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Artificial River

The Artificial River

The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress

Carol Sheriff

6/12/2006

























The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress



On October 26, 1825, the largest American-made canal was finished. Stretching 363 miles, 40 feet wide and only four feet deep, the Erie Canal allowed citizens to populate places that some never dreamed of. By connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast,...

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