Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
Covering over 85,000,000 acres of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the site last year. Over the next 90 minutes we feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland at Cuyahoga Valley National park. Situated along the Cuyahoga River we will learn how the canal system plays a a major re in our nations westward expansion during the 1830s and 40s. [background sounds] [background sounds] the ohio and erie canal as part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america built between 1825 18251832, and basically its a water transportation route the connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at the time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. Howeve
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes well feature a mixture of National Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland situated along the river, well learn how the canal system plays a role in the westward expansion during the 1830s and 40s. The canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Basically its a water transportation route that connected lake eerie with the ohio river which is part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle, the appalachian mountains. Jr George Washington had an idea to create a water transportation route using
It was in 1849 that welch pioneers came to the valley and they sang in harmony and welch. They decided you need to be the nucleus. It started in 1849. They used to sing in the tabernacle. When that was too small they started building this particular building which was in the late 1860s. It was completed at the end of the civil war. The tabernacle here has been the home of the choir ever since. As we had voisitors come one of the things they first noticed is the organ. It is right there and has been accompanying since the organ was put in. It has been around even longer. This is older than the temple itself. The oldest thing inside is this organ case. These gold pipes next to me here have looked down on decades and decades of history. So a lot of history in this organ case and in the building. The soupd of the tabernacle organist is really unique. This ceiling does a remarkable ceils of projecting the soupd no the back of the room. It is like a warm bath when you hear this organ play. W
Length. It was the only structure we know of that was here at the time when he bought the first plot of land in 1706. He expands that and eventually moves there and is known as the settlers house. When he dies in 1720, his son Charles Carroll of annapolis, papa, builds this house. Its built as a two to three story brick structure, two from the street, three from the waterfront. The waterfront is the more imposing side and its very guests often arrived via water. Charlie was sent away first to florida panhand fl flanders and then to england. Their faith and education were intertwined. It was incredibly important to papa to send his heir, his only child, to have a Roman Catholic education at the very best institutions, and that was in europe. So charlie was sent at the age of 11 and he does not return. So thats 1748 and he returns in 1765, i believe. Charl charlies education in europe was a classic education, latin and greek and finance and arithmetic and geometry and french and poetry a