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Lester Gurney, C. E., Buzzards Bay
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1602-Cape discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.
1620-Arrival of the Pilgrims.
1627-Miles Standish trading at Manomett with the
Dutch from New Amsterdam. Boats within
three miles of each other. Small canal talked of.
1697-General Court of Massachusetts appoints a
committee to view place for passage from Barn-
stable Bay to Manomett Bay.
1717-Capt. Cyprian Southack describes free water
connection across the Cape Colony of Mass.
1776 Gen. Washington ordered Thomas Machin to
survey route which would "give greater security
to navigation and against the enemy." Also
James Bowdoin and William Sever appointed
a committee to investigate subject.
1791-John Hills and James Winthrop make survey.
1812-Isthmus used by small boats to avoid enemy,
1818-Israel Thorndike and Thomas H. Perkins em-
ployed Laommi Baldwin to make survey.
1824-United States ordered survey.
1828-Government Board reports on canal 36 feet
wide and 8 feet deep to cost $669,522.
1860-Renewed interest by State and Government.
1880 Charter granted to Cape Cod Canal Co. H.
M. Whitney and others interested.
1882-Gen. G. K. Warren, U. S. A. Engrs., reports
to Government on canal and cost of approaches.
1883-Cape Cod Ship Canal Co. made contract with
F. A. Lockwood. Excavated over 1,000,000 yds.
and failed. C. M. Thompson, Engineer.
1890 Property assigned to Col. Thos. L. Livermore.
1898-DeWitt C. Flanagan, of N. Y., interested.
1899-June 1-Charter to the Boston, Cape Cod &
N. Y. Canal Co., under which and its amend-
ments present company acting,
1904-August Belmont and others interested
1907-May 8-Approved by the Commissioners.
1909 June 22-Work officially begun at Bourndale.
S.Well fleet
NEastham
ORLEANS
THAM
Cape Cod Canal Officially Opened July 29, 1914.
Published by the Cape Cod Camera Craft Co., Buzzards Bay, Mass.
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