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What does Erie canal do?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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The Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825 under the direction of New York State Governor De Witt Clinton.

It runs East-West across NY State from near Albany (on the Hudson River) 363 mile west to Lake Erie

, near Buffalo. It opened up the entire Great Lakes system to water borne freight from the East Coast ports on the Atlantic.

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