Search results for "Erie Canal" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- 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
