2015年11月17日 · The Cross Florida Barge Canal would save three days of travel for ships if they didn’t have to go all the way around the peninsula, and could instead cut right through the middle of the state.

2024年12月28日 · The Cross Florida Barge Canal was an ambitious and ultimately unfulfilled project to carve a watery path across the state’s midsection, connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico. The dream of a cross-Florida shortcut has a surprisingly long lineage.

The Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway is a protected green belt corridor, more than one and a half miles (2.4 km) wide in places, that was the former route of the proposed Cross Florida Barge Canal.

2021年9月8日 · Despite never reaching completion, the tremendous public works project has a long history. Had it been finished, the Cross Florida Barge Canal would have spanned all of Central Florida by connecting a patchwork of artificial waterways, rivers, and lakes.

2021年10月9日 · It blocks the Ocklawaha River to create the reservoir, a 9,200-acre mucky home to bass and aquatic weeds. It's been a flashpoint for state environmental politics for more than half a century....

The greenway follows the path of the abandoned Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Despite never being completed, the gargantuan public works project has a long history.

Occupying more than 70,000 acres of land formerly known as the Cross Florida Barge Canal, the Greenway is a 110-mile linear park that is more than a mile wide in places. It hosts more than 300 miles of trails of all types — paddling, hiking, mountain biking, equestrian and paved multi-use.

2005年9月12日 · 1821: Urged by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, Florida's first territorial governor, Andrew Jackson, tells U.S. Army engineers to explore the possibility of constructing a cross-state...

Construction officially begins under the supervision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project aims to connect the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean via a barge canal running through the northern part of Florida.

Although it receives little attention today, the Cross-Florida Barge Canal stands as a landmark because it was one of the early cases in which the Army Corps of Engineers, whose primary mission has traditionally been to re-design and alter natural waterways, yielded to …