Hudson River
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The Hudson River is a 315-mile river that flows from north to south largely through eastern New York state. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains at Henderson Lake in the town of Newcomb, and flow
The Hudson River as seen from Bear Mountain Bridge in New York state
The Hudson River flowing out of Henderson Lake in Tahawus
The river from Poughkeepsie, looking north
The river between Hudson Waterfront in New Jersey (left) and Manhattan (right)
Erie Canal
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The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic
Hudson River
…Delaware river to Kingston on the Hudson, creating an inland route for coal from Pennsylvania to New York that bypassed the dangerous coastal route. The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, connected Albany on the Hudson to Buffalo on Lake Erie and therefore New York to the Great Lakes, becoming an important route for…
The Erie Canal in North Tonawanda, NY
The Mohawk Valley, running east and west, cuts a natural path between the Catskill Mountains to the south and the Adirondack Mountains to the north.
Portrait of DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale, 1823. Clinton was Governor of New York and a champion of the canal
Profile of the original canal