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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: October 25, 2009
Caption: Tidewater Connection
Additional Description: The Tidewater Connection of the James River and Kanawha Canal linked Richmond’s industries and the city dock with ocean-going trade. On the bustling city docks, flour, iron goods, tobacco and other products were loaded onto ships on their way to Atlantic ports and Central and South America. White and black stevedores emptied the cargo from incoming ships laden with coffee, fertilizer, dry goods and other imports. At the Great Ship Lock; vessels were moved from sea level of the canal through a canal lock.
Submitted: October 26, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p82105
File Size: 1.243 Megabytes

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