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The Great American Canals (Volume II, The Erie Canal)

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Hulbert Archer Butler

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Transcriber’s Note: Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text body. Also images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break, causing missing page numbers for those image pages and blank pages in this ebook.

HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA

VOLUME 14

View of Old Erie Canal Basin at Buffalo

HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 14

The Great American Canals

by
Archer Butler Hulbert

With Maps and Illustrations

Volume II
The Erie Canal

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO
1904

		PAGE
Preface		11
I.	The Mohawk and its Improvement	15
II.	Early Promoters and their Dreams	43
III.	Clinton’s Memorial	62
IV.	Planning, Building, and Opening	104
V.	Local Influences of the Canal	152
VI.	The Canal Fund and Enlargements	178
Appendixes		211

ILLUSTRATIONS

I.	View of Old Erie Canal Basin at Buffalo	Frontispiece
II.	Map and Profile of the Erie Canal (from Poussin’s “Travaux d’améliorations intérieures ... des États-Unis d’Amérique de 1824 à 1831”—Paris, 1834)	107
III.	A Canal Lock at Rome, New York, Touching the Site of Fort Stanwix	117
IV.	View of Canal at Little Falls, New York, Showing Lock 37 in the Distance	133
V.	Map of Erie Canal, Showing Improvements Proposed (from report of February 12, 1901)	205

PREFACE

This second monograph on the great American canals which played the part of important highways westward, is devoted to an outline of the Erie Canal. In the comparatively short space at our disposal for so great a theme, it has been possible only to sketch some of the leading features of our subject, namely, the early history of the Mohawk Valley route, the origin of the canal idea, its building, the celebration of its completion, a catalogue of its finances and enlargements, and its effect.

Our sources have been the state Reports, Sweet’s Documentary History, Hawley’s Origin of the Erie Canal, and the various state and local histories which treat of the subject. A monograph, in the form of a thesis, by Julius Winden, has been of great advantage, as will be indicated, in presenting the influence of the Erie Canal upon the population along its course.

The author is under a debt of gratitude to Hon. A. R. Spofford of the Congressional Library, Hon. John S. Billings of the New York Public Library, and T. M. Ripley of Marietta, Ohio, for advice and assistance.

A. B. H.

Marietta, Ohio, March 4, 1904.

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