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The Erie's Key Players

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Thomas Jefferson, who died on July 4, 1826, lived just long enough to know how mistaken he was with that comment.
"Making a canal 350 miles through a wilderness is little short of madness...          
                            ...perhaps in a hundred years."

               - Thomas Jefferson, President

 When hearing of New York State's plan to build a continuous canal from the Hudson River to Buffalo.

"May the God of Heavens and the earth smile most propitiously on the work, and render it subservient to the best interests of the human race."

           - Dewitt Clinton, Governor of New York State

Spoken at the opening ceremony marking the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 - without federal help.  


The expression CLINTON'S DITCH was originally a term of derision used by many who opposed the canal's construction.


Cadwallader Colden
Cadwallader Colden
 Elkanah Watson
Elkanah Watson
Governeur Morris
Governeur Morris

Benjamin Wright
Benjamin Wright was the canal's first Chief Engineer
 Canvass White
Canvass White traveled to England to study their canal system
Nathan Roberts
Lockport's Flight of Five was the design of Nathan Roberts

Jesse Hawley's Role
John Rance reading comments by Jesse Hawley from 1807
 James Geddes
James Geddes was one of the principal surveyors of the orignal canal.
Joseph Ellicott
Comparing vessel sizes through the Erie's improvements.

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