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Author:

Noll, Steven.

Title:

Ditch of dreams : the Cross Florida Barge Canal and the struggle for Florida's future / Steven Noll and David Tegeder ; foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Canals--Florida--History.--History.
Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway (Fla.)--History.
Florida--Economic conditions.
Oklawaha River (Fla.)--Environmental conditions.
Florida--Environmental conditions.
Environmentalism--Florida--History.
Carr, Marjorie Harris.
Florida--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Florida--Politics and government--1951-

Other Authors:

Tegeder, David.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Surveys and steamboats -- Boom or boondoggle? -- The dream deferred -- Groundbreaking, breaking ground -- New visions, new strategies -- Floating logs, dying trees, and clogging weeds -- Death of a dream.

Series:

The Florida history and culture series

ISBN:

081303406X (alk. paper)
9780813034065 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318874482

LCCN:

2009019226

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)