e/Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal

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has gloss	eng: The Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal between Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, and Havre de Grace, Maryland, at the head of Chesapeake Bay, provided an interstate shipping alternative to 19th century arks, rafts, and boats plying the difficult waters of the lower Susquehanna River. Built between 1836 and 1840, it ran along the west bank of the river and rendered obsolete an older, shorter canal along the east bank. Of its total length, were in Pennsylvania and in Maryland. Though rivalry between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, delayed its construction, the finished canal brought increased shipments of coal and other raw materials to both cities from Pennsylvanias interior. Competition from railroads was a large factor in the canals decline after 1855. Canal remnants, including a lock keeper's house, have been preserved in Maryland, and a lock has been preserved in Pennsylvania.
lexicalization	eng: Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal
instance of	(noun) long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation canal

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