How a ‘big ditch’ transformed America’s economy, culture and even religion
200 years in the past, on Oct. 26, 1825, Fresh York Gov. DeWitt Clinton enroute a canal boat via the shores of Pool Erie. Amid raucous festivities, his vessel, the Seneca Leading, embarked from Buffalo, the westernmost port of his brand-new Erie Canal. Clinton and his flotilla made their method east to the canal’s terminus […]