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This Quaint Ohio City Is A Charming Getaway With A Walkable Downtown, Unique Shops, And Historic Canals

While cities get much of the attention, smaller communities across the country are home to vivid displays of history and ...
Times Union

The Erie Canal built New York. But it came with a cost.

Success may have many fathers, but the Erie Canal, 200 years old this fall, owes its success to at least one mother: Mother Nature. When the last great glacier melted in this region, it left behind an ...
insider.si.edu

Ohio canal era : a case study of government and the economy, 1820-1861 / Harry N. Scheiber

With a new preface by the author. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!375186~!0#focus ...

How the Erie Canal channeled new ideas and religious movements, including the LDS Church

Over District” gave birth to new churches after the Erie Canal’s creation: Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often known as Mormons, in Fayette, New York, in 1830.
PBS

You’ve Never Heard Erie Canal History Told Like This

One woman’s lifelong connection to the Erie Canal, told from her home beside the lock. Step inside a personal canal-side museum in Lyons, NY, where one woman shares her vivid memories of growing up ...