New Haven (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738578002)

The river itself carried the first travelers upstream to the short portage to the Mississippi watershed and the West. In the early 1800s, the Wabash and Erie Canal was started to provide a more reliable and even passage. Many came to work on it and settled, hacking out farmsteads from the dense, swampy forest. A canal lock nearby made a natural stopping and shipping point. In 1856, the Wabash Railroad superceded the canal with rapid all-weather transport and commerce flourished. The old canal towpath became a road, intersecting in the middle of the community with the Lincoln Highway, bringing in the automobile era. The local commuter age was born in the early 1900s with the interurban railroad from Lima, Ohio, to Fort Wayne, Indiana, providing hourly, fast service for jobs and shopping. This small, tree-lined city still shows clear marks of the ages and stages of transportation history that have given it life and form. Now greenway trails trace the old Indian paths along the river.

Author: New Haven Area Heritage Association
ISBN-10: 0738578002
ISBN-13: 9780738578002
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2011
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.62w x 0.30d