SOURCE: [Self-photographed, 2016]
The Erie Canal Today
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"In a way, like many who followed this route in an earlier century, they are pioneers, representing a new wave of travelers who have “navigated” the famous canal corridor for 360 miles from Buffalo along the Erie Canalway Trail. " "And you'll always know your neighbor, you’ll always know your pal, if you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal." |
Maintaining the Erie Canal
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Lock at Waterloo, NY
"There was a huge boom of canal building across this nation in the 1850s and ‘60s. All of those waterways have faded. Only the four branches that are New York, the Erie, the Champlain, the Oswego, and the Cayuga-Seneca are in service today. And, they are in service as commercial waterways.”
-Duncan Hay, Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
“This is a canal, we’re coming up on 200 years, but it’s a living, working waterway. That’s one of the things that makes the New York system distinct from all the others. There was a huge boom of canal building across this nation in the 1850s and ‘60s. All of those waterways have faded. Only the four branches that are New York, the Erie, the Champlain, the Oswego, and the Cayuga-Seneca are in service today. And, they are in service as commercial waterways.”
- Duncan Hay, Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Student-made Interactive Map: Hover over locations to view images
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“Many of us at the Canal Corporation and our partners here today in this room, believe that New York State and indeed the nation, should use this milestone [bicentennial] to recognize and celebrate the significance and national importance of the Erie Canal.”
-Brian Stratton, Director of Canals, NYS Canal Corporation
Today, the canal still symbolizes American innovation.