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Reviewed by Thomas E. Castaldi | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3 | The History Cooperative
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Triumph at the Falls
The Louisville and Portland Canal

By Leland R. Johnson and Charles E. Parrish
(Louisville, Ky.: Department of the Army Corps of Engineers, 2007. Pp. viii, 340. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Free.)

Leland R. Johnson and Charles E. Parrish have succeeded in capturing the story of designing and building the two-mile Louisville and Portland Canal passage around the Falls of the Ohio. Examining the canal's history in fifty-year segments beginning in the early nineteenth century, they present the positive side of the planned obsolescence of these canal structures, built and maintained to ensure safe travel over dangerous rapids and falls that have challenged Indian and pioneer canoes, flatboats and steamboats, and today's improved inland river craft. 1
      The chapters trace the challenges and advancements of five engineering phases, beginning with Kentucky's victory over Indiana when both were vying to build a canal around the Falls. The authors recount the successive structures on the site, from a series of three locks completed in 1830 to aid in the safe navigation of inland river commerce to the present-day twin locks, measuring 1,200 feet in length, that accommodate towboats maneuvering massive, multiple barges through the canal. . . .
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