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Canal Discovery w/ Doug Farley

CANAL DISCOVERY: Tonawanda Creek is part of the canal

The construction of the Erie Canal between Lockport and Lake Erie was part of the western section of the canal, which contained two very challenging segments for the canal engineers. ....more>>

  • CANAL DISCOVERY: Rochester’s subway through the years
    The City of Rochester was faced with an interesting dilemma after New York state opened the Erie Barge Canal in 1918.
  •  CANAL DISCOVERY: Commerce in 1948
    Most baby-boomers still have vivid recollections of watching barges and other large boats laden with cargo as they plied the water of the Erie Barge Canal in the 1940s and ’50s.
  •  CANAL DISCOVERY: Thomas Woodcock’s canal travels
    In 1836, Thomas S. Woodcock made the trip from Schenectady to Buffalo and recorded his experience aboard a packet boat.
  •  CANAL DISCOVERY: Eminent domain
    Before the first shovel went in the ground, the construction of the Erie Canal would require a great deal of land acquisition by the Canal commissioners, if they were going to succeed in their mission to cut a 100-foot wide swath through 363 miles of New York state.
  • CANAL DISCOVERY: Catching up with ‘Cappy’
    No history of Lockport and its Erie Canal heritage would be complete without a chapter about the community’s pop-icon, “Cappy.” Like the Erie Canal itself, “Cappy” and his canal-boat have developed their own local legend.
  •  CANAL DISCOVERY: State of the state 1825
    By 1825, Gov.DeWitt Clinton had “ridden” the Erie Canal to a position of political prominence in New York state that put him at the top of the heap. Even as early as 1825, one can gain insight into this national icon’s ability through Clinton’s first address to the state.
  • CANAL DISCOVERY: Birdsall Holly was Lockport's most important inventor
    Few today would argue the point that Birdsall Holly was Lockport’s most important inventor. Holly eventually earned over 150 patents for his many inventions, second in number only to Thomas Edison.
  •  CANAL DISCOVERY: Railroads compete with canals throughout N.Y.
    Shortly after the opening success of the Erie Canal in 1825, other experiments were taking place to advance transportation around New York state. A system of lateral canals that connected far flung destinations to “Mother Erie” began to crop up all across the state.
  • CANAL DISCOVERY: Ely Parker’s canal connections
    When we think about the Sachems or wise men of the Iroquois Nation, we don’t usually think about the Erie Canal. However, the story of the Erie Canal is indeed interwoven into the life of Ely Parker, one of the most important Native Americans born in the 19th century.
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