RIVERS, CANALS, & WATERWAYS,

                       EXCLUDING ST. JOHNS RIVER

• INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY -- Detailed history of the Florida Coastline Canal (the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway).  From the Florida Inland Navigation District homepage.

• CROSS-FLORIDA CANAL HISTORY -- History of the efforts to dig a canal across Florida.  Info furnished by US Army Corps of Engineers.  BACKGROUND INFO:  The idea of a cross-Florida canal dates back to the 1560s.  Many people in Jacksonville have long believed that a cross-Florida canal would boost the city's economy. 

• CROSS-FLORIDA CANAL -- Ocala Star Banner article entitled "Cross-State Canal Long a Dream, Nightmare for Floridians," by Lucy Tobias.

• CROSS-FLORIDA CANAL -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Failed Barge Canal Project Leads to Cross Florida Greenway," by Roger Bull.   Provides historical info about the effort to dig a trans-Florida canal. 

• WATERWAYS OF FLORIDA, 1921 -- "The Waterways of Florida Illustrated(:) A Review of the Development of the Waterways of Florida since the Spanish Possession" (Is from 1921) -- NOTE:  The entire text of this source is available online.  It's provided in the wonderful website called the "Florida Heritage Collection," maintained by the State University System of Florida.   When you get to the website, you can search by keywords.  Just type in "Jacksonville," or "Duval County," or other keywords, such as words from a title.  ALSO NOTE: Most of the individual Jacksonville items in the Florida Heritage Collection are listed in JacksonvilleStory.com, the site you're now in.