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1. wellandcanal.com
- www.wellandcanal.com
- This Welland Canal website provides information on Niagara's man made wonder, the Welland Canal. ...
2. erie-canal-pop-quiz-berkshire-television-project
- www.berkshiretv.com
- Take the Erie canal quiz and test your memory 1. WHEN WAS THE ORIGINAL ERIE CANAL COMPLETED? 2. WHO WAS THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK WHEN THE CANAL WAS BUILT ? 3. ORIGINAL COST OF THE ERIE CANAL PROJECT WAS A LITTLE OVER? 4. HOW LONG WAS THE ORIGINAL ERIE CANAL? 5. HOW WIDE WAS THE ORIGINAL ERIE CANAL? 6. HOW DEEP WAS THE ORIGINAL ERIE CANAL? CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO THE ERIE CANAL PAGE CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO THE FINGER LAKES CHAPTER A. ...
3. The Erie Canal
- www.eriecanal.org
- Home | Canal System | Images | Maps | 175th Anniversary Locks | Traces | Books | Music | Links NEW! All Images pages have been reorganized and many new images loaded. ...
- The Erie Canal is famous in song and story. Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. ...
- In order to open the country west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlers and to offer a cheap and safe way to carry produce to a market, in 1808, Governor Dewitt Clinton proposed the construction of a canal. However, it was not until July 4, 1817 that Governor Clinton finally broke ground for the construction of the canal. ... It included 18 aqueducts to carry the canal over ravines and rivers, and 83 locks, with a rise of 568 feet from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. ... A ten foot wide towpath was built along the bank of the canal for horses, mules, and oxen led by a boy boat driver or "hoggee". ...
- In order to keep pace with the growing demands of traffic, the Erie Canal was enlarged between 1836 and 1862 to a width of 70 feet and a depth of 7 feet, and the number of locks was reduced to 72. ...
- In 1903, the State again decided to enlarge the canal by the construction of what was termed the "Barge Canal", consisting of the Erie Canal and the three chief branches of the State system -- the Champlain, the Oswego, and the Cayuga and Seneca Canals. The resulting canal was completed in 1918, and is 12 to 14 feet deep, 120 to 200 feet wide, and 363 miles long, from Albany to Buffalo. ... This is the Erie Canal which today is utilized largely by recreational boats rather than cargo-carrying barges. ...
- This web site, although devoted to the history of the Erie Canal in general, focuses on the central portion of the canal from Palmyra (Lock 29) to Lockport (Locks 34 and 35), and particularly on the area in the vicinity of the City of Rochester. The original canal went right through downtown Rochester and crossed the Genesee River on a major aqueduct. The first enlargement of the canal replaced the original aqueduct, which leaked, with a new, improved aqueduct which still exists in the guise of the Broad Street Bridge. The last enlargement of the canal bypassed Rochester, and now goes through the Genesee River south of the city. Other interesting aspects of this section of the canal include the remains of several early canal structures in Macedon and Palmyra, the Lift Bridge in Fairport, which is an engineering curiosity due to the slope and angle of the bridge, and the locks at Lockport, where the current double 24 1/2 foot high locks are adjacent to one sequence of the original 5 lock pairs.
4. Erie Canal - Locks
- www.eriecanal.org
- Home | Canal System | 175th Anniversary | Images | Maps | Locks | Traces | Books | Music | Links Locks on the Erie Canal .
- The Erie Canal rises 566 feet from the Hudson River to Lake Erie through 57 (originally 83) locks. From tide-water level at Troy, the Erie Canal rises through a series of locks in the Mohawk Valley to an elevation of 420 feet above sea-level at the summit level at Rome. Continuing westward, it descends to an elevation of 363 feet above sea-level at the junction with the Oswego Canal, and finally rises to an elevation of 565. ...
- In the early days of the canal, when horses and mules walked the towpath, this is how a canal boat passed through a lock:.
- The official New York State Canal System web site has a page explaining How to "Lock Through" Canal System Locks.
- The original Erie Canal locks were 90 feet long and 15 feet wide, and were designed for a canal boat 61 feet long and 7 feet wide, with a 3 1/2 foot draft. ...
- See the Canal Profile for the height and location of the current locks.
5. Canal Boats
- ina.tamu.edu
- The Canal Boat Wrecks of Lake Champlain.
- 5 km) Champlain Canal in 1825. This canal linked the upper Hudson River at Troy, New York with the southern end of Lake Champlain at Whitehall, New York. The canal lives on today as part of the New York State Barge Canal system. ...
- Remnants of the earlier locks and channels from the Champlain Canal can also be found in the woods and fields of upstate New York.
- During the heyday of the Champlain Canal, between 1823 and the early twentieth century, thousands of canal boats passed between Lake Champlain and the Hudson River, transporting raw materials and finished products, linking the farmers and merchants of the Champlain Valley with the rest of the world. Canal boats were by far the most common type of working craft to ply the waters of Lake Champlain. Here three standard (towed) canal boats lie alongside the entrance to the locks at Whitehall. These boxy vessels efficiently and inexpensively transported heavy cargoes, and at the same time served as home for canal boatmen and their families.
- Standard canal boats had to be towed to their destinations, either by mules on the canals or by steamers on lakes and rivers; here a raft of canal boats passes down the lake in tow behind a tugboat.
- Because they traveled the lake in huge numbers, because they wore out like any other kind of wooden vessel, and because they were helpless in all kinds of rough weather, canal boats sank to the bottom of the lake in great numbers. ...
- The wreck of yet another luckless canal boat, sunk with a cargo of cut stone blocks off Diamond Island. Despite their ubiquity (or perhaps because of it), the canal boat wrecks of Lake Champlain have undergone only limited archaeological study. ...
- In recent years an effort has been made to document the remains of Lake Champlains canal boats and canal era, especially since the invasion of zebra mussels threatens to obscure many details on these wrecks. ... Paul Johnston, Curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution, records the bow construction of a canal boat sunk near Potash Point on the Vermont shore.
- This canal boat, carrying a load of stone, hit the bottom hard and literally burst apart at the seams.
6. How the Panama Canal works plus canal history, java animation
- www.ared.com
- Java Animation explaining the operation of the Panama Canal, expect about 55 seconds downloadtime w/ 28. ...
- Panama Canal.
- Some interesting facts: * A ship traveling from New York to San Francisco can save 7'872 miles using the Panama Canal instead of going around South America. ... * The highest Canal toll was US $ 141,344. 91 paid by the Crown Princess and the lowest toll ever paid was 36 cents by Richard Halliburton for swimming the Canal in 1928. ...
- documents, links, books and stories from the Online Panama Canal History Museum.
7. Erie Canal
- www.canals.org
- Erie Canal.
- The Erie Canal was the most famous and successful of America's early towpath canals. The Erie Canal was able to breach the barrier of the Appalachian Mountains and link Lake Erie with the Hudson River. The Erie Canal was also an integral part of a larger system of New York state canals which bound together the Hudson River with Lake Champlain and the Canadian canals that flowed to the St. ... Branches of this New York State Canal also linked the Finger Lakes and reached the Susquehanna River System.
- The ancestor of the Erie Canal was the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company which was chartered by the New York State Legislature in 1792. ... After experiencing immense technical and financial difficulties, the Western Inland Navigation company did create a one mile canal to by-pass the Little Falls of the Mohawk River. Although the company collected tolls for use of its canal, its revenue barely provided enough funds to keep its locks in working order.
- Despite the limited success of the Western Inland Locks Navigation Company, many prominent commercial and political leaders began to call for the creation of a state built canal that would cross New York to link the Hudson river with Lake Erie. ... His advocacy of what would become the Erie Canal won him election as Governor of New York in 1817. On July 4, 1817, ground was broken for the Erie Canal at a site near Rome, NY. Few present at this impressive ceremony realized the tremendous task that awaited the canal's builders. The Erie Canal would be over 363 miles long and its builders would have to overcome rivers, swamps, and hills. ... The canal would have a uniform depth of 4 feet. The entire canal would have an ascent and descent of 675 feet which would be overcome through use of 83 locks. Eighteen aqueducts would carry the canal over rivers and large streams. Numerous bridges had to be built across the canal to accommodate roads and farms which were severed by the waterway.
8. PanamaCanalMuseum.org
- www.panamacanalmuseum.org
- Preserve and sustain the unique heritage of the American Era with a donation to the Panama Canal Museum. ...
- 22 featuring Panama Canal WWII memories. ...
- Keep the spirit of the Canal Zone and Panama alive in your home with exclusive items from the Museum shop. ...
- ©2004 Panama Canal Museum | Contact Us » | Related Links » | Site Credits ».
9. Pennsylvania Canal Society, welcome to our website
- www.pa-canal-society.org
- Canal Sites.
- National Canal.
- Pennsylvania's Canal Era.
- Over the mighty Allegheny Mountains went the canal system. The echo of the boatmen's conch was heard far into the deep river valleys as the canal boats were pulled by horses and mules through Penn's woods.
- You can still experience some of the long forgotten canal era which moved travelers and goods before the railroads snorted and smoked their way across our nation. ... Some of these are outlined for you on the canal sites page.
- Canal Society C/O National Canal Museum 30 Centre Sq. ...
10. The Panama Canal
- www.smplanet.com
- Panama Canal: .
- Now that America's empire stretched from the Caribbean across the Pacific, the old idea of a canal between the two oceans took on new urgency. Mahan had predicted that "the canal will become a strategic center of the most vital importance," and Teddy agreed. ...
- "The canal," Roosevelt said, "was by far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was President. ...
- In 1878 Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French engineer who built the Suez Canal, began to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, which was then part of Colombia. Tropical disease and engineering problems halted construction on the canal, but a French business (the New Panama Canal Company) still held the rights to the project. ...
- at once occupy the Isthmus anyhow, and proceed to dig the canal. ...
- Biographical info about Osmund Osmundsen, a Norwegian immigrant who worked as a ship rigger during the building of the canal. ...
- The chief engineer of the New Panama Canal Company organized a local revolt. ... The rebels gladly accepted Roosevelt's $10 million offer, and they gave the United States complete control of a ten-mile wide canal zone.
- Steam shovels digging the Panama Canal .
- Smithsonian Institution's "Make the Dirt Fly" Panama Canal exhibition .
- "I took the isthmus, started the canal, and then left Congress -- not to debate the canal, but to debate me. ... While the debate goes on, the canal does too; and they are welcome to debate me as long as they wish, provided that we can go on with the canal. ...
11. The Erie Canal
- www.history.rochester.edu
- Erie Canal .
- View of Erie Canal by John William Hill, 1829. ...
- "Through the channel of the Erie Canal. ...
- | Visit the official WWW page of the New York State Canal System at: http://www. ...
- The Erie Canal had an enormous impact on New York and America in the nineteenth century. University of Rochester students are writing the history of the Erie Canal and its successor, the New York State Barge Canal, to be placed on line here. ...
- Chronology of the Erie Canal .
- Topographical map of canal west of Rochester - (215k) .
- Evolution of boats used on Erie Canal, 1825-1899 .
- Evolution of canal cross section (prism), 1825-1899 .
- Laws relating to the canal .
- The Struggle to Plan the New Canal .
- Opening the Canal .
- The Canal Economy .
- Canal Industries .
- The Canal Expands .
12. The Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio
- www.cr.nps.gov
- The Ohio & Erie Canal:.
- ow bridge, everybody down! yells the canal boat captain. ... He must always compensate for the sideward pull of the mule team that plods along the edge of the canal tugging on ropes attached to the boat. ...
- Gliding gracefully along the Ohio & Erie Canal, the boat is heavily laden with lumber on its way north to Lake Erie where it will be transferred to a lake freighter and sent to Buffalo and the Erie Canal. ...
- Ohio & Erie Canal.
- Cross section of the Ohio & Erie Canal.
- Workers repairing the canal.
- Wash day on the canal.
- Canal boat family.
- Life on the Ohio & Erie Canal.
- This lesson is based on the Ohio & Erie Canal, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. ...
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