Erie Canal: The Ditch That Opened a Nation by Dan Murphy

Erie Canal: The Ditch That Opened a Nation

Dan Murphy

84 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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Imagine spending 4 billion in today's currency to dig a ditch four-feet deep and 40-feet wide. Is it any wonder why Thomas Jefferson described the notion of a manmade waterway linking the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean as "little short of mad...

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