Hill's ditching machine laid drainage tiles at a record pace. The area was largely drained and settled over the next three decades. The development of ... Draining the swamp · Restoration · References

Farmers also began to bury inverted wooden troughs and then clay tile to under-drain the fields, and by 1880 more than fifty tile factories used the region's ...

10 июн. 2022 г. · Draining Ohio's Great Black Swamp was a feat of human effort and engineering. Restoring it will be even harder.

17 янв. 2023 г. · European settlers used many methods to drain their lands, but once clay was discovered underneath the mud, tiles quickly came into use. In ...

When the leaves from the trees and other plant material fell into the water, they decomposed and the water turned black. ... As a result, the draining of the ...

Individual farmers continued to dry out their fields by plowing trenches across them, using wooden troughs laid underground, and eventually with clay tiles and ...

31 мар. 2017 г. · After settlers cleared the Black Swamp of its trees and drained it, they found themselves in possession of some of the most productive farmland ...

31 июл. 2020 г. · The Great Black Swamp was drained thanks to thousands of miles of tile buried beneath the rich farmland. The Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher ...

The swamp had cleaned mud from the. Maumee River, Lake Erie's second-biggest tributary. Today, people are replanting field buffers of native trees and plants, ...