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The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal)

The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). Originally, it ran 363 miles (584 km) from the Hudson River in Albany to Lake Erie in Buffalo. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

But the Erie Canal overcame the natural barrier of those mountains. His book, The Forestport Breaks, was published in two thousand four. It helped open the American West. The canal made the United States a richer and stronger young nation. MARIO RITTER: The Erie Canal was five hundred eighty-four kilometers long, more than eight meters wide and one and one-half meters deep. It could not have been completed without the hard and dangerous labor of many workers. Historians say about one-third of the workers had recently moved to the United States from Ireland. Mister Doyle said he learned that his great-grandfather took part in the wrongdoing.

The Erie Canal Museum, founded in 1962, seeks to keep Erie Canal history and heritage alive. These early images highlight canal cities and towns and the people that gave these places their spirit and vibrancy. They display the beauty of nineteenth-century rural New York and take your imagination on a trip through a bygone era on the Erie Canal.

Opened in 1825, the Erie Canal was one of the most extraordinary engineering feats of the 19th century, connecting eastern ports and manufacturing with the rest. Explore eight ways that the Erie Canal, which married the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes, altered the course of American history. 1. The Erie Canal opened the Midwest to settlement. Prior to the construction of the Erie Canal, most of the United States population remained pinned between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Appalachian Mountains to the west

The Erie Canal was the nation's first major transportation system. He is the author of both a geography reference book and a guide to winning National Geography Bee contests.

The Erie Canal was the nation's first major transportation system. It allowed goods to be shipped to and from New York City and the Upper Midwest, starting the migration that created the USA as we know it today.

Official feed for book In DeWitt's Footsteps: Seeing History on the Erie Canal by ethsilber (pub. Sept 2017).

BOOKS: The Erie Canal has been featured in many works of fiction and non-fiction. This selected bibliography is only a brief sampling. Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Erie Canal ; illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh. Random House, c1953) 182 p. (Landmark books) - The author's retelling of stories of the methods of construction and early operation of the canal, told to him by his grandfather who "had a hand in i. Anderson, Patricia

The building of the Erie Canal was the engineering marvel that unleashed the growth of the young nation that was the United States.

The building of the Erie Canal was the engineering marvel that unleashed. The building of the Erie Canal was the engineering marvel that unleashed the growth of the young nation that was the United States. Spearheaded by the vision of Gov. Dewitt Clinton, New York State built the waterway that opened the West to settlement and made New York City the center of finance and commerce.