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    The Louisville and Portland Canal was a 2-mile (3.2 km) canal bypassing the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. The Falls form the only barrier...
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    Portland is a neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is situated along a bend of the Ohio River just...
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    the river – the Louisville and Portland Canal – were built between 1825 and 1830 to circumnavigate the falls. Fears that Louisville's transshipment industry...
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    locks and their associated canal were the first major engineering project on the Ohio River, completed in 1830 as the Louisville and Portland Canal, designed...
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  • Parrish, Charles E. (2007). Triumph at the Falls: The Louisville and Portland Canal. Louisville: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. p. 42. Archived from the...
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    independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Portland Canal. The museum consists of three...
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    The Louisville and Portland Canal and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad were important links in water and rail transportation. Louisville's importance...
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    the Ohio River. After several attempts, and possible sabotage by a supporter of the Louisville and Portland Canal, the project was ended. As the Midwestern...
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    Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River) (category 19th-century buildings and structures in Louisville, Kentucky)
    Waddell and Son, 1917". The draw span is across the upstream end of the Louisville and Portland Canal, which includes the McAlpine Locks and Dam. Ohio...
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    James Guthrie (Kentucky politician) (category Louisville and Nashville Railroad people)
    President Andrew Johnson and opposed Congressional Reconstruction. Guthrie also was a director of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company, the first president...
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