The author of "Florida's Big Dig", the story of the Florida link in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville, Fla., to Miami, Fla., 1881 to 1935" announces that this book is officially online from Kindle in its full electronic form, and complete with illustrations, at a sale price of $9.95 on line. In publication since [...]
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Miami Marine Stadium upon completion in 1963 on Virginia Key, Miami, Fla.
An architectural jewel designed by 28-year-old Hilario Candela, the Stadium was used for decades for concerts,boat races, even boxing matches, for crowds at a maximum number of 6,566 until it fell into disuse and functional deterioration. As of this writing, a preservation group has formed to restore and renovate the Stadium for its original uses [...]
Aerial of Harbour Town Marina, Sea Pines, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Built in 1969 by acclaimed developer Charles Fraser, Harbour Town Marina has 100 slips on Calimbogue Sound, the second largest sound on the Atlantic coast (Long Island Sound is the largest) and part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Designed by renowned land planners Wallace Robert & Todd and Sasaki & Associates, the Sea Pines development [...]
Author to be interviewed by Book TV C-SPAN 2, Tuesday, April 21,2015
William G. Crawford, Jr., author of the award-winning "Florida's Big Dig," is to be interviewed by Jason Dorman, a graduate of Flagler College, for C-SPAN 2 Book TV. The interview is to air the month of May, with a special emphasis on a showing throughout the weekend of May 16 through May 17, 2015. The [...]
Survey of the Intracoastal aboard the Army Corps S/V FLORIDA II
https://youtu.be/JyrTAgJ3zGw Congress mandates a survey of the Florida stretch of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at least annually. The author joined Col. Alan M. Dodd, Commander of the Jacksonville District and Corps support personnel, along with the federal Waterway's official local sponsor, the Florida Inland Navigation District and its Commissioners, on the survey of the stretch [...]
Back to the future: the Chesapeake and Delaware River Canal
Completed in 1829 during the first great Canal Era when arguments over Constitutional restraints kept Congress from using Federal taxpayer money to fund inland waterway construction, a private company completed the 17-mile waterway between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. The original waterway was a tollway ten feet deep and sixty-six feet wide, with a boat [...]
Even Whiskers likes “Florida’s Big Dig,” the story of the Intracoastal Waterway
Our literate cat Whiskers peaks over the top of a book stand to view my award-winning book, "Florida's Big Dig: the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Miami, 1881 to 1935." Winner of the Rembert Patrick Award in 2008, my book tells the story of how a privately built tollway barely five feet deep in [...]
