Who Was A.B. Nichols | Photo Gallery Interactive Map Explore the Timeline The Lure of the Pacific | Photo Gallery Envisioning a Canal | Photo Gallery Prelude to the Railroad | Photo Gallery Panama Railroad | Photo Gallery The French Plan | Photo Gallery French Attempt | Photo Gallery Fighting the Fever | Photo Gallery Making the Dirt Fly | Photo Gallery Somebody Dying Every Day | Photo Gallery Life in the Zone | Photo Gallery Locks | Photo Gallery A Century of Progress | Photo Gallery “As soon as it became known that the U.S. had ‘taken over’ the Panama Canal there was a rush to the Isthmus from all directions.”