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    route of the proposed Cross Florida Barge Canal. It is named for the leader of the opposition to the Cross Florida Barge Canal, Marjorie Harris Carr,...
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  • Barge Canal may refer to one of these projects: Canaveral Barge Canal, in Brevard County, Florida Cross Florida Barge Canal, a never-completed project...
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    Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 136–138, 140–145...
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    Marjorie Harris Carr (category University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni)
    the Cross Florida Barge Canal, which is now a public conservation and recreation area named in her honor in 1998. She was inducted in the Florida Women's...
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    Ocklawaha River (category Rivers of Florida)
    at Rodman Dam (later renamed the George Kirkpatrick Dam). The Cross Florida Barge Canal is navigable through the Buckman Lock with elevation changes of...
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    Rodman Reservoir (category Lakes of Marion County, Florida)
    along the Cross Florida Barge Canal. However, in 1971, due to the successful efforts of environmentalist Marjorie Harris Carr and Florida Defenders of...
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    surrounding the construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal never came to fruition when the partially-built canal was terminated after environmental...
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  • The St. Johns-Indian River Barge Canal was a planned canal in the state of Florida, 35.2 miles (56.6 km) in length and linking the Intracoastal Waterway...
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    Marks, Florida (which is near Carrabelle), and the second and third sections were intended to be connected via the Cross Florida Barge Canal across northern...
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    Citrus Springs were part of a proposed but unbuilt portion of the Cross Florida Barge Canal to aid the transportation of the mineral.[citation needed] The...
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    national cemetery in Florida, its fourth. Two major locations for the cemetery were studied: property near the Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Withlacoochee...
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    Street Canal Carondelet Canal Florida Canal London Avenue Canal New Orleans Outfall Canals Orleans Canal Washington-Palmetto Canal Holyoke Canal System...
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    attraction and important sector of the economy. The ill-fated Cross Florida Barge Canal was once intended to pass the city. Today, tourism remains important...
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    been the most serious human impact on nature in central Florida was the Cross Florida Barge Canal, an attempt to connect the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of...
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    proposed Cross Florida Barge Canal in Santos, the median for the road widens, as it contains supports for a bridge that was never completed once the Canal project...
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    Fort Myers on the west coast to Stuart on Florida's east coast. The waterway can support tows such as barges or private vessels up to 50 feet (15 metres)...
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  • Florida. He continued to campaign, at his own expense, for protection of the Everglades and against the construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal...
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    construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal by the federal government during the 1960s. A pair of graduate students from the University of Florida were the first...
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  • Peninsula. The position of the Chasm could also correspond with the Cross Florida Barge Canal, which, similar to the chasm, is generally forgotten except for...
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  • Trucking PDM Bridge Southwestern Electric Weststaff In 1970, the Cross Florida Barge Canal was still viewed as viable, with one-third of the project complete...
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    and Ohio Canal, Canal latéral à la Loire, Garonne Lateral Canal, Welland Canal and Juliana Canal. Smaller transportation canals can carry barges or narrowboats...
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    crosses the Ocklawaha River and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of that bridge, the road climbs an embankment for a higher bridge over the Cross Florida Barge...
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    Lake Rousseau (category Reservoirs in Florida)
    3,700 acres (15 km2). To the west is part of the uncompleted Cross Florida Barge Canal leading to the Gulf. The lake forms the centerpiece for the Lake...
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    north again. Near the right-of-way for the formerly proposed Cross Florida Barge Canal, the median for the road widens but narrows back down to normal...
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    Lake Jesup (category Lakes of Seminole County, Florida)
    Lake Jesup is the largest lake in Seminole County, Florida, United States and is one of many that make up the St. Johns River. Located along the middle...
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  • of way between Gainesville and Waldo. Cross Florida Barge Canal Turner, Gregg (2003). A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-2421-4...
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    non-federal contributions toward most federal water resource projects Cross Florida Barge Canal Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Occasional civil disasters, including...
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    north again. Near the right of way for the formerly proposed Cross Florida Barge Canal, the median for the road widens, but narrows back down to normal...
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    Floodwaters propelled the barge ING 4727 into the neighborhood on the other side of the levee from the Industrial Canal. During several days of the...
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  • the Okeechobee Waterway, St. Lucie Canal (C-44), Miami Canal and the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Miami's public transportation is served by Miami-Dade...
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