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“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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Three Year Trek from Rockland

From The New-York Times June 18, 1861: THE FOURTH REGIMENT OF MAINE. ROCKLAND, Me., Monday, June 17. The Maine Fourth Regiment, Col. BERRY, 1,100 men left for the seat of war as 11 A.M. to-day, in the steamer Daniel Webster. … Continue reading

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