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		<title>The City&#8217;s Whale-Oil Pipeline</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Vermeulen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the city&#8217;s post-Civil War boom, a panel of eminent politicians, including the governor, mayor and state surgeon general, met to plan the future growth of the city. Several advances were made. In an effort to provide more room for growth, Bankton&#8217;s Marsh was filled in with refuse, which increased the size of the city by 30%. This created space for growth (The land is now occupied by the tony neighborhood of South Bay), but also additional demand for resources, particularly whale oil, which fueled the city&#8217;s street lights, homes and the lanterns needed for round-the-clock mill work. Anticipating the need for millions of gallons of whale oil to keep the city growing, the city fathers embarked on an ambitious scheme- the digging of a 20-mile underground pipeline to the nearest whale intake port downriver (newly-constructed and larger than the city&#8217;s ports), which would allow them first access to the ships loaded with whale carcasses. Work began immediately, but problems arose soon after. For the unprecedented construction, the engineers drew inspiration from the Roman aqueducts, even traveling to Spain and trying to recreate scale reconstructions. &#8220;These ducts have lasted for hundreds of years, and that&#8217;s the kind of ducts we [...]]]></description>
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