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  1. The Antebellum Period

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    Artifacts Chapeau of Lt. Charles Wilkes US Naval Academy Museum Canal Line Boat "Frank B. Thomson" Erie Canal Museum Andrew Jackson on Horseback American Heritag More >>>

  2. The Erie Canal Passed This Way

    By Anonymous (not verified), October 1968, Volume 19, Issue 6

    When the Erie Canal was built in the 1820’s, it was the engineering marvel of its time. And, considering the tools and technology of the period, it still appears a rather respectable undertaking. More >>>

  3. The Farmington Canal

    By Eric Sloane, February 1958, Volume 9, Issue 2

    The hand-dug waterway is mostly forgotten now, but it opened up areas of New England as well as imaginations. More >>>

  4. The Erie Rising

    By Rosanne Haggerty, April 2001, Volume 52, Issue 2

    All along its 360-mile route, towns to which the canal gave birth are looking to its powerful ghost for economic revival. More >>>

  5. The Erie Canal

    By Anonymous (not verified), December 1984, Volume 36, Issue 1

    I would like to have witnessed the opening of the Erie Canal late in October 1825 —the grand procession that started in Buffalo, where the canalboat Seneca Chief moved slowly into the canal car More >>>

  6. The Old Fall River Line

    By Oliver Jensen, December 1954, Volume 6, Issue 1

    Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the Sound on “Mammoth Palace Steamers” in the heyday of the sidewheelers More >>>

  7. Heyday Of The Floating Palace

    By Leonard V. Huber, October 1957, Volume 8, Issue 6

    Nicholas Roosevelt’s fire canoe transformed the Mississippi. More >>>

  8. Steam Road To El Dorado

    By David McCullough, June 1976, Volume 27, Issue 4

    Mile for mile, it cost more in dollars—and lives—than any railroad ever built More >>>

  9. Water World

    By William Least …, April 2001, Volume 52, Issue 2

    A journey aboard a 70-year-old steamboat through an engineering wonder that relatively few people have seen and a landscape where many of the human outposts will, sooner or later, drown. More >>>

  10. Narrative Of An Escape From A Rebel Prison Camp

    By Morris C. Foote, June 1960, Volume 11, Issue 4

    On April 20, 1864, the Union outpost at Plymouth, on the North Carolina coast, was captured by the Confederates. One of several thousand prisoners was a twenty-one-year-old officer named Morris C. Foo More >>>

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