The Clermont was 142 feet long, 18 feet wide, and drew 7 feet of water. ... Because there is less friction to overcome, a team plodding along a towpath could pull a canal barge with a 100-ton load and make better time over long distances than it could pulling a single ton in a wagon on the finest road. Although canals were as old as Egypt, only about 100 miles of them existed in the United States as late as 1816. ...

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These were buildings that were built on a standard lot twenty-five feet (eight meters) wide and one hundred feet (thirty meters) deep. ... Creating a design that would do this was hard to do after the tenement law of 1879 that constrained the Manhattan lot size 25 by 100 feet. ...

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"Cities and Reformers" During the last part of the 19th-century, America was the place to be. The population count almost doubled before the beginning of the new century. People poured into the country's cities lured here by glitter, entertainment, excitement, friends, relatives, and most impo...

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Imagine that your parents just purchased their new home. All of their hard work and dedication has finally paid off buy having a place of their own. You can see the joy and excitement on your parents faces when there moving into their new house. Finally, settling into the new house brings comfort an...

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