackstone Valley or Blackstone River Valley is a region of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
		In August 1955, severe flooding on the Blackstone caused extensive damage to Woonsocket, Rhode Island; where the river is usually 70 feet (21 m) wide it swelled to over 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.
		The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor is a national park dedicated to mill town history stretching across 24 cities and towns (400,000 acres (1,620 km²) in total) near the river's course in Worcester County, Massachusetts and Providence County, Rhode Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackstone_Valley (783 words)

	River Curriculum Guide
		The Blackstone River Monument, a small public fountain that celebrates and tells about the Blackstone River and the Blackstone River watershed, is an operational model of the river, designed to provide educational play experiences for the children at the Blanchard Early Childhood Center in North Uxbridge.
		The monument is about half a mile from the Blackstone River and former Blackstone Canal, in a city that owes its existence to the Industrial Revolution that began in America on the Blackstone River.
		The Blackstone River and its tributaries once were mighty torrents fed by the melting glacier, carrying away clay, sand, and stone, leaving the valley as we know it.
	world.std.com /~brd/river.guide.txt.html (4255 words)

	The Blackstone River
		The main tributaries of the Blackstone are Kettle Brook and the Quinsigamond, Mumford, and West rivers in Massachusetts; and the Mill, Peters, and Branch rivers in Rhode Island.
		In addition, the Blackstone Canal Company faced continuing legal challenges from mill owners, who asserted that their revenues were affected by the canal's operation.
		In 1986, the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor was established by Congress to preserve and interpret the significant historic and cultural lands, waterways, and structures within the valley.
	seagrant.gso.uri.edu /factsheets/blackstone_river.html (1408 words)

	Blackstone Canal
		While the canal was planned a cheaper means to move goods overland from Worcester to Providence, problems with freezing winter weather, insufficient water and competition with mill owners continually plagued its operations.
		Still, the Blackstone Canal was an important part of the industrial development of the Blackstone River valley in the nineteenth century.
		Restored sections for the Blackstone Canal can be seen at the Blackstone River State Park in Lincoln, RI and the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage Park in Uxbridge, MA.
	www.woonsocket.org /canal.html (575 words)

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		The Blackstone River Valley is a 50-mile corridor located in between Worcester, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.
		The Blackstone Valley's "claim to fame" is its rich historical background dating back to the Industrial Revolution.
		The farms, hilltop market centers, mill villages, cities, dams, canals, roads, and railroads are physical evidence of tremendous social and economic power.
	www.millbury.k12.ma.us /~hs/rte146/history.html (280 words)

	Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce: Historic Blackstone Canal Highlighted At Blackstone Valley Heritage Homecoming ...
		Much of the original canal trench and towpath is remarkably intact and includes visible, watered sections at State Route 122 A at the former Fisherville Mill site, currently proposed as a mixed use development.
		Blackstone Valley Heritage Homecoming is an early Autumn celebration now in its 21st season held in the eleven Massachusetts communities of the Blackstone River Valley.
		The mission of the chamber is to promote the economic vitality of the Blackstone Valley, meet the needs of the Chamber's business members, while providing leadership on issues which impact the economy and quality of life in the Valley.
	www.blackstonevalley.org /chamber/canal_breakfast.php (543 words)

	Blackstone Enlightener - Town Information
		Blackstone is 22miles southeast of Worcester; 37 miles southwest of Boston; 15 miles north of Providence, Rhode Island; and 192 miles from New York City.
		By 1776, enough colonial settlers had arrived in what are now the towns of Blackstone and Millville for the area to be organized as the new South Parish of Mendon.
		Monument Square, Blackstone, Massachusetts (Photo courtesy of Blackstone River Valley) Blackstone (population 8,804), named for the Reverend William Blackstone, an early settler, is located on the southern border of Central Massachusetts with Rhode Island.
	www.blackstonema.com /towninfo.htm (308 words)

	Blackstone Valley News - The Blackstone Canal
		He bought the entire contents of the first Blackstone Canal boat, the Lady Carrington, to arrive in Worcester, sight unseen for he believed that he could market his new purchases by using the speed of the canal boats as an indicator of freshness.
		While it is true that the investors of the Blackstone Canal suffered financial losses and that the Blackstone Canal Company was litigated extensively over water issues with the mills of the Blackstone Valley, these negatives are small in comparison to the general benefit to the welfare of the region.
		Finally, the most significant clear indication of the success of the Blackstone Canal was that within six years of the inaugural trip of the Lady Carrington to Worcester, Boston sponsored a railroad to Providence in 1834 and a railroad to Worcester in 1835.
	www.blackstonedaily.com /Adventure&Attractions/blackstone_canal.htm (1287 words)

	Canals
		Canal proponent Elkanah Watson is born in New York.
		Susquehanna Canal, and a Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
		River (in Pennsylvania) with the Ohio and Erie Canal at Bolivar, Ohio.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/Canals.html (7512 words)

	Worcester, MA - Blackstone Valley National Heritage Corridor
		The City recently received a $200,000 state grant to support an extensive feasibility study of the Blackstone Canal.
		The feasibility study will focus on the potential for both restoration and replication of the canal; development of historical markings along the canal’s route; as well as the development of a Blackstone Canal Park strategically located along the canal bed.
		The project is known as the Northern Gateway Project, the goal of which is to revitalize the Quinsigamond Village Neighborhood as the Northern Gateway to the Blackstone Valley by stimulating neighborhood economic revitalization, historic preservation, and environmental enhancement.
	www.worcestermass.org /development/blackstone.html (343 words)

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