This essay focuses on the Erie Canal. Now that you have read a little bit about the Erie Canal, try to imagine that you live in the mid-1820s, along the canal route and it has just opened.
Firstly, Now that you have read a little bit about the Erie Canal,
Secondly, try to imagine that you live in the mid-1820s,
Thirdly, along the canal route and it has just open.
In addition, Would you be glad at this event, or not?
Further, What sorts of things would now change about your life?
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The Erie Canal in New York is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, originally stretching for 363 miles (584 km) from the Hudson River in Albany to Lake Erie in Buffalo. Completed in 1825, it was the second longest canal in the world (after the Grand Canal in China) and greatly enhanced the development and economy of the cities of New York, including Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and New York City, as well as the United States.[2] This was in part due to the new ease of transport of salt and other goods, and industries that developed around those.[3][4]
The canal was first proposed in the 1780s, then re-proposed in 1807. A survey was authorized, funded, and executed in 1808. Proponents of the project gradually wore down opponents; its construction began in 1817, and it opened on October 26, 1825. The canal has 34 numbered locks starting with Black Rock Lock and ending downstream with the Troy Federal Lock. Both are owned by the federal government.[1] It has an elevation difference of about 565 feet (172 m).[5]