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The wooden craft was a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus's Santa María, one of three ships he used in his first voyage to the Americas in 1492. The new ship was believed to be the most accurate replica of the original Santa María. The ship, described by its builders as a "15th century caravel", had three masts and spanned 98 ft (30 m).
The caravel is a poorly understood type of vessel. Though there are now some archaeologically investigated wrecks that are most likely caravels, information on this type is limited. We have a better understanding of the ships of the Greeks and Romans of classical antiquity than we do of the caravel. [1]: 2 [2]: 636
Map of a portion of the canal route in the Cuyahoga Valley. The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio.It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth.
The other ships of the Columbus expedition were the smaller caravel-type ships Santa Clara; one particular ship sailed for 46 years and was remembered as La Niña ("The Girl"), and La Pinta ("The Painted"). All these ships were second-hand (if not third- or more) and were not intended for exploration.
The Warren County Canal was a spur of the Miami and Erie Canal to Lebanon, the county seat of Warren County, Ohio. The Ohio and Erie Canal in 1902. Following is a list of historic canals that were once used for transportation in Ohio. Hocking Canal - Branch of Ohio and Erie Canal; Miami and Erie Canal; Ohio and Erie Canal; Pennsylvania and Ohio ...
The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany , and the newly settled area north of the canal as " Over the Rhine ".
Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 544pp; Knepper, George W. Ohio and Its People. Kent State University Press, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 0-87338-791-0; Murdock, Eugene C. and Jeffrey Darbee. Ohio: The Buckeye State, An Illustrated History (2007). popular; Roseboom, Eugene H.; Weisenburger, Francis P. A History of Ohio ...
Ohio counties (clickable map) This is a list of properties and districts in Ohio that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 4,000 in total. Of these, 73 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in each of Ohio's 88 counties.