Chuck Arning, Public Historian, ” How Hard Would It Be to Dig a Ditch Anyhow? – How the Irish Saved The Blackstone Canal”
Chuck Arning, Public Historian, ” How Hard Would It Be to Dig a Ditch Anyhow? – How the Irish Saved The Blackstone Canal”
Rhode Islanders were excited about building the Blackstone Canal and saw it as a major employment opportunity. After all, how hard could it be to dig a ditch? The increase in elevation from Providence to Worcester was 452 feet, and the topography of the Blackstone Valley required the canal to traverse marshes, wetlands, creeks and