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Erie Canal and transportation today
July 4, 1817, the Canal construction began at Rome, NY. It was in 1798 when Niagara Canal Company incorporated to build a canal between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and on July 12, 1807, a letter from Jesse Hawley to Erastus Granger a projection of Erie Canal.( http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/chron.htm) The boats used on the canal evolved as well the canal itself. The Erie Canal, built across New York State, opened in 1825 introducing the Midwest to development and helped New York City become a worldwide trading center. The Erie Canal unleashed an enormous series of social and economic changes in the young nation
The New York Governor DeWitt Clinton proposed a Canal from Buffalo on the eastern shore of Lake Erie to Albany on the upper Hudson River, a distance of almost 400 miles. In 1817, Clinton convinced the State legislature to allow $7 million for construction of a Canal 363 ...
July 4, 1817, the Canal construction began at Rome, NY. It was in 1798 when Niagara Canal Company incorporated to build a canal between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and on July 12, 1807, a letter from Jesse Hawley to Erastus Granger a projection of Erie Canal.( http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/chron.htm) The boats used on the canal evolved as well the canal itself. The Erie Canal, built across New York State, opened in 1825 introducing the Midwest to development and helped New York City become a worldwide trading center. The Erie Canal unleashed an enormous series of social and economic changes in the young nation
The New York Governor DeWitt Clinton proposed a Canal from Buffalo on the eastern shore of Lake Erie to Albany on the upper Hudson River, a distance of almost 400 miles. In 1817, Clinton convinced the State legislature to allow $7 million for construction of a Canal 363 ...
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