Category: History - American
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
No more important question was proposed to the commissioners in 1816 than the one which asked them to ascertain where the money that was to build the Erie Canal was coming from....
6. CHAPTER IIIThe memorial of the subscribers, in favor of a canal navigation, between the great western lakes and the tidewaters of the Hudson, most respectfully represents: That they approa...
7. CHAPTER IVBy an act of the New York legislature of April 17, 1816,[32] the canal commissioners were ordered to send to the legislature "a plain and comprehensive Report of their proceedin...
4. CHAPTER IThe "great western" route through New York State to the Lakes has come under consideration in our study of highways in three places: as an Indian trail, as a portage path, and a...
8. CHAPTER VA careful study of the influence of the Erie Canal upon the great commonwealth which built it has been made by Mr. Julius Winden, and the results of his investigation, important...
5. CHAPTER IIThe honor of originating the plan of a canal from the Great Lakes to the Hudson will forever lie with the brilliant, visionary Gouverneur Morris. The idea must have suggested it...
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