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Building Of The Erie Canal
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Building of the Erie Canal
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it cost over 1 million dollars to build the erie canal
Lets first realize that construction of the Erie canal began in 1808 in a very rural upstate NY. Without actual records of land ownership it would be hard to tell if a home or two was displaced. However, many settlers welcomed the canal bec...
Refused funding by the federal government, the State of New York, after much political wrangling, authorized initial funding for the Erie Canal in 1817.
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It is not stated what type of harness was used to attach mules to barges while building the Erie canal.
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the Erie canal was built for transportation purposes. The canal open a waterway from the Hudson river in the east to Lake Erie in the west.
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The Erie canal was started on July 4th 1817 in Rome, New York. It was completed 8 years later in the fall of 1825, opening October 26th 1825.
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Built by the State of New York between 1817 and 1825, and then enlarged between 1836 and 1862, the canal linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic seaboard.
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they transport food with planes and mules.
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Then governor of New York DeWitt Clinton was a major advocate for the canal and it was originally called Clintons Folly and Clintons Ditch.
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Goods and raw materials were quickly and easily transported along the canal to increase their availability for construction.
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