The Canal That Changed America: The lively history, unique communities and vital economic and social impact of New York’s Erie Canal Ownership:Pediment " Volume II contains even

" Volume II contains even more photos than the first and more photos from earlier eras

plus new content

You'll meet the coaches who run the mascot program

This time we are focusing the book on the early years that helped shape Erie — the 1800s - 1939

The Canal That Changed America: The lively history, unique communities and vital economic and social impact of New York’s Erie Canal Ownership:Pediment " Volume II contains evenThey called it "Clinton's Folly." Two centuries later, it looks like genius. When New York Governor DeWitt Clinton proposed a 363 mile canal connecting the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, the skeptics were loud. They were also wrong. The Erie Canal moved goods, people and ideas across the state, and the cities that grew up along it, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and farther west to Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago, became industrial powerhouses. New