Floating time capsule: Replica boat retraces historic Erie Canal journey 200 years later | Local News
GLENVILLE — Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat…
The Erie Canal: How a ‘big ditch’ transformed America’s economy, culture and even religion | Conversation
Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by…