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The Brazos Canal |
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Lake Jackson,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
29° 3' 22.5",
-95° 25' 55.4988"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Chartered in 1841, the Brazos Canal Company was the result of local landowners' efforts to build canals to connect inland plantations to Gulf shipping ports. Construction began in 1847 on a canal, referred to locally as the slave ditch because it was dug by the slaves of company owners. A one-mile section, twenty-four feet wide and three feet deep, took two years to complete. The project was soon abandoned. A rival company, the Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company, completed a canal between the Brazos River and Galveston Bay in 1856. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
The Brazos Canal Historical Marker Location Map, Lake Jackson, Texas
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