Shotguns and Sugar
Shotguns and Sugar
Shotguns & Sugar
S2 E6 Roads, Canals, and Steam: Travel in the Early Industrial Revolution
16 minutes Posted Nov 28, 2020 at 10:15 pm.
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How would you like to drive on a road that had 2-foot-high bumps in the middle of the lane? I wouldn’t either. But that was the standard for a well-built frontier road during the early 1800s. In this podcast I talk about the development of transportation systems in the United States during the 1800s. I include road building Canals, and railroads in the discussion.