How Did That Little Piggy (and that Cotton) Get to Market? - After the soggy summer of 2013, we are more likely to consider water an impediment to travel (and most of us today are more familiar with road and track rather than field and stream). To our ancestors, however, water (fresh or salt) represented not a barrier but an enhancement to the spread of mail, market goods, and people - and certainly served as a route preferable to muddy, rutted (or non-existent) roads, as the vogue for canals will suggests. This interactive map traces current waterway connections - "like Google Maps for creeks - click on any stream in the U.S. and make your way upstream to track its origin, downstream to discover where it deposits, or anywhere in between on its winding way." fastcodesign/1673168/now-this-is-live-streaming-an-interactive-map-of-every-stream-in-the-us#1
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:25:59 +0000