Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, Chesapeake

The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was built by a corporation in 1856-1860 to afford inland navigation between the Chesapeake Bay and the Albemarle Sound. It is really two canals, thirty miles apart, one eight and one-half miles long, connecting the Elizabeth River with the North Landing River in Virginia, and the other five and one-half miles long, connecting the Currituck Sound with the North River in North Carolina. ()