Traveling through History: The Erie Canal

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自白：我有一个伊利运河的魅力。这在某种程度上，地域的启发，我在纽约州北部长大，向西扩展，你可以学习伊利运河的歌曲在小学（“这种大型工具的家，我们拖走一些驳船在我们的日常生活/用木材填充，煤和干草/我们知道的方式/从奥尔巴尼Buffalooooooo”）的每一寸。当我搬到了密歇根州作为一个成年人，我重新为它找到升值，因为这方面的结算是由人传播这个“快”路线推动。

While on vacation recently, I visited the canal in Lockport, where you can see the original locks alongside “newer” ones (from the early 1900s). You can also tour the caves there—these are waterways painstakingly carved from stone to reroute water to businesses, such as the first fire hydrant manufacturer. The caves are empty now, so you can walk the dark route and imagine a bit of what life was like for the workers (some children) who blasted through them. Lockport was a bustling town during the days of the original canal, when passage for a single boat took at least three hours and folks would linger, but the town’s fortunes dwindled when the new locks were built that allowed passage in under one hour. That, as they say, is progress. Today, pleasure boats and kayaks ride on these waters through history.

I also visited the end of the canal in Buffalo a few years ago on a walking tour. Buffalo is a (now resurgent) city that rose from Erie Canal traffic, and the ruins of its terminus remain, along with tales of a wild time that could be had for those disembarking. I haven’t yet made it to the Albany side of the canal, but surely that’s to come. What continues to amaze me is the imagination behind and engineering of this canal, and its impact, despite a very limited lifetime. Originally considered a folly, the 363-mile Erie Canal was an instant success—moving some 62 percent of all US goods in 1853 and cutting transportation costs by an astounding 95 percent. It established New York City as the economic powerhouse, surpassing the ports of Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Boston. But the canal’s creation and the population growth along its route also resulted in the dispossession of many Native Americans, disrupting their ways of life forever.

Koeppel，杰拉德T.“伊利运河”。百科全书新的美国国家的，由保罗·芬克尔曼，卷编辑。1，斯克里布纳之子公司，2006年，第468-473。Gale In Context: U.S. History,https://link.金宝搏彩票gale.com/apps/doc/CX3446700223/UHIC?u=gale&sid=UHIC&xid=1fd7215a。

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理解这条运河的影响全部的真相是非常重要的，并且需要更深的潜水。这里有一些标题，可以在打印或在电子书格式金宝搏彩票盖尔电子书，让你开始：

Westward Expansion: America’s Push to the Pacific: The Erie Canal, 1st Edition
珍妮纳格
全书数字化学习
ISBN-13：9781680487664
Grade Level Range: 5th Grade – 9th Grade

揭开美国历史：伊利运河的主要来源调查，第1版
拉拉Sahgal
Rosen Reference
ISBN-13：9781499435108
年级范围：5年级 - 8年级

New York’s Erie Canal, 1st Edition
Patricia Drake
贝瑞特 - 科勒
ISBN-13: 9781477772928
Grade Level Range: 4th Grade – 7th Grade

大厦伊利运河，第1版
Rourke Educational Media LLC
ISBN-13: 9781621699446
Grade Level Range: 4th Grade – 6th Grade

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