Category Archives: 200 Years Ago

“3½ or 4 miles per hour”

This year is the 200th anniversary of the official opening of the original Erie Canal. On October 26, 1825 New York Governor DeWitt Clinton boarded the packet boat Seneca Chief in Buffalo at the western terminus of the canal. The … Continue reading

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