This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that ...
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This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
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New in new dust jacket. A Nice, New, Clean Copy! If you're not happy with your purchase, let us know. We will make it right! Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 371 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. Signed Copy Inscribed/signed by the author on the title page: "The past is prologue / William G Crawford, Jr.". Some light dampstaining to bottom edge of text block. Unclipped dust jacket with some edge-wear and rubbing; some light dampstaining to spine; jacket now protected by a mylar sleeve.
