The Erie Canal was a man-made marvel that most believed an impossible feat. Built to create a navigable water route from Albany to Buffalo, New York, The Erie Canal was a man-made marvel that most believed an impossible feat. It was a 363-mile waterway connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River in Upstate New York. The canal transformed New … [Read more...] about The Erie Canal: Engineering Marvel
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10 Places to Learn about New York’s Erie Canal
By Sandra Scott The Erie Canal is a New York State treasure. In the early 1800s when New York governor DeWitt Clinton proposed building a canal that would connect the navigable Hudson River to Lake Erie by a 300-mile canal through the wilderness, Thomas Jefferson said, “It is a splendid project and may be executed a century hence … but it is a little short of madness to … [Read more...] about 10 Places to Learn about New York’s Erie Canal