Washington’s sophisticated western settlement and national defense strategy required that the only transportation technology available to 1780 United States was to cross the Appalachians and
Category: As the Twig is Bent
1.0 An Opening Module 0b1: the Patowmack Project and 1784 Expedition
the Patowmack Project Washington had long schemed to construct a canal on the Potomac to open up his various western lands. As early as 1768
1.0 An Opening Module 0b: the “New” George Washington
the “New” George Washington George Washington seems, I suspect, “timeless” to us today. But, I believe, like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and a horde of current
1.0 An Opening Module 0a: George Washington’s Patowmack (Potomac) Canal: the American Early Republic’s First Economic Development Strategy and the Midwife of the American Constitution
As the Twig is Bent; So Grows the Tree: A Bottoms-Up History of American State and Local Economic Development Among our Founding Fathers, George Washington
Eras (and Ages) of American S&L Economic Development AND Early Republic Era
AS TWO SHIPS Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it–mistakes and all. American state and
7.7 Erie Canal
Erie Canal The answer to the question “why this big deal about DTIS and canals’ is “look at Erie Canal”. The second question that follows
Ron W. Coan 