Erie Canal

The Erie Canal was not cemented.

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Yes some called it the big ditch or Clinton's Ditch.

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These diagrams and maps may be helpful to you.

http://www.eriecanal.org/locks.html

http://www.eriecanal.org/UnionCollege/The_Lock.html

http://www.canals.ny.gov/maps/

The Erie Canal running across New York State was started in 1817 under the leadership of then Gov DeWitt Clinton. It was completed on Oct. 26, 1825, two years ahead of schedule.

Building of the Erie Canal began on July 4, 1817.

The Erie Canal is in New York state.

Albany was on the east end and Buffalo was on the west side of the canal.

The Erie Canal reduced the costs of shipping by 90%.

Railroads were faster than canals.

You could call the Erie Canal a "wedding of waters." It joined the Hudson River which has its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean at New York City to Albany. Then it joined rivers, lakes and marshes by digging ditches westward to Lake Erie.

It linked the Midwest and Great Lakes to the East and turned New York into America's largest port city.

The Erie Canal connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

The Hudson River connects with the Erie Canal. So does Lake Erie.

The Erie Canal, and other regional canals, really didn't have much impact nationally - but they did help their regions to prosper. The heyday for canals was in Britain in the mid to late 1700s, where they provided cheap and reliable transportation in regions where there were no - or very bad - roads. With a dirt road, a wagon drawn by oxen was cumbersome and slow, and couldn't carry very much. If it rained, the roads turned to mud, and nothing moved for days or weeks. With a canal, a single mule could pull several TONS, and if it rained, the canal got even better!

The Erie Canal was one of the few commercial canals built in the United States. First proposed in 1808, the canal linked Lake Erie on the west to the Hudson River on the east. Raw materials from the "west" - that's western New York State - could easily be transported to New York and the factories that lined the Hudson. And finished goods could easily be brought back "west".

Because of the elevation changes, a number of locks were required; this slowed down the canal boats. With the advent of the railroads, the canals became obsolete. Trains can easily climb shallow grades, while even small elevation changes required another lock. And it was easier to lay tracks than to dig a canal.

The cities along the Erie Canal became prosperous.

It starts at Albany NY and ends at Lake Erie.

The Cumberland Road and the Erie Canal where the first methods of transportation. As you can see obviously the Cumberland is a road and the Erie Canal is a canal. They were both also originally built by the government.

Boats came down the the Hudson river to Albany. From Albany the canal started. Waterways along the canal included: Cayuga Lake, Mohawk River, Montezuma Marsh, Irondequoit Creek, Genesee River, Niagara River and the Buffalo River. Finally at Buffalo, the canal reached Lake Erie.

Yes, there really was a canal at Canal Street. It existed until 1821 when it became so polluted and disease ridden, that the city had to drain it. There is an illustration of the canal in the book, "History of the City of New York: Its Origin, Rise and Progress," published in 1877. It's caption reads, "It resulted finally in a street one hundred feet wide with a ditch or open canal in its center bordered with shade trees, upon either side of which was a broad drive lined with habitations

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The Erie Canal was important to build because it aided trade and agriculture in the Midwest.

One reason that food prices dropped when the Erie Canal opened was that the cost of transporting food was reduced by using this waterway. The canal of 1825 made the cost of moving goods from inland to seaports faster and cheaper.