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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8215919, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1975 Erie Canal</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b><font size="5">So-called Half Dollar</font></b></font></p><p><b>Heraldic Art Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442192[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1442193[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The New York Legislature wanted a canal across New York to boost trade and commerce and 7 million dollars was granted for the construction of the canal.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Erie Canal opened in 1825. The canal connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and through this waterway to the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>The canal was opened by Governor DeWitt Clinton who is credited as the force behind the canal and its construction. The Erie Canal was sometimes called &quot;Clinton&#039;s Big Ditch&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The waterway today referred to as the Erie Canal is quite different from the nineteenth-century Erie Canal. More than half of the original Erie Canal was destroyed or abandoned at the time of construction of the New York State Barge Canal in the early 20th century.</p><p>The sections of the original route remaining in use, mostly west of Syracuse, were widened significantly, with bridges over the canal rebuilt and locks replaced.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have crossed the Erie Canal draw bridge on my way to Lake Ontario many times in Albion NY.</p><p>The first time I crossed it I was surprised at how narrow it was at that point and how close to the water the drawbridge was. As a kid in school, learning about the great canal, I expected something much bigger. But in the 1820&#039;s and the tools hard workers used to build it, this was an amazing project.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got an old mule and her name is Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442195[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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