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Lake Hiawatha is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [5] located within Parsippany–Troy Hills Township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [6] The U.S. Postal Service serves the community as ZIP Code 07034.
John Brown, a Providence Merchant, envisioned the Blackstone Canal from the late 18th century. The Erie Canal was built in Upstate New York, just prior to the construction of the Blackstone Canal. The need for inland transportation from Worcester to Providence finally gave way to an inland waterway, the Blackstone Canal (1828).
Blackstone is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,208 at the 2020 census. [1] It is a part of the Providence metropolitan ...
Blackstone River State Park, Rhode Island: This park borders both the Blackstone River and Canal and contains bike paths, walking trails, and river access. The Wilbur Kelly Museum, built by former merchant ship's captain and mill owner Wilbur Kelly, is also within the park, and the museum tells the story of the region's transportation history.
The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor follows the Blackstone Valley from Worcester to Providence, Rhode Island.The corridor follows the course of the Industrial Revolution in America from its origin at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island as it first spread north along the valley to Worcester, Massachusetts, and then to the rest of the nation.
Hiawatha also is the only Minneapolis lake where zebra mussels have been detected on sampling plates, according to the Park Board's aquatic invasive species report, which blames the infestation on ...
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The Blackstone Canal was a manmade waterway, linking Worcester, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island, and Narragansett Bay, through the Blackstone Valley, via a series of locks and canals in the early 19th century. Construction started in 1825, and the canal opened three years later.