Erie Canal
Erie Canalway, NY
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DeWitt Clinton shepharded the completion of the Erie Canal at a cost of $7 million $, the canal was 363 miles length including 565 miles of changing elevation. - lowered the cost of shipping made trade easier. It was the first from east to west transportation route in the country allowing the agricultural products of reducing cost of transport by 90%... enabling agriculture products to reach the sea making New York a major commercial port.
Not until April 15, 1817 was the whole plan solidified into a legislative act by which funds were provided for the construction of a canal 363 miles in length, with a surface width of 40 feet, a bottom width of 18 feet, and a water channel four feet in depth. But when the start fairly had been made the work went ahead rapidly. Ground was broken that same year, on July 4th, at Rome, on the middle section; and the excavation and structural work were pushed with such diligence that the canal was opened for traffic in but little more than eight years.
Historic Maps
1660 - Castello plan for New Amsterdam
1767 - Ratzer Plan, NY
1811 – Commissioners Grid Map, NY
1865 – Viele Map, NY
2012 – Superstorm Sandy, NY
1630 – Boston Shoreline
1743 – Bonner-Price Plan of Boston
1795 – Boston Shoreline
1814 – Hales Map of Boston
1852 – Boston Shoreline
1874 – Hopkins Map, Boston Proper
1874 – Hopkins Map, Cambridge
1880 – Boston Shoreline
1916 – Boston Shoreline
1934 – Boston Shoreline
1950 – Boston Shoreline
1995 – Boston Shoreline
1944 - Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River
Philadelphia 1797
Florida Shoreline 3 feet
Florida Shoreline 8 feet
New Orleans