Following the Erie Canal, we wound up, as did its earliest passengers, at Niagara Falls.
Politicking nonetheless bedevilled the Erie Canal from its conception in 1807 to its completion 18 years later.
For excitement, instead of whitewater rafting down the Colorado River, he takes his family on a houseboat ride through the Erie Canal.
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Back home Morris was a key promoter of the Erie Canal, which made New York the commercial center of the new nation--and indeed of the world.
Then we drove north to the Erie Canal still, I am happy to report, open for business, though it's largely tourist cruises and pleasure boats today.
Even once impregnable mainstays like daily newspapers wonder whether the Web will do to them what railroads did to the Erie Canal more than 150 years ago.
First the Erie Canal--built straight through town in the 1820s--and then the railroads gave Syracuse the ability to make things and ship them out cheaply to faraway markets.
If we look at any major infrastructure project, whether the Erie Canal, the interstate highway system, even NASA, we see that it was a new technology that solved old problems.
Rise early the next morning and paddle 17 miles southeast to Waterloo village, located on a section of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal that links two of the state's Finger Lakes -- Cayuga and Seneca -- to the Erie Canal.
The two villages are about 65 miles east of Syracuse on opposite sides of the Mohawk River which connects the Erie Canal to the Hudson River and from there, the sea in a region known as the Mohawk Valley.
When the Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to the shores of Red Hook via the Hudson River in 1825, a new shipping centre was born, and by 1848 more than 800 homes, workers' boarding houses and warehouses had sprung up by the bustling docks.
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