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Site - Halifax Harbor
Situation - Best port on the mainland of the Atlantic seaboar
- Eastern terminus of the Trans-Canadian Railroad |
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Site - Located at the site of rapids on the St. Lawrence
- Break of bulk point (depot center)
- Island location was more defensible
Situation – The St. Lawrence River provides the easiest water route on the East Coast to the interior
-This made Montreal the gateway city to Canada |
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Site – Confluence of St. Lawrence and Charles Rivers
- Bluffs at Cape Diamond were easily defensible
Situation – Productive hinterland made it good for settlement
- First “planned settlement” in North America (1608) |
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Site - Located on the Charles River at the head of Massachusetts Bay
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–Regional center (central place) for East New England
-Did not have many natural advantages
-Region was driven by textile industries
-Today it is a high tech economy |
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Site – Confluence of Connecticut and Parks Rivers
Situation – Central place for Connecticut River Valley
-Region has best farm land in New England
-Still a production region for tobacco |
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-Great harbor: deep, low tidal fluctuations, extensive docking area, protected.
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-Proximity to Atlantic Ocean
-Low level water route to Great Lakes (Hudson/Mohawk)
-Break-of-bulk point |
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-Falls site on the Genesee River
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-Milling center for America’s first “breadbasket”
-Benefitted from industrialization of Erie Canal
-Though it lost out to Buffalo as a break-of-bulk point |
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-Buffalo Creek & Lake Erie
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-Western terminus of the Erie Canal
-Becomes eastern break-of-bulk point for Great Lakes
-Location near Niagara Falls gives it a power source |
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-Don River & Lake Ontario…protected by Island Park
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-Southern terminus of the Toronto Passage
-Connects Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe & Georgia Bay
-Proximity to Ontario’s agricultural heartland |
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Site
-Hamilton Harbor on Lake Ontario
-One of the lake’s better harbors (needed canal dredging)
-Sits on the edge of the Niagara Escarpment
-Source of falling water (power)
Situation
-Located at the head of Lake Ontario
-Break of bulk point for goods moving west
-Primary center for industry on Lake Ontario
-Has benefitted tremendously from “duplication” |
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-Delaware & Schuylkill Rivers
-Deep channel w/40 miles of navigable waterfront
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-Best agricultural hinterland in the Northeast
-Access to the interior via the Delaware |
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Best natural harbor in Chesapeake (Mouth of Patapsco)
Situation
Access to Northern Piedmont hinterland
100 miles closer to the Ohio Valley than Philadelphia |
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Built on the banks of the Potomac
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Compromise location b/w North & South
City never develop commercially (as G.W. hoped) |
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Site - Coming together of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers
Situation - Headwaters of the Ohio River
Access to coal & iron (steel city) |
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Site - Jones Valley (Black Warrior watershed)
Situation - Jones Valley was natural RR corridor for trains southbound from Chattanooga & westbound from Atlanta
-Only place with access to coal, limestone & iron ore (steel) |
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•Falls on the Ohio River (break of bulk point)
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•Regional trading center for the Bluegrass region |
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•Bluff site overlooking the Cumberland River
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•Regional trading center for the Nashville Basin |
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•Best settlement site near confluence of Mo. & Miss.
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•Miss. & Mo. comprise one of world’s largest watersheds |
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•Polk homestead built in 1755
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•Intersection of trails between the Catawba & Yadkin
•Central Place for Piedmont industries |
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•Site of a former Creek village & later the Ivy homestead
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•Terminus of the Western & Atlantic Railroad |
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•Finest natural harbor in the South
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•Long the South’s major port for export/import of goods
•Savannah’s container port recently significant
•Immediate hinterland was not great, limited growth |
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-Mouth of the St. Johns River
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-Eastern end of southern route
-City was an early center of the film industry
-City is noted for poor race relations
- Stronghold of KKK & anti-Semitism |
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Site - Narrow plain b/w the Everglades and Biscayne Bay
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-Best American access to South America & Caribbean
-Tourism
-Population booms |
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Site – One of the few areas of solid ground in the Delta
Situation
–Shortcut between Lake Ponchartrain and Mississippi River
-Mouth of Mississippi, worlds 3rd largest drainage basin |
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| Mobiles economy is based on the settlement of French and Spanish soilders. the mouths of the Mobile River flows into the MObile Bay, and the Apalachieola (Chattahoochee) River, whcih enters the city of Apalachiola. The part of mobile developed in a manner resembles the great river port of New Orleans. Mobile was a Cotton Market, Slave Market, and a general cargo port during the river era. |
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