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From Albany to Buffalo, connects the Hudson River with Lake Erie. Gouverneur Morris first conceived the idea (1777), and Washington approved a plan suggested in 1783, as a means of ...

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Erie Canal. (1817)
in The Oxford Companion to United States History Length: 301 words
Erie Canal
in The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6) Length: 172 words
Erie Canal
in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World Length: 602 words
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