US EditionReplica Boat Retraces Historic Erie Canal Journey 200 Years Later
The replica Seneca Chief highlights the Erie Canal's role in economic growth and westward expansion with over two dozen stops and more than 200 volunteers involved, organizers said.
- Two centuries after October 26, 1825, the replica Seneca Chief is retracing the Erie Canal route, making more than two dozen stops and heading south on the Hudson River to dock in Manhattan this weekend.
- Work began July 4, 1817, and New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton made the 363-mile canal between Albany and Buffalo his personal project, completing it in eight years despite critics calling it `Clinton's Folly`.
- The Erie Canal cut shipping costs by 90%, speeding passenger travel to the Great Lakes and boosting settlements from 200 in 1833 to almost 5,000 by 1840.
- The Seneca Chief crew is gathering water and planting white pines to honor the Haudenosaunee, while a governor ended the trip Nov. 4 by pouring Lake Erie water into the Atlantic Ocean.
- Its engineering required overcoming 150 feet of elevation with 83 locks, marking an early American technical milestone despite later decline and freight ending by 1903.
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Floating time capsule: Replica boat retraces historic Erie Canal journey 200 years later
Two centuries after the Erie Canal was opened with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted replica of the original vessel is retracing the original route.
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