St. Lawrence Seaway
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The St. Lawrence Seaway is a system of rivers, locks, canals, and channels in Eastern Canada and the Northern United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gre
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The Eisenhower Locks in Massena, New York
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St. Lawrence Seaway separated navigation channel near Montreal
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
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…potential of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the power project stir the imagination of the world." The seaway's opening is often credited with making the Erie Canal obsolete and causing the severe economic decline of several cities along the canal in Upstate New York. But by the turn of the 20th century, the Erie…
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