The Erie Canal Museum is a historical museum about the Erie Canal located in Syracuse, New York. The museum was founded in 1962 and is a private, non-profit...
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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...
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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...
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Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio. It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in...
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The Beaver and Erie Canal, also known as the Erie Extension Canal, was part of the Pennsylvania Canal system and consisted of three sections: the Beaver...
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The Old Erie Canal State Historic Park encompasses a 36-mile (58 km) linear segment of the original Erie Canal's Long Level section. It extends westward...
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DeWitt Clinton (category Erie Canal)
last capacity, he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal. Clinton was a major candidate for the American presidency in the election...
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Camillus Erie Canal Park is a town park in Camillus, New York, that preserves a seven-mile (11 km) stretch of the Erie Canal. It includes the Nine Mile...
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Canalside (redirect from Erie Canal Harbor)
Canalside, formerly known as Canal Side and also referred to as Erie Canal Harbor, is a commercial and residential district in downtown Buffalo, New York...
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mid-west was greatly accelerated by the Erie Canal. The profits generated by the Erie Canal project started a canal building boom in the United States that...
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Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus,...
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Canastota, New York (section The Erie Canal)
in 1835, but was reorganized in 1870. Located along the banks of the Erie Canal, which was completed through the Mohawk River valley by 1825, Canastota...
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Day Peckinpaugh (redirect from DAY PECKINPAUGH, (canal motorship))
specially designed and built for New York State Barge Canal, the successor to the famed Erie Canal. The ship was originally named ILI101 after the ship's...
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Tonawanda, New York (redirect from Tonawanda (city), Erie County, New York)
opening of the Erie Canal, completed in the course of the creek in 1825. The Town of Tonawanda was incorporated in 1836. The Erie Canal and the railroads...
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Lockport, New York (category Erie Canal)
Its name derives from a set of Erie Canal locks (Lock Numbers 34 and 35) within the city that were built to allow canal barges to traverse the 60-foot...
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The Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, formerly known as The Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Park, is a museum on the bank of the Buffalo River...
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The Chenango Canal was a towpath canal in central New York in the United States which linked the Susquehanna River to the Erie Canal. Built and operated...
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Milan, Ohio (redirect from Milan Canal (Ohio))
local investors proposed a ship canal that would make Milan a lake port that could conveniently connect to the new Erie Canal, allowing direct regional commerce...
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Historic Site, also known as Erie Canal National Historic Landmark, is a historic district that includes the ruins of the Erie Canal aqueduct over Schoharie...
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major crossroads over the last two centuries, first of the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then on the railway network. The city grew on the back of...
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Lake Erie (/ˈɪri/ EER-ee; French: Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest...
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some having included Vera House, the Erie Canal Museum, the Syracuse Children's Chorus, and the Everson Museum of Art. He is also a member of the Republican...
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the Susquehanna River near York Haven. Spurred by construction of the Erie Canal (constructed between 1817 and 1825) and the perceived competitive advantage...
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State of New York, in Relation to the Erie and Champlain Canals. Vol. II. State of New York. 8 February 1825. pp. 254–6. Erie Canal — The Weigh Lock...
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Waterford Flight (category Erie Canal)
The Waterford Flight is a set of locks on the Erie Canal in upstate New York. Erie Canal Locks E-2 through E-6 make up the combined flight at Waterford...
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Buffalo, New York (redirect from Museums in Buffalo, New York)
Buffalo was selected as the terminus of the Erie Canal, which led to its incorporation in 1832. The canal stimulated its growth as the primary inland...
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Chittenango Landing Dry Dock Complex (category Erie Canal parks, trails, and historic sites)
dock for canal boats on the old Erie Canal. The original complex was built in 1856 and abandoned after this section of the "enlarged" Erie canal was bypassed...
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Syracuse, New York (redirect from Museums in Syracuse, New York)
historically functioned as a major crossroads, first between the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then of the railway network. Today, the city is at the intersection...
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Canals (PDF) (Booklet). New York State Canal Corporation. Retrieved September 25, 2012. Sheriff, Carol (1996). The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and...
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Culture and parks Annual events Burnet Park Erie Canal Museum Everson Museum of Art Pass Arboretum Museum of Science and Technology New York State Fair...
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