Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor (New York)
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Embark on an enthralling road trip along the Erie Canal, exploring its historical significance, engineering marvels, and the beautiful landscapes it traverses. This video serves as a comprehensive guide, bringing to life the rich tapestry of stories and sights along this iconic waterway.
Highlights:
-Buffalo's Canalside: The starting point of our journey, showcasing Buffalo's transformation and its pivotal role in the canal's history.
-Lockport's Flight of Five Locks: A testament to engineering ingenuity, and a deep dive into the canal's creation at the Erie Canal Discovery Center.
-Medina Culvert and Statewide Bike Trail: Unique structures like the only road-under-canal and a scenic bike trail that offers a different perspective of the canal.
-Rochester's Industrial Heritage: Where the Erie Canal meets the Genesee River, highlighting Rochester's growth and the High Falls area.
-Seneca Falls' Historical Significance: Linking the canal with the Women's Rights Movement, featuring key museums and the National Women's Hall of Fame.
-Lyons - A Canal Multifaceted Hub: Offering a comprehensive canal experience with its lock, dam, murals, and ruins.
-Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse: Delving into the canal's rich history through interactive exhibits in the only remaining weighlock building.
-Saratoga and Revolutionary War Sites: Exploring significant historical sites near the canal that played pivotal roles in American history.
-Mohawk Valley Welcome Center and Lock E18: The meeting point of the man-made canal and the naturally flowing Mohawk River, highlighting the canal's evolution.
-Champlain Canal's Hidden Treasures: Exploring this concurrent canal, from historical sites to the serene landscapes of upstate New York.
Recommended Resources:
-eriecanalway.org/ Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor for historical insights and event information.
-www.canals.ny.gov/history/his... New York State Canal System
To learn more about Women's Rights National Historical Park: • Women's Rights Nationa...
In addition to my footage and photography from the trip I used public footage from the following:
-Niagara Falls and the Erie Canal Trail-Ryan and Ali Bike Across America-Ep 31 - Ryan Van Duzer
-Cycling the Beautiful Erie Canal Trail-Ryan and Ali Bike Across America-Ep 32 - Ryan Van Duzer
-Cycling The Erie Canal to New Paltz-Ryan and Ali Bike Across America-Ep 33 - Ryan Van Duzer
-Erie Canal Lock 17 - Little Falls, NY June 2013 -John Albertine
-Erie Canal Part 1 from Lake Ontario to Little Falls (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 15 - Sailing SV Catsaway
-Erie Canal Part 2 from Little Falls to the Hudson (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 16 - Sailing SV Catsaway
-Erie Canal Sunrise - Travels & Discoveries
-Exploring the Erie Canal on a Sea Doo - Tonawanda NY - Lake Erie Vlogger
-Flight of Five Descent on the Erie Canal - Sailing SV Catsaway
-Time Lapse of locks 34 &35 in Lockport NY on the Erie Canal - Grandpa Carls Sailing and Diving Adventure
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-Erie Canal bike path
-The National Archives
-Library of Congress
Ive watched every youtube about the erie canal....this is the very best.
That's very kind of you to say, I'm glad so many people are enjoying the video!
OS-WEEE-GO. I live 25 min from Seneca Falls and have never seen main street so bare!
I did my best with pronunciations, so sorry to disappoint. Hopefully all of the comments with the correct pronunciations will fill in the viewers.
And no cars so it.s 5am
Lived in Rochester in mid 60's & experienced the beauty & industry connected the Erie Canal. Thanks for the memories.
Excellent presentation! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is grand. Takes us to our history. Americans have been innovative from the beginning. We are a great country.
Yes. The native-Americans.
@areguapiri Please just go away
@@surfrat8884 ...The historic truth makes your backside "bleed".
@@areguapiri get some real help seriously
Maybe so but it was built at a time when most of the British canal system was already complete. The first modern canal (Bridgewater) was finished by 1761. The proposers of the Erie Canal would have been aware of it. There are relatively few canals in the US as building started as the railways were taking off. The US is a great and innovative country but did not pioneer everything by any means
Well done.
A National treasure.
Thank you. I lived in Syracuse for a while. This brought back some fond memories.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for this top tier Erie Canal vid. Videography and >especially< narration are A grade. Straight up Informative. No BS juvenile political/religious drama. Thanks!
Thrilled you enjoyed it
I grew up 100 yards from the canal in Holley . I learned to fish there . My father use to raise and lower the lift bridge . I owned a few apt houses the backed up to the canal loop . One was a marina and let rooms . Very historic . I was in Buffalo at canal side where they were making an authentic canal boat .
I plan to go by boat this summer, very informative. Great video
Glad it was helpful!
Make sure to spend the day and night in the Village of Baldwinsville. You will love it. Lock 24.
I was in Brockport for the eclipse. I planned to see it right on the banks of the canal. Unfortunately the canal was drained for the winter and it was overcast for the eclipse. What a bummer. I saw a whole bunch of nothing. At least the Kodak museum was open and we traveled south for the Corning museum and onward to the Bethel museum. (Woodstock) Never ever take the back roads to Bethel. Just take 17B like everyone else.
Bethel, NY......Cool. Would love to go there again. Haven't been there since August '69. Ha!
You have to admit the ECLIPSE was still AMAZING even though we didn't get to experience tge full event. I was in Rochester and captured pics of sunrise & sunset. Sadly clouds made their entrance a few hours before, and continued for a while after. Though disappointed, I'll never forget the magic of TOTALITY as darkness rapidly came over us, solar lights came on, coolness was felt. A spiritual experience. 4/8/2024
You always know your neighbor. You always know your pal. If you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal!
Someone had to do it. Nice work
I grew up in Western New York = Alden. The western (Buffalo) end of the Erie Canal is a hop, skip, and jump from were I lived. It is all historical as this fine presentation shows. The people who put the video together did a superb job on gathering information, organizing it and finally assembling it into this absolutely amazing piece. Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
That’s very kind of you to say. I’m thrilled you enjoyed it
Shawn Rhymes here. I'm enjoying this video very much. If you haven't heard of the Great Loop, you might want to check it out. The Erie canal is part of the Great Loop, and I'm hoping to do the Great Loop, but I'd be going west from Albany to Lake Erie. Thanks for the video.👍
Cool, thanks!
Best Canal video ever. You did miss an old Aqueduct just East of Syracuse in Camillus, and next to Onondaga lake. I used to live a block away from it in Canastota, and went snowmobiling on the towpath a lot. I live in San Diego now, I took my GF back to see it last year, she had no idea how cool it is to see a working lock !
Really nice history and overview. Thanks for putting it together!
Thank you so much for a wonderful tour of the canal.
Really enjoyed your video and commentary. Lived in Syracuse in the 70s while attending Syracuse University. Never visited the canal which I now regret. The canal is one of the greatest engineering marvels in world history. All done without electricity gasoline powered equipment. Fine with pick axes shovels and wagons pulled by horses and mules. Also the need to cut through dense forest first and removing stumps and roots before digging. All done in 8 years. This means to complete the 369+ miles 1 mile needed to be completed every 8 days.
This is interesting and means our historical timeline in up for questioning. Thanks
Thanks for the detailed comment!
And when it was finished weren't railroads starting to make their appearance?
I question how they actually did this too
Awesome! Our plan was to fly into Syracuse for the solar eclipse, but it was hard to get away, make that long weekend happen, and airfare got postponed until this coming weekend! Thanks to your journey here, I know exactly what and where to explore. You’re appreciated more than you know!
Thrilled you enjoyed the video!
😮thank you soooo much for that
I really appreciate that you spent your efforts on this
Your technical skills are impressive:-)
You have done a fine job of explaining the canal along which I grew up.
Much appreciated
I travled the walkways and sat marveling at the drydock and locks of the old 8 foot wide canal near Albany . Some has become basements and walls near a parking lot. But, theres lots of great fossil hunts to be had all the big rack is made of fern and shells everywhare. There's something for everyone to enjoy. What a great job you've done with this video. It should be a school video . It's great thank you 👍
Very informative and enjoyable. Nicely done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video. We are heading North this Fall on vacation and I will endeavor to stop at some of these sites, now that you have introduced me to them . Many thanks.
There was the old Chenango Canal that went downfrom Utica to the Susquehanna River in Binghamton.
People don’t realize how many canals there used to be.
There were also the Genesee Canal and the Black River Canal.
Thank you for a very well narrated documentary
Thanks for listening
A great video thank you very much! We will be taking this trip to experience it in real time. Thank you.
Great video well done and narrated . I lived on a boat in the summer of 87, just west of lock 23 past through it many a times over the years great memories. Wish I was back in NY. Thank you for your contribution to a great state in such a eloquent manner... 👌👍
Thanks for sharing!
Excellent, wonderful production! Thanks!
I've got a mule, her name is 0:19 Sal.......15 miles on the Erie canal...... she's a good worker, and a good old pal. Fifteen miles on the Erie canal.
I tried to put that song at the end, but some copyright troll tried to monetize my video for them. So I had to cut it.
My grandparents traveled west on the Erie Canal in 1856 to a connection by steam ship to Sheboygan WI.
Have you been back to check out the route?
Good video! I grew up about 200 yards away from the canal in Pendleton, NY, but I'm always learning new things about it. Spent a lot of time fishing for bullhead and sunfish when I was a kid. Thanks!
My cousin went to college at Niagara. So did my uncle. The closest I ever came to Pendleton was when I camped over night at a state park right on Lake Erie. We were on tour with the band Phish in 1997. We saw the Darien Lake show. Great times.
@yankees29 the Phish tour also stopped in Plattsburgh, close to where I live now. I didn't move back until 2000 so I missed it. 😞
@@77bubba00 I was at the Plattsburgh show in 1995
@@77bubba00 it was called the Clifford Ball if you want to look it up.
@@yankees29 Thanks. Yes, I did know that. :) Several of my friends were there. I was stationed at that base before it closed.
Most excellent video!! I love spending time at the Waterford Flight, and it's a great place to visit!! This was a very well done view of the canal, and for someone who has been near the canal his whole life, it was appreciated!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really well done presentation. Thanks. Grew up in Syracuse, nice to see some pictures from the time when the canal traveled through the city. Growing up it was easy to see the signs of the canal downtown.
Thank you very much!
My friend, Bob Withington, and I canoed the Canal from Buffalo to Albany. If one has the time ( three weeks) it is the best way to see and experience the Canal.
Wow, that's really impressive. Did you camp too?
I live in Clarence, a Eastern suburb of Buffalo, NY and use the Middleport access to the paved former tow path for a walkabout. This video has really peaked my interest about the canal and the towns bordering it. Now I will have to plan a trip to visit the places you featured, very cool video.
This was a wonderful production. I wish the Erie Canal network had more infrastructure, as that would allow for more recreational use by boaters and tourists alike; I've been watching Cruising The Cut channel, and the English canal network supports so much activity.
I have family in the Syracuse and Auburn areas, so I've visited many of the sites you mentioned between those cities and Vermont, where I spent most of my life. I was surprised you skipped the Chittenango Junction site, which has a replica canal boat, a preserved general store, and a rediscovered and excavated dry dock. I'm glad you included the Ticonderoga at Skenesborough (SKEENS-boro), although it's sad to see that it's not better preserved.
Thanks for the kind words
As a kid back in the 60 s. Me and a couple friends would spend the summers traveling the canal from north tonawanda to Seneca lk, Oswego to lk Champlain We had old rechardson wooden boats. It was one of the best times of my life
That's a crazy adventure. How long did that take?
We were gone most of the summer. There were many different trips. All summer in 1000 islands. Out from Oswego. Six weeks to lk Champlain 2-3 weeks to lk Seneca I think every summer for 4-5 years we went on adventures. Then in 71 we came all the way to Fl. Via inland waterway. They we had to grow up lol. Home, family, kids. Now it seems a lifetime ago. And it was
@@steved5023 ....this sound like you experienced your proverbial bucket list while you were still young enough to enjoy it. Good for you ;-)
@@andrep8287 yes the first 25 years were the best of my life. So thankful for that time.
Nice video. (But it's pronounced Sko-Hare- eee and. Oz-WE- go) I l live near the Saratoga Battlefield. Very detailed overview and well done!
Thanks for the info!
Aus-we-go.....not Oz. Schuylerville.....meh
Truly an amazing video...as a history buff I found it to be extremely well done. Appreciate you sharing your amazing adventure. Sincerest Thanks.😎🇺🇸⛴️😇
Our pleasure!
Very well done video..🙂
very good!!!
Great presentation! I grew up beside the Erie Canal in the '50's in Henpeck, to the west of Rochester. First memories were watching the barges and hearing the tug's horns. Just wanted to mention something that would have been a bit of interest. You could have shown the canal's original path through Rochester if you were just one bridge over. There is a double-decker arch bridge 50 yards to the north of the single arch bridge you showed. The lower of those arch bridges once held the Erie Canal as it traversed the Genesee River. After the canal was moved south, it held the subway, as the road for cars was built over it.
My Great grandmother and her family left from Boonville NY traveled down the Erie to Buffalo on their way to their new home Cambria, WI. Was there a connecting canal from Boonville to Utica? Awesome video.
I don't have that info... maybe someone in the comments can help you with that.
Great video. I never been to the canal or NY but looks like a interesting and historical place to visit. Thanks.
---Watts, CA.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Que interesante documental, he leido mucho sobre el canal y al principio eran mulas a la orilla del canal que remolcaban las embarcaciones, un saludo desde Venezuela
Thanks for watching!
Excellent. Thank 😢
What a great documentary. Although I'm kind of sad about the Schoharie crossing aqueduct. There's even a stabilization project going on there right now. I was just there yesterday, and to see the 200 year old structure up close because the dams on the Mohawk aren't closed is awe inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video
Great comment!
Great travel log...
Much appreciated
Hey from the Erie Canal terminus at the Chesapeake Bay..👋
Brilliant!
Nice of you to say something
Thank you 👍
You completely missed Lock #17 in Little Falls. It was at one time it was the highest liftlock 40.5 ft. in the world, and is different from the normal Canal locks in the way it functions. You also have Moss Island with it's very large water carved Potholes.
Thanks for sharing!
How could you overlook the only functional aquaduct, in Camillus, where you can ride a canal boat over, or canoe beneath, the canal’s intersection with Nine Mile Creek?
It’s impossible to hit everything, but thanks for letting people know
1:17 A map of the modern barge canal. The erie canal went south of Oneida lake and through Syracuse.
It is true that Buffalo was originally the physical location of the western end of the Erie Canal. However, as in this video, that fact is often misrepresented as though it is still the case. Today, the canal itself physically ends where it joins with the Niagara River at North Tonawanda. In 1918, the old historical portion of the canal between there and Buffalo was removed. Buffalo’s term “Canalside” is merely an expression that uses the historical route of the canal as a promotional gimmick to support business in its downtown area. Perhaps this misrepresentation of today’s reality may be influenced by the current terminus of the canal between North Tonawanda and Tonawanda at the Niagara River being merely a relatively boring (i.e., non-commercial) place for free public use, with parks, paved trails for walking and biking, and beautiful scenery.
A national treasure.
Yep! I'm glad it's preserved.
I see Medina Culvert and raise you Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. But that aside, the Erie Canal is mighty impressive.
I live right in front of love eight on the Oswego canal. Lake Ontario is a half mile from my building.
I am Inspired 🤔
Thanks!
Honored, thank you!
This is known more today as the Barge Canal. It follows most of the Erie Canal original route.
Rowed through the Baldswinville lock when part of the Syracuse Crew.
That's a wild way to exercise.
Read Walter D. Edmund’s books about life on the original Erie Canal.
I appreciate the recommendation.
Cool
Hey, Rochester! Wake up! Why don't we celebrate the old canal district the way Buffalo does? No wonder they're siphoning tourists away from us!
I've lived in Rochester for 12 years, and I've learned more about the Erie Canal during this 30-minute video than in all of those 12 years combined. Thanks!
Rochester is a cool city, good luck with getting people to pay attention. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Potterville? Enjoy your video.
I applaud you for your presentation on the Erie Canal.
I am a bit disappointed that you skipped over the terminus of the Eric Canal in Waterford. There is a flight of locks in Waterford. Throughout the village are preserved remnants of the Champlain Canal.
Waterford also supports several parks center around the canals and a beautiful recently built heritage center on the waterfront.
Unfortunately, in my mind, your wonderful presentation is incomplete by skipping over Waterford, NY.
I went there, but by the end of the trip I had contracted the flu and was in pretty rough shape. I didn't do it justice in video, so I edited the video into it's current form. Everyone loves their local sections of the canal and there was no way I could do every section the justice it deserves.
I've watched a few UA-cam channels where boats do traverse the canal.
You missed lock 17. I believe it’s the tallest single lift in the whole system
Sucks the weather wasn't cooperative, but very good video!
I really thought it would have been abandoned and filled in, or a dump like "Love Canal" I am surprised that it looks so nice and is functional.
no sir, the difference is the love canal was a failed project that never was really started, erie canal was THE SINGLE most important technological advancement in the east coast, creating almost every city along it, and creating the economies of New York City and Buffalo and allowing trade of the mid west where before none of these points were even thoughts
I saw that film at a 'stag' party in the '70's.
A 300 mile bike path? I know what I'm doing next summer. Thanks for the info.
Have fun!
This was a very good presentation that moved right along. You did neglect the Black River Canal, though. Were the remains too difficult to access?
As with most history, there is way too much to cover and the deeper you dig the more you uncover. There is a lot I left out to follow the parts of the Erie Canal that is still in use. And there’s even more that I don’t know about the canal history, as I’m not an expert in the topic.
@@megatheriumclub OK. I was just wondering because the Black River Canal, though short, has a very large elevation change and it needed over 100 locks. I used to see parts of it when I would drive north from Rome, NY to Boonville.
Excellent video for the extensive length that was covered!
Nice tour but you did not say anything about Locks 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 better known as the flight , the highest lift in the shortest distance, it is that way because of the Cohoes Falls. The flight get you down to the Champlain canal north or go south to Troy NY and the Federal lock which lowers you into the Hudson river . Where the river becomes Title. IN Troy NY they get a tide. From there you can go to any place in the world.
I love turning bowls! Can’t wait to see the finished bowl! This is probably my favorite way to dry the rough turned bowls, but I’ve recently been playing with soaking them in denatured alcohol. I’ll probably go back to this, as I am getting cracks in my black cherry.
Thanks Carl and Robin!
That's a pretty ship @ 26:27 !
Check out the Camillus Erie canal park and Sims store museum
Comment readers, check out this place too!
Grew up 3 miles from it and the Black River canal intersection
Rome ?
So much connection for upstate NY
Much info is available and the physical route(s) better mapped for the NY Erie canal.
More work needs to be done to pull together the routes and history of western canals through Ohio and Indiana that combined with Erie, allowing movement of goods all the way up and down the Mississippi River all the way from the Hudson River in NY.
I’ve been known to leave constructive criticism and snide remarks hear and there however, if this guy put everything into this, is open to learn more about video production techniques… I think he could be one of the next big geographic influencers . If not that part of the new “networks” of content creators
Thanks I suppose
Thank God for conservationists and that NY State had the wisdom to preserve the Erie canal cause all you see in Pa are tiny remnants of their once great canal system and Pa's once great virgin forested region.
I made a video about the Allegheny Portage Railroad if that interests you.
👍👍
Thumbs up to you too!
Well done! I was born and raised in the Oswego/Syracuse area. You are excused from properly pronouncing many of the towns names. LOL If I wasn't from here I wouldn't know how they are pronounced by the natives. ;-)
I appreciate the support and the sympathy.
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The bumbs at marshals hydro it me help😢
IMO you should have started the video by explaining the history of the original Erie Canal that opened in 1825, underwent several 19th century expansions, that the east-west canal that exists today was started in 1905, completed in 1918 and was originally called the Barge Canal to differentiate it from the original Erie Canal. At 13:43 you show the Richmond Aqueduct but didn't clearly state it was built as a part of one of the 19th century expansions to the original canal to carry the original canal over the Seneca River.
As is quite often the case Wikipedia has clear explanations concerning local history subjects.
The waterway today referred to as the Erie Canal is quite different from the 19th century Erie Canal. More than half of the original Erie Canal was destroyed or abandoned during construction of the New York State Barge Canal in the early 20th century. The sections of the original route remaining in use were widened significantly, mostly west of Syracuse, with bridges rebuilt and locks replaced. It was called the Barge Canal at the time, but that name fell into disuse with the disappearance of commercial traffic and the increase of recreational travel in the later 20th century.
In 1903 the New York State legislature authorized construction of the New York State Barge Canal as the improvement of the Erie, the Oswego, the Champlain, and the Cayuga and Seneca Canals. In 1905, construction of the Barge Canal began, which was completed in 1918, at a cost of $96.7 million.
This new canal replaced much of the original route, leaving many abandoned sections (most notably between Syracuse and Rome). New digging and flood control technologies allowed engineers to canalize rivers that the original canal had sought to avoid, such as the Mohawk, Seneca, and Clyde rivers, and Oneida Lake. In sections that did not consist of canalized rivers (particularly between Rochester and Buffalo), the original Erie Canal channel was enlarged to 120 feet (37 m) wide and 12 feet (3.7 m) deep.
I appreciate the additional history.
@@megatheriumclubThe stones lining the Commercial Slip briefly shown in Buffalo are actually original, 1825 construction. To say that the Erie Canal built Buffalo is an epic understatement: In 1813, the Village of Buffalo was burned by British forces. Twelve years later, the canal opened. Seven years after that, it was now the City of Buffalo.
You completely skipped Schenectady...?
Sorry! Feel free to share anything you’d have liked me to highlight
Sko-HARE-ee
This pronunciation contradicts other ones in the comments. You're just confusing me more!
Medina.....is pronounced Ma...dine..a.
Not... Ma...dee na.
I know...cuz I'm a native of the area.😊 Nice video young man.👍👍
Tried my best, but thanks for the info
Nicely done video on the * Barge Canal * ca. 1918 to present. Historically two other major canals connected to the * Erie canal * * Enlarged Erie canal being the Black River Canal and the Genesee Canal. No mention of the aqueduct in Rochester as shown in your video?
I know what you mean. It's hard to get people excited about a thing they've never heard of, but by packaging it all as the Erie Canal and showing people as many of it's aspects as possible, then they'll learn anyway and dig even deeper if they're interested.
You forgot the Black River canal, museum in Boonville NY. I believe it veered off the Erie Canal in Rome.
Pronunciation of Oswego and Schoharie.
Herkimer has a tour boat that will take you down the canal and through a lock.
Sorry I missed it.
The common denominator is some bumbs gets the upper hand in threatening or taking over my place or assaulting me and I’m from a family with the largest wildlife easment project but I always get the lose in the case with the bumb and the cops on the win I just realized this is bizzare and bad I need help
Great video, really good production value. But, Schoharie is pronounced like Sko-Hair-E.
I researched the hell out of that and watched people pronounce it in videos... I gave it my best go, haha. Sorry to disappoint.
Sko HARR ee
Also: Ah SWEE go, for Oswego.
Cool video, though. I've only explored the parts near me - never the whole length
@@megatheriumclub It's all good, some of the geographic names here are a little crazy. Like take Schuylerville for example, pronounced Sky-Ler-Ville. I blame the Dutch.
Half the towns and villages in New York have names that originate in Haudenosaunee nanes, words, descriptions. I daresay it is the rare geographer who could nail every pronunciation.
And yeah, what isn't Native American nomenclature is often Dutch, which is frequently utterly incomprehensible.
not that he mispronounced so many cities lol. Medina, Oswego. all love from lockport
If you’d like to give the proper pronunciations, I’m sure it would help viewers who decide to visit. Thanks for the feedback.
@@megatheriumclub Not taking anything away from this very good video. Thank you for producing and sharing it. Very good quality videography.
2 constructive criticisms:
- Selfies are creepy, no matter how beautiful you are. I find them to be a big distraction. I'm here for the subject matter.
-It's pronounced, "sko-HAIR-ree" (Schoharie)
Cayouuuga, Osweeeeego. Great and informative video!
That place gives me the heebie-jeebies.
The whole canal?
How could you not spend time talking about Lock 24, the Village of Baldwinsville, and all that there is to do in the Village? You missed a huge GEM there.
I knew I’d end up missing things. Sorry about that
Great pictures and good narration but very disappointed by the content. I wanted to know a lot more about the engineering challenges and how they were overcome. I also want to know about the role of the canal in commerce over its decades - what kind of economic growth did it foster and for how long? Where did if fail as a stimulus to commerce and linking the East to the Midwest via the Great Lakes? And what role did the canal to Lake Champlain play in commerce. Overall nice presentation but too many platitudes and too few hard facts regarding engineering and commerce.
Sounds like you should go read a book on the topic