Cross Florida Barge Canal Ocklawaha

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The Cross Florida Barge Canal was a canal project to connect the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean across Florida for barge traffic. Two sections were built but the project was cancelled, mainly for environmental reasons. It is now a protected green belt corridor, one mile (1.6 km) wide in most places, known as the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway.
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Coordinates:   29°28'3"N   81°49'3"W

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  • I'm glad they never completed that canal and left Florida as a peninsula instead.
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