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ERIE CANAL IN BUFFALO NEW YORK TOUR..... PART TWO / BETH WHITE

HELLO GUYS THANKS FOR WATCHING!!! STAY SAFE GOD BLESS. The Erie Canal in New York is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, originally stretching for 363 miles (584 km) from the Hudson River in Albany to Lake Erie in Buffalo. Completed in 1825, it was the second longest canal in the world (after the Grand Canal in China) and greatly enhanced the development and economy of the cities of New York, including Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and New York City, as well as the United States.[2] This was in part due to the new ease of transport of salt and other goods, and industries that developed around those.[3][4] The canal was first proposed in the 1780s, then re-proposed in 1807. A survey was authorized, funded, and executed in 1808. Proponents of the project gradually wore down opponents; its construction began in 1817, and it opened on October 26, 1825. The canal has 34 numbered locks starting with Black Rock Lock and ending downstream with the Troy Federal Lock. Both are owned by the federal government.[1] It has an elevation difference of about 565 feet (172 m).[5] At the time, bulk goods were limited to pack animals with a 250-pound (113 kg) maximum[6] and there were no railways, so water was the most cost-effective way to ship bulk goods. Political opponents to the canal and to New York Governor DeWitt Clinton denigrated it as "Clinton's Folly"[7] or "Clinton's Big Ditch".[8][9] It was the first transportation system between the East Coast of the United States and the western interior that did not require portage. It was faster than carts pulled by draft animals and cut transport costs by about 95 percent.[10] The canal gave New York City's port a strong advantage over all other U.S. port cities and ushered in the state's 19th century political and cultural ascendancy.[2] The canal fostered a population surge in western New York and opened regions to settlement farther west. It was enlarged between 1834 and 1862. The canal's peak year was 1855, when 33,000 commercial shipments took place. In 1918, the western part of the canal was enlarged to become part of the New York State Barge Canal, which also extended to the Hudson River running parallel to the eastern half of the Erie Canal. In 2000, Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor[11] to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America.[11] The canal has been mainly used by recreational watercraft since the retirement of the commercial ship Day Peckinpaugh in 1994,