Cruising down the Erie Canal on a perfect day with the year Missionaries and friends from the area, brought his smiles and great amazement at the amazing first of those who built the Eerie Canal so many years ago with their limited resources, and today is still in use by the entire area as a source of travel in this area today.
The Erie Canal harbor boat Cruze loading dock.
Beautiful homes line the canal from Buffalo to Albany New York, 350 miles with beautiful parks and businesses along the way. The canal has bridges that are raised and lowered to accommodate road travel across the canal day in and day out. Quite an amazing feat so long ago and still in use today!
There are lots of bird towel along the canal, and we don't seem to bother them. It was an amazing trip for everyone. My favorite was going through the locks. There are 35 locks in all. The canal extends a total of 363 miles long, with a rise of 568 feet from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. Built is 1820, there are 57 locks and 17 lift bridges. It took 7 years to build, and finished in October of 1825.
They hired orphans to crawl down in the holes to set the dynamite to do the blasting for the canal. They earned 12 cents a day. That is one terrible job!
This is one of the locks that we are rising up to go through. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes to fillip the water to go through each lock. And the same to let the water down stream. It was totally awesome!
Which you all could have spent this day with us. It was pretty amazing!
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