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You might try contacting the Erie Canal Museum.
The two problems were that it took 8 years to build it and the workers did not have the kinds of machines we have today . They used picks and shovels. And the workers were paid about 80 cents a day to a dollar a day..
Many of the immigrants that traveled the Erie Canal ended up in cities like Cleveland and Chicago. Some of the workers of the Erie Canal also worked on canals in Ohio and the Illinois Michigan canal near Chicago.
The Welland Canal.
The Erie Canal
One half of the workers on the Erie Canal came from Ireland, specifically Northern Ireland.
The Erie Canal was not cemented.
No the Erie Canal did not join the Ohio River. But New York was not the only state that built canals. The state of Ohio also built canals. The Miami and Erie Canal went to the Ohio River. The Erie and Ohio Canal also reached the Ohio River. Neither of these canals were as successful as the Erie Canal.
the Erie canal
The Ohio and Erie Canal linked Cleveland with Lake Erie.
the Erie Canal
The original length of the Erie Canal was 363 feet.