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The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes , vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians .
The escarpment was a major obstacle in the construction of the Erie Canal in New York and was traversed by a series of locks; the community which grew up at the site thus became known as Lockport, New York. [4] The Welland Canal allows ships to traverse the escarpment between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. [5]
The Clinton–Kalamazoo Canal is a canal in Michigan that was abandoned after being only partially completed. The canal was to connect Lake St. Clair with Lake Michigan. Project backers were inspired by the success of the Erie Canal in New York, which was completed in 1825. After gaining statehood in 1837, Michigan elected its first governor ...
The Erie Canal opened in 1825, allowing settlers from New England and New York to reach Michigan by water through Albany and Buffalo. This route opening and the incorporation of Chicago, Illinois in 1837, [2] increased Great Lakes steamboat traffic from Detroit through the Straits of Mackinac to Chicago. [3] [4] City of Cleveland (circa 1941)
The Genesee River ( / ˌdʒɛnɪˈsiː / JEN-iss-EE) is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States. The river contains several waterfalls in New York at Letchworth State Park and Rochester. The river was historically used as a border between the lands of the Seneca to ...
The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal provided traders with access from the Great Lakes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Over 460 miles long, it was the longest canal ever built in North America. The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and ...
The Genesee Valley Canal is a former canal that operated in western New York between 1840 and 1878. [1] It ran for a length of 124 miles, passing through 106 locks . [ 1 ] Its course was later used by the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad and today comprises portions of the Genesee Valley Greenway .
City buys canal land. Utica Mayor Fred Douglas and members of the Common Council agree to buy from the state for $500,000 the abandoned old Erie Canal strip of land that runs through the city. The ...