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Howard Sargeant
Dictionary Plus Social Sciences
...Erie Canal A waterway in the USA. Running across New York state, it was built to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, from Albany on the Hudson River in the east to Buffalo on Lake Erie in the west. Its eastern terminal is now Lake Champlain. Length 840 km. Howard...
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Ronald E. Shaw
The Oxford Companion to United States History
...as well as goods, the canal promoted such diverse social reforms as religious revivalism , the women's rights movements , and temperance. Into the 1880s the Erie Canal surpassed the competing New York Central Railroad in its freight traffic, but by the late twentieth century it served mainly as a corridor for recreational and commercial development. See also Antebellum Era ; Canals and Waterways ; Early Republic, Era of the ; Railroads ; Temperance and Prohibition. Ronald E. Shaw , Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal 1792–1854 , 1966. Carol...
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Ronald E. Shaw and Hugh Richard Slotten
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
...Erie Canal surpassed the competing New York Central Railroad in its freight traffic, but by the late twentieth century it served mainly as a corridor for recreational and commercial development. [ See also Canals and Waterways ; Engineering ; and Railroads . ] Bibliography Shaw, Ronald E. Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal 1792–1854 . Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966. Sheriff, Carol . The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress 1817–1862 . New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. Union College . Erie Canal...
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World Encyclopedia
... Canal Waterway in New York state, between Buffalo and Albany, USA. It was built in 1817–25 , and was originally 584km (363mi) long. A commercial success, it contributed to the rapid growth of the Midwest...
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
... Canal , 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 unifying the nation. Governor Clinton authorized a thorough survey ( 1791 ), and work was begun two years later, but progress was slow until De Witt Clinton made the canal an issue in the gubernatorial campaign of 1817 . The canal was opened in 1825 , after an expenditure of more than $7,000,000 to create its length of 352 miles. Largely responsible for the...
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A. M. Mannion
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
...feeder canals. In 1918 the Erie Canal was replaced by the larger New York State Barge Canal, which followed much the same route and incorporated many existing canal sections while abandoning others. This was renamed the New York State Canal System in 2006 . The Erie Canal Corridor now covers 524 miles (843 kilometers). Following the creation of the U.S. railway network in the late 1800s and the road system of the twentieth century, canals became defunct as carriers of freight and people. Since the 1990s efforts have focused on transforming the canal system...
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Cindy R. Lobel
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...Erie Canal lowered the price of carrying heavy goods by 95 percent and sped the time of passage by a similar margin. Planners predicted the canal would carry 250,000 tons eastward annually. The canal more than delivered on its promise. In its first year, it surpassed that total by more than fifty thousand tons. In 1860 , 4,650,000 tons of goods crossed the canal. The canal yielded over $687,000 in tolls its first year. A decade later, that figure had doubled to over $1.375 million and by 1847 had reached well over $3 million. The success of the Erie Canal...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable
... Canal . A waterway, in the USA, that joins the Hudson River and Lake Erie. It was begun in 1817 and stretched for 581 km (363 miles) through the Mohawk Gap in the Appalachian Mountains. The finance came from New York state and was organized by De Witt Clinton ( 1769–1828 ), who served as governor for two terms ( 1817–22 and 1825–8 ), and in his unpleasant way strutted like a peacock at the opening of the canal on 25 October 1825 . The Erie Canal played a significant part in the drive of the American nation westwards, and it began a tradition of using...
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