1Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 20 November 1781 (Madison Papers)
...in determining a feasible route for the Dismal Swamp Canal, his presidency (1802) of the...
2Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 20 September 1782 (Madison Papers)
...“managers” to collect subscriptions for the building of the Dismal Swamp Canal (
3From George Washington to Hugh Williamson, 31 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
Brown, “Dismal Swamp Canal.”Alexander Crosby Brown. “The Dismal Swamp Canal.”
4The General Assembly Session of October 1784 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
...good expeditiously. His enthusiasm for the Dismal Swamp canal proved premature but was in the...
5To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1784 (Madison Papers)
The Dismal Swamp Canal
...did indeed become part of the Dismal Swamp canal. Completed in the nineteenth century,...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson, 6 February 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
..., to judge from surviving letters. In regarding the proposed Dismal Swamp canal as
8April—1785 (Washington Papers)
The Dismal Swamp Canal
9[Diary entry: 29 April 1785] (Washington Papers)
The Dismal Swamp Canal
10To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 11 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
...for opening and operating a mutually advantageous Elizabeth River (or Dismal Swamp) canal (