Examples of Erie Canal in a sentence
Merchants seeking to regain the trade that was being diverted through the Erie Canal promoted the creation of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, chartered in 1827.
I will identify the political, economical, and sectional importance of the Erie Canal.
In 1817, an administrative remedy was made available for some claims related to the Erie Canal.
The canal ter- minal is not a thing of beauty, and only in a most extended sense could it be considered a work of art.4 But it is genuine: it is the real western ter- minus of the Erie Canal.
The Erie Canal, the first American canal to achieve commercial success, was made possible by the first state bonds to be quoted on the London market, in 1817.
Ordinance authorizing the Mayor to enter into agreements with Cascade Locks Parks Association for construction of a zipline along the Ohio and Erie Canal; and declaring an emergency.
Imitation and Innovation in the Response to the Erie Canal in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, TRANSACTIONS AM.
The opening of the Erie Canal led to a rapid migration of New Englanders to Michigan in the 1830s.
Prior to the Erie Canal, only three of the existing canals in the country covered more than two miles; at twenty-eight miles in length, the Middlesex Canal was the longest of them, but struggled financially.74 In constructing and financing the trailblazing Erie Canal without the intermediation of the corporate form, the state government of New York inaugurated a new era of direct state involvement in canal development.75 Those public projects, in turn, would soon be threatened by the rise of railroads.
Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, Ohio (see Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway, Ohio).