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The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that connects the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Learn about its construction, expansion, decline and revival, and see a map of its current and original routes.
Learn about the history, construction, operation and abandonment of the Ohio and Erie Canal, a 308-mile waterway that connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River. The canal was a major transportation and industrial asset in the 19th century, and some of its remains are preserved as historic landmarks.
Learn about the longest canal ever built in North America, which linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal passed through Delphi, Indiana, where a restored section of canal can be seen.
New Castle, which the Beaver and Erie served, was the eastern terminus of Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, which ran 91 miles (146 km) west to the Ohio and Erie Canal in Ohio. Another east–west canal, the French Creek Feeder, brought additional water into Conneaut Lake at the same time it provided a transportation corridor.
Learn about the history and features of the 274-mile canal that connected the Ohio River and Lake Erie in Ohio from 1825 to 1913. The canal was called the Ohio Rhineland by German settlers and faced competition from railroads.
The Old Erie Canal State Historic Park encompasses a 36-mile (58 km) linear segment of the original Erie Canal's Long Level section. It extends westward from Butternut Creek in the town of DeWitt, just east of Syracuse, to the outskirts of Rome, New York. The park includes restored segments of the canal's waterway and towpath which were in ...
Learn about the history and features of the Erie Canal and its aqueduct over Schoharie Creek, a National Historic Landmark. Explore the ruins of Fort Hunter, Queen Anne's Chapel, and the original canal lock and prism.
Workers manually dug the 82 miles (132 km) of the canal using picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows. The canal ran from New Castle, Pennsylvania to Akron, Ohio, where it met the Ohio and Erie Canal in downtown Akron. [2] [3] It ran along old Native American trails and the Cuyahoga and Mahoning Rivers.