Download or read book Cultural Heritage and Land Management Plan for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor (Classic Reprint) written by Blackstone Valley Heritage Corridor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cultural Heritage and Land Management Plan for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor With poor roads and an unnavigable river, goods moved slowly through the Valley, until the Canal and the railroad opened it to worldwide commerce. Blackstone River Valley is one of the Nation's richest and best preserved repositories of landscapes, structures and sites that recall a neglected era of the American past: the Age of Industry. Thousands of structures and whole landscapes still exist which represent the entire history of the American Industrial Revolution and the complex economic and social relationships of the people who lived and worked here. The Valley is the story of people at work. It is the story of entrepreneurs; of families at work in factories and on farms; of social utopians and labor organizers; of builders of roads, canals, and railroads; of industrial managers; of waves of immigrants; and of religious dissidents and conformists. It is the story of innovation, boom, collapse, and recovery. In particular, it tells a dynamic, graphic story of Man and Nature: how natural and human resources can be wisely harnessed and cherished; how costly is their thoughtless abuse and essential rehabilitation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.