Search results for "Erie Canal" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ===Erie Canal=== The Erie Canal, one of the most ambitious engineering projects of ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 23:16, 21 October 2022
- [[Image:Port Robinson Ferry.jpg|thumb|300px|left|The Welland Canal]] obstacle in the construction of the Erie Canal in New York and was traversed ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- development in the U.S. when the Erie Canal provided a link, by way ... known as New England. By virtue of the Erie Canal it became a means for vital ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- activity following the War of 1812 with canal building on both sides of ... the Great Lakes, although it exceeds Lake Erie in volume (393 cubic miles ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- of larger boats; the construction of the Erie Canal from Buffalo, New York ... The seaway's opening is often credited with making the Erie Canal ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- Ocean from the Great Lakes when the Erie Canal opened in 1825. By 1848 ... after the development of the Erie Canal and the much later Welland ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- a way to oppose Clinton's plan for the Erie Canal in 1817. Van Buren supported a bill that raised money for the canal through state bonds, and ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- granted land abutting the proposed Wabash and Erie Canal. Work began on the Wabash and Erie Canal in 1832, on the Whitewater ...31 KB (4,480 words) - 18:55, 4 March 2024
- at the approximate location of the present Welland Canal. resistant Lockport formation between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. In doing ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- manufacturing capacity. To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles (502 ... much of its northern border defined by Lake Erie. Ohio's neighbors are ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- consumer of black powder was the Erie Canal in New York, which was started in 1817, was 585 km long, and took eight years to complete. ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
- Lakes. Work commenced in 1817, and the Erie Canal was finished in 1825 and ... first the Hudson River and then the Erie Canal. Today, railroad lines ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- of the lakes. Ice frequently covers Lake Erie but seldom fully covers the ... rails. The early nineteenth century Erie Canal and mid-twentieth century ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- had been turned into canals and connected to the Erie Canal. [[Image:Lucretiamott2.jpg|thumb|250px|Lucretia Mott ]] == Background == ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 09:46, 26 January 2023
- by being involved in the construction of the Erie Canal, in 1825. At the age of fourteen, her formal education ended when she became a rural schoolteacher ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- * The Niagara River, the river which flows between Lake Erie and Lake ... * Canal * Drought * Hydrology * Rain * Stream * Tributary ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- the Great Lakes. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, completed an all ... that the Midwest funneled into the Erie Canal contributed to the wealth ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- studied medicine and was a laborer on the Erie Canal. [http://www.nndb.com/people/047/000103735/ Benjamin F. Wade], Soylent Communications. Retrieved ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- Hudson in the autumn of 1825, the same year the Erie Canal opened, stopping first at West Point, then at Catskill Landing, where he ventured west high ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- Pennsylvania has 51 miles (82 kilometers) of coastline along Lake Erie and ... west by Ohio; and on the northwest by Lake Erie. The Delaware, Susquehanna ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- hauling coal in the Louisville and Portland Canal, the only man-made portion ... Ohio Valley were the Shawnee, Miami, Omaha, Erie, and Susquehannock. The first ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- Great Lakes that border Michigan are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan ... The population grew slowly until the opening of the Erie Canal in ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- all of Manhattan, and the opening of the Erie Canal, which connected the Atlantic ... expanded in 1819 with the opening of the Erie Canal, which gave New York an ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- they proceeded up the Hudson River and the Erie Canal to Lake Erie and then to Allegheny, Pennsylvania (present day Pittsburgh's northside neighborhoods ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- the age of nine, he and his family traveled the Erie Canal to Stark County, Ohio and called his father’s farm home for 12 years. ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 00:43, 11 August 2022
- preserve the watershed as a water source for the Erie Canal, which was vital to New York's economy at the time. In 1883, he was appointed superintendent ...25 KB (3,782 words) - 05:58, 15 June 2023
- led him to seek work as a surveyor on the Erie Canal. After this effort failed, his brother helped him get a job as a cabin boy on a New York vessel ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- features the Red Hook peninsula and the Erie Basin. Buttermilk Channel separates this part of the waterfront from Governors Island. Southwest ...28 KB (4,109 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- Treasury and, later, with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which connected New York's Atlantic port to the vast agricultural producers of the ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- City's control of western markets via the Erie Canal, Massachusetts turned to railroads. The Granite Railway in 1826 became the first commercial ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- task faced him. He was elected sheriff of Erie County, in 1870 and, while ... refused to promote Arthur's Nicaragua canal treaty, calling it an "entangling ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- who presided over the construction of the Erie Canal, Hamilton Fish, later to become United States Secretary of State, and Daniel D. Tompkins, who ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
