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Good Times and Bad On the Weldon Canal

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10690
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Abstract:
The Weldon Canal, which was built around the Roanoke Rapids in the Roanoke River in 1834, brought about important economic changes in northeastern North Carolina, helping arrest the mass exodus of the population and bringing prosperity to the area. Due to the difficulties inherent in shipping commodities from the Piedmont section of the state, the legislature granted the Roanoke Navigation Company a charter in 1812 to build a canal that would bypass the rapids. The canal took 22 years to complete at an estimated cost of $395,000. Due to increasing competition for shipping business from railroads, the canal corporation declared bankruptcy in 1870.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 37 Issue 8, Sept 1969, p11-12, 27, il
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