To build the Erie Canal, they used mules, horses and thousands of Irishmen with shovels and wheelbarrows. Benjamin Wright was the chief engineer. Wright and his men invented the stump puller and adapted a plow to cut brush.
money was sold to the government to help build the erie canal
It toke 8 years to build the Erie Canal.
The Erie Canal was important to build because it aided trade and agriculture in the Midwest.
The Erie Canal took 8 years. It took ten years to build the Panama Canal.
to transport goods
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Erie Canal and it made that much back in two years.
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Erie Canal and it made that much back in two years.
To build the Erie Canal, they used mules, horses and thousands of Irishmen with shovels and wheelbarrows. Benjamin Wright was the chief engineer. Wright and his men invented the stump puller and adapted a plow to cut brush.
Stump pullers, shovels, and wheel barrows werer used to build the canal.
It took eight years to build the Erie Canal.
They didn't have earth moving machines back then. The Erie Canal was dug by hand with some animal help.
The Miami and Erie Canal was under construction in 1825 and finished in 1845. It connects Cincinnati to Toledo.