1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Moore, with Jefferson’s Note, 21 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...and Kanawha Canal and a causeway near Washington. In 1806, TJ appointed Moore one of three commissioners to begin work on the Cumberland Road (later called the National Road). As the chief engineer for the Virginia Board of Public Works, Moore in 1820 reported on the feasibility of a canal along the Potomac River to Cumberland, Maryland, that became the first segment of the Chesapeake and...
2From James Madison to John Mason, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...Road. Moore (ca. 1759–1822) was a civil engineer and inventor who had a farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. From 1818 to 1822 he was the principal engineer at the Virginia Board of Public Works. Joseph Kerr (1765–1837) was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Ohio in 1792, where he served in several public capacities and became a leading businessman engaged in an extensive produce...
3To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 21 June 1813 (Madison Papers)
...Thomas Moore (d. 1822), a Quaker and a resident of Brookville, Maryland, supervised the construction of a causeway from Analostan Island to the Virginia shore of the Potomac between 1805 and 1810. As principal engineer to the Virginia Board of Public Works, he conducted a study in 1820 for the Potomac Company on the feasibility of constructing a canal between the Potomac and Ohio Rivers (
4To James Madison from James P. Preston, 14 June 1817 (Madison Papers)
Loammi Baldwin (1780–1838), a Harvard-educated lawyer and civil engineer, was employed by the Virginia Board of Public Works from 1817 to 1820. In 1821 he began work as engineer of the Union Canal in Pennsylvania, an undertaking that required him to design seventy-nine miles of canal, three dams, a lake, and a tunnel. He...
5Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
served on the Virginia Board of Public Works for a number of years. He was judge of the
6Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; Board of Public Works [index entry]
7James P. Preston to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; Board of Public Works [index entry]
8Thomas Jefferson to James P. Preston, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; Board of Public Works [index entry]
9Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; Board of Public Works [index entry]
10William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 25 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; Board of Public Works [index entry]