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It took eight years to dig the Erie Canal.
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The Miami and Erie Canal was under construction in 1825 and finished in 1845. It connects Cincinnati to Toledo.
Construction of the Erie Canal began in Rome, New York. At one time or another there were around 50,000 people who worked on the canal.
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One result of the Erie Canal is that it was faster to get from one place to another from up the Hudson into the Erie Canal and after you can get any where from there. An even bigger benefit was the reduction in cost of transportation.
The Erie Canal was used for boats. Back then, they used horse and buggy. It was much quicker to go by boat. So they built the Erie Canal. They used to used it for traveling. Nowadays, it is used mostly for tours.
There is No great lake directly connected to New York city. They are all several hundred miles away to the north. For a boat to sail from the great lakes to New York city, they either have to travel south from the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Hudson river to NYC. Or they have to travel east along the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany, then take the Hudson river to NYC.
Yes. You can take the Welland Canal, a ship canal that runs 42 km (27.0 miles) from Port Colborne, Ontario on Lake Erie to Port Weller, Ontario on Lake Ontario.
Some of the canals have been shut down but what is left, you can take a boat the entire way.
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