Great video! The first power tool wasn’t invented until 1895. We find these kinds of awe inspiring structures all over the world and are told they where built in a time when people lived in abject poverty. We see pictures of dirty people with horse drawn carts walking around infrastructure so grand and immaculate that modern builders struggle to understand it. We are being lied to!
I'm from Newark NY Finger Lakes region...my home town was demolished back in 1975 and turned into a parking lot. Beautiful ornate buildings and entire city blocks completely demolished. The old pictures online literally make me cry!
Someone else commented that the “canal builders” found the canal, then dug it up. I agree with that. Great channel and great pics. The more I see the more I’m convinced that we have been lied to on an almost unimaginable scale.
What I know about Delta was that it is a lake now, they blew the dam and there is a town under water which is now the famous local swimming hole, called Delta Lake.
Just to survey possible routes, each decision altering the entire route, would take a decade. In addition to the canal itself, man made reservoirs needed to be built to float vessels in Summer, when waters were low. Too, hundreds of culverts and 'feeder creeks' fed the canal system, each an arch of dressed stone, some of them 200 feet long. The whole of the narrow sections dressed stone, both banks, top to bottom. I don't think 'we' built it in 8 years.
A little rough math. With 3 months off for winter, the average of canal dug and lined with dressed stone is 1046 feet per day - 2.17 feet per minute - 6 day work week. Not to mention locks, aqueducts, culverts - all made of dressed stone.
What a joy . And I am so glad to have found this channel . I liked the content and approach . And to make it even better was I have been asking Michelle Gibson to please do an Erie Canal video , focus with Rochester (as it appears in the oldest of maps with diff name even ) , And an even bigger beg the Irondiquoite Bay and the Genesse river gorge now and before it was rerouted both in entirity . I would love to see someone become interested in taking one topic and focus on it with some details before they all disappear . And your right , this area is steeped in lies and deceit . I love to stumble across stuff like this in real life . My daughter just moved to Buffalo by the tracks and the beginning of the canal . We go for walk whenever I visit . And on bored afternoons I head to the river gorge in rochester and paw through the cliffs . Lots of underground stuff as you see (homeless residence though ) A supposed subway that never ran ?? Always hard or restricted access of course . But I can say is one topic easy to get through from Rochester would be "Midtown Plaza" . Was smack dab in the middle of downtown with tons of shops stores , entertainment , 2 stories with a monorail that ran around the marketplace . And an incredible carosel style clock in the center that would rotate around and on an hour an egg would open up with a mechanical operating scene from different worlds (cultures ) And believe it was called the world clock . That would be a good research for newbies to scratch their head and realize we have been devolving and things smell fishy . So on instinct I think it started shutting down In late 70s . 1st the monorail de serviced , then shops squeezed out and corporate businesses moved in , bus station ect .Check it out my friend if you have the time . I am from about 20 miles east of rochester and will be scouting for those entrances and the "glass" in the wall at high falls . Kinda sucks but most viewing can only be done from the buildings in that area but I will check it out . Yeah , this is some of the older old world stuff around here , the whole canal corridor actually which stands to reason right .
Thanks for sharing this story. I will look into the midtown plaza, I have a Rochester collection in the works. Great to have your perspective here...welcome to the channel!
Buffalo may have been the capital of the true federation...before any Iroquois confederacy or southern confederation or the constitution. There are several statue of liberties and I believe Abraham Lincoln was also Jefferson Davis and he was actually someone that held a different title to a different group and history was fudged around it.
There are no words, I am speechless....not joking! I think this is my favorite video....I never knew anything about this area....I am totaly mind blown! Thank you so much :)
excellent video, absolutely enjoyed the scenery you provided here. Thank you. (new sub - I just found you while researching canals and waterways). The Erie canal reminds me of the Trent Severn Waterway of Ontario Canada. I grew up swimming in the canal and the Ottonobee River in the Kawarthas. Native stories indicate the canal system had always been there - the official narrative was that the canal, the locks, specifically the Peterborough Lift lock (quite an undertaking as it is huge) were all built in the late 1800's. The canal was apparently started in 1833 and the lift lock was built in 1896 (finished in 1904). It seems almost impossible for these massive works using huge stone blocks to be so well constructed, planned, engineered in the manner of the official narrative. Horse drawn wagon power? I think not. :) These old aqua ducts may very well have been built using tech, along an ancient system we know nothing about in our given history. Just my 2 cents :) Again, really enjoyed the views you provided and your narration. Thank you kindly.
You do realize the Egyptian pyramids were built of "huge stone blocks" thousands of years ago, right? What makes you think it's impossible for modern people to do the same? Furthermore, if you think people with horse drawn wagons and iron tools could not have built the canal why do you think it's more probable that people with no draft animals nor metal tools built it?
@@normdawley2355 this is a confusing series of questions. There is so much I don't 'realize'. The only assumption I am making is that we are being lied to. Once one comes to this realization, the layers of deception start to peel away and we are left with more unanswered questions. The point of my channel is to bring these questions to the table.. I appreciate you watching and providing input.
Forgot the pyramids and Acropolis I want to see this wonderful canal and the towns with my own eyes. Thank you OWE for your wonderful tour. I owe you - subscribed!
Great video, but you started in Lockport, the Canal actually starts in Buffalo, goes through Tonawanda and then on to Lockport. The Niawanda Park, along the Niagara River, and the I190 were where the canal was before they apparently filled it in. I am from Tonawanda and had no Idea about the canal being filled in. ‘His”Story says when they built the canal they also put in the Tonawanda Dam, that then caused flooding to the Tonawandas so they put in a state ditch, to fix the flooding, in the 1930s I believe they said there wasn’t enough traffic on the canal to pay for the canal 🤷🏼♀️ so they filled it in from Tonawanda to Buffalo. There is also Blackrock locks that were part of the canal systems that is now US Army Corps of Engineers. And there’s still an active lock there with a lift bridge. They recently undug out the canal in downtown Buffalo, and there’s a placard on a tree along a bike path that mentions it. The time it took to build, the cheap labor, the fact that there’s these stepped hills along the river that they say are garbage dumps, but the google image shows it has never changed from the first image till now. There’s what appear to be huge stone block roads, and foundations that you can just barely see through the brush. The land is apparently filled with chemicals, it has High Tension Wires and Solar panels. Also there’s a bunch of quarries and Tonawanda Coke factory, the narrative they give doesn’t make sense. Just thought I’d give you that information since it recently popped up on an Erie Canal Facebook Page, and the story made me think of the questions you always ask and question. Thank you, God Bless 🙏❤️
"I'd love to visit Rochester" - today in previously-unsaid sentences. Actually, thought it's an interesting city. I lived there when I was in college; western NY in general is a pretty pleasant place to live.
@@brandoncook8975 Nobody wants to hear it, but WNY is, for all intents and purposes, the midwest. We have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift accent, and just culturally, we're much more Midwest than east coast.
Thank you. I enjoyed your video😊 (subscribed) @ 17:28 That is the front entrance to the Syracuse, NY city hall. On the opposite side of the building there are two towers and a grand staircase descending directly to the sidewalk next to what was once the Erie Canal. Across from (the now defunct) canal (from the "back" of city hall -- can not see in this picture) is the old weigh lock building. The old weigh lock building is now an Erie canal museum. It is built out of red brick with square limestone pillars.(circa 1825 to 1850-ish) Trivia: During the early to mid- 1800's it was fashionable for people in Syracuse to get married at city hall and then descend down the stairs to a waiting packet boat for a "wedding trip" to Niagara Falls. (I can't imagine they'd have much privacy on the canal boat. Oh well people went for the scenery -- So they said) The original canal (nowadays, as in the past referred, to as " *Clinton's Ditch* "(b.1817 - 1825) and the "Enlarged"/"Improved" Erie Canal is now often called the " *Old Erie Canal* "(b, 1835 -1900) The improved canal was twice as wide and several feet deeper than Clinton's Ditch Both "Clinton's Ditch" and the "Old (improved) Erie Canal followed the same route. The canal went right through the center of Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester and other cities/villages, where the current canal does not go (except in a few places with the old/new together). The third (and final) re-do of the canal was a departure from the 19th century, "old world" (as you describe it) natural stone and brick . It was named" *New York Barge Canal* " (b. 1903/05 -- 1918) Concrete was used for the the new locks (b. 1903/05 -- 1918). New channels were cut (more direct routes) and parts of the Mohawk river deepend and straightened. Oneida lake became the link between Rome and Brewerton (North of Syracuse). Now animals were no longer used to propel the canal boats (steam, diesel, etc.) In Syracuse and other cities along what is now the former canal bed, the area was filled in and the streets labelled "Erie Boulevard", Canal Street, Genesee Street etc.. *But all is not lost!* [1][2] Little, if any commercial traffic went through the Canal after 1970 (the last "modernization")[3] but the canal is still maintained by the "New York State Canal Corporation[2] for flood control, fishing and recreational boaters. (Since COVID and supply chain issues the canals are seeing a small resurgence in commercial traffic) In 2014 The NYS Canal Corporation[2] returned the original names to the states existing canals. "Erie" , "Champlain", "Oswego" and "Cayuga-Seneca" Clinton's Ditch and the Old Erie Canal now are part of the *Empire StateTrail* [1] ___________________________________________________ 1.) *Empire State Trail* empiretrail.ny.gov/ (Scroll down to see the trails) 2.) *NYS Canal Corporation* canals.ny.gov/index.shtml 3.) *Great Lakes Saint Lawrence (River) Seaway System* greatlakes-seaway.com/en/commercial-shipping/transiting-the-seaway/vessel-inspection/ The SLSW and the Great Lakes are billed as "The 8th Sea." No point in going from Europe to NYC (transfer cargo) then from Albany to Buffalo When one can ship directly from the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes. The canal in Chicago down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico and then up the ocean or inland (sheltered by islands) waterway to either NYC or the St. Lawrence River is very popular with boaters It is called the Loop. In addition to the Erie Canal the Champlain or the Oswego canal can be used.
Finger lakes region is beautiful but mysterious. Watkins glen was a feat in itself. Just weird that supposedly hunter biden has a tattoo of finger lakes and people mysteriously disappeared.
these structures are seen all over the world. today we look at them with awe. this is because we know that people alive today, likely could not do this work. yet, they are there and they were built by someone. the question then becomes; who and or what built them? also, how old are they really?
I just watched Syracuse and Rochester and can attest to those structures….there a few in Lockport and Tonawanda in fact I was married in the Tonawanda Castle and there we flooors way below with Iron rods over what looked like windows…..on a building in Lockport there is Greek stone work on the exterior of the back on pin an main with that odd green roof I keep seeing…… I have sooooo many questions!!!!!
Did you notice the giant step pyramid in the background at the 6:50 mark? You mention the stones that the girls are standing on, but that is clearly a half-exposed step pyramid in the background. Not sure where that picture was taken, but I’m sure that pyramid was destroyed or now completely covered in dirt and grass and designated a “Mound.” Surely I’m not the only one to notice this. Apologies if it’s already been brought up, as I haven’t read the comments. Love this video, btw.
Sure looks like planned esthetics. Built for the view's. Wonder if there's any plants, not normally native to the region? Like a Grand Garden. I remember seeing a podcast on southern England, it was entirely reshaped, creeks redirected and whole forests planted. Built with a long term view as a forest takes almost a generation to fill out. Truly amazing, plumbing laid for fountains and such. This reminded me of that video.
Thanks for another great video and the amnesia mention. I need to go back and refresh thoughts from Velikovsky now that this mud flood paradigm has wormed into my brain:/) PS, that building in Utica at 19:05 looks concaved top to wherever bottom is, like it's the bow of a ship, and like so many corner buildings in the realm.
I've wonder the same for sooooo many years, who are these folks who felt casting their likeness in stone was a good Idea. Great question, what's it all about? I don't think future generations were supposed to guess. I believe all our questions can be answered, they just won't be. Someone decide to pretend the civilization didn't exist and tore down some of the most important buildings, statues and burnt the most important books.
Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Babylonians/Persians Ha! Stone lasts longer than our bodies! (We're still talking about those civilizations and the famous people from those civilizations)
Hahah!!!!!! This is our brains being in synch............I literally just was talking to somebody how it is literally impossible for this to have been done the way they say. This is absolutely awesome... "Sheer manpower". Yea that's a good one. You mean you guys found it buried and dug it up? So they threw simple tools made a 363 mile canal to use......for only 50 years...aye ya yi.... We are in synch brother.
The time and manpower doesn't add up. Just like the great pyramid built in 20 years. Quarry, shape, lift, perfectly fit 1 block every 5 minutes. They really think we are fools.
@@jrgmty7685 indeed. Unfortunately most people are fools. Because I'll give everyone this...we all woke up because we weren't confronted with evidence of the contrary... So these people have no excuse because people like us are calling out the bullshit for what it is. I understand if understanding this information doesn't come easily, but once anyone thinks unbiasedly it really does become very easy to see.
@@jrgmty7685 The original Erie Canal (" *Clinton's Ditch* ") was not that wide or deep. The canal "prism" was 40 feet across the top, 26 feet across the bottom and 4 foot deep. The dug out dirt and rocks were thrown up on one side to make the towpath (about 15 feet wide) for the mules. Skilled German (and later Italian) stone cutters did most of the dressing of the stone. The illiterate, non-English speaking Irish did most of the digging. (They were desperate to leave Ireland, even before the famine ...1848-1857). Erie canal was built from 1817 --> 1825. Often the employers paid for their worker's passage (although indentured servitude was illegal after the American Civil War ... 1861 -- 1865) The Central /Finger Lakes/Mohawk Valley areas of NY state (where the original canal was built) has an abundance of limestone almost all of the way from Albany to Buffalo. It wasn't hard to get stone for the locks or clay (to line the canal) The area was a wilderness with HUGE trees. Until the Erie canal was being built few people lived west of the Mohawk river. Those Natives that had supported the USA (the Oneida tribe, who lived near Rome, NY and the Onondaga tribe, who lived near Syracuse, NY) were given land those who had supported the British were told to leave.
@@here_we_go_again2571 not speaking English doesn't make anyone illiterate. You see? You believe everything you're told. So the Japanese are d um b because they don't speak English? Reading a million books doesn't make you automatically smarter if you never understand or question what you're reading.
It's funny NY history starts with Indians and Americans working together to fight Indians and British and there is nothing but trails and forests. Then 30 years later all these built out towns? Monument on oriskany battlefield 1877 stated to be made from a Utica lock however Utica doesn't decomission primary Erie canal until 1921? Something not adding up?
@ jaxraymond173 Because of the Erie Canal, New York became known as the Empire State. The state still has three more operating canals as well as places where the closed canals (couldn't compete against the railroads) connected to the existing canals. Check out these two websites: 1.) Empire State Trail empiretrail.ny.gov/ (Scroll down to see the trails) 2.) NYS Canal Corporation canals.ny.gov/index.shtml
Your correct, these Irish seemed to have built everything from Canal's, Government and Capital buildings, School's, all over America, and simultaneously. With those type of supposed skills, why even leave Ireland.😅😅
I am from Lockport, worked as a tour guide in Lockport Underground Caves. I am extremely familiar with most these places as well as educated on these theories. I am so happy to see a video on this topic. Would love to go take real time photos of specific places and share. Any suggestions?
@23:32 that rendering of the state capitol is not even the same building ! These guys have a thing called dupers delight and this one is right up that alley!
The Erie Canal is NOT is "Upstate New York", please familiarize yourself with New York geography before giving inaccurate information. The Canal traverses the Western, Central, Leatherstocking and Capital Regions
OWE…Fantastic! Can’t wait to watch another one. As I say…WTF…How amazing it all must have been. As you point out…The precision. You can see bits and pieces of the “World Expo’s, (pick one, any one), magnificence, in every town…I believe that’s how glorious this realm was. Imagine that kind of wonder, from coast to coast. They’ve literally white washed history. Dug it out. Cleaned it up. Tore it down if it was too grand….It was interesting to see the partially exposed brickwork aqueduct arch. So many bricks…🏛☕️
Great video! The first power tool wasn’t invented until 1895. We find these kinds of awe inspiring structures all over the world and are told they where built in a time when people lived in abject poverty. We see pictures of dirty people with horse drawn carts walking around infrastructure so grand and immaculate that modern builders struggle to understand it. We are being lied to!
I'm from Newark NY Finger Lakes region...my home town was demolished back in 1975 and turned into a parking lot. Beautiful ornate buildings and entire city blocks completely demolished. The old pictures online literally make me cry!
What was the name of your hometown? I'd like to look at the pictures and cry too.
Someone else commented that the “canal builders” found the canal, then dug it up. I agree with that. Great channel and great pics. The more I see the more I’m convinced that we have been lied to on an almost unimaginable scale.
What I know about Delta was that it is a lake now, they blew the dam and there is a town under water which is now the famous local swimming hole, called Delta Lake.
All built by hand, without railways, or even dynamite by men who had never built a canal.
Old world craftsmanship, a journeyman to apprentice training system still used today.
Imagine trying to make a level waterway from Albany to Buffalo perfectly pitched, no to forget the blasting of the escarpment.
The wonders of this canal are superbly presented and the narration was excellent - truly a delight to watch - thanks for this one!!
Many thanks!
Just to survey possible routes, each decision altering the entire route, would take a decade. In addition to the canal itself, man made reservoirs needed to be built to float vessels in Summer, when waters were low. Too, hundreds of culverts and 'feeder creeks' fed the canal system, each an arch of dressed stone, some of them 200 feet long. The whole of the narrow sections dressed stone, both banks, top to bottom.
I don't think 'we' built it in 8 years.
A little rough math. With 3 months off for winter, the average of canal dug and lined with dressed stone is 1046 feet per day - 2.17 feet per minute - 6 day work week. Not to mention locks, aqueducts, culverts - all made of dressed stone.
What a joy . And I am so glad to have found this channel . I liked the content and approach . And to make it even better was I have been asking Michelle Gibson to please do an Erie Canal video , focus with Rochester (as it appears in the oldest of maps with diff name even ) , And an even bigger beg the Irondiquoite Bay and the Genesse river gorge now and before it was rerouted both in entirity . I would love to see someone become interested in taking one topic and focus on it with some details before they all disappear . And your right , this area is steeped in lies and deceit . I love to stumble across stuff like this in real life .
My daughter just moved to Buffalo by the tracks and the beginning of the canal . We go for walk whenever I visit . And on bored afternoons I head to the river gorge in rochester and paw through the cliffs . Lots of underground stuff as you see (homeless residence though ) A supposed subway that never ran ?? Always hard or restricted access of course .
But I can say is one topic easy to get through from Rochester would be "Midtown Plaza" . Was smack dab in the middle of downtown with tons of shops stores , entertainment , 2 stories with a monorail that ran around the marketplace . And an incredible carosel style clock in the center that would rotate around and on an hour an egg would open up with a mechanical operating scene from different worlds (cultures ) And believe it was called the world clock . That would be a good research for newbies to scratch their head and realize we have been devolving and things smell fishy . So on instinct I think it started shutting down In late 70s . 1st the monorail de serviced , then shops squeezed out and corporate businesses moved in , bus station ect .Check it out my friend if you have the time . I am from about 20 miles east of rochester and will be scouting for those entrances and the "glass" in the wall at high falls . Kinda sucks but most viewing can only be done from the buildings in that area but I will check it out . Yeah , this is some of the older old world stuff around here , the whole canal corridor actually which stands to reason right .
Thanks for sharing this story. I will look into the midtown plaza, I have a Rochester collection in the works. Great to have your perspective here...welcome to the channel!
Buffalo may have been the capital of the true federation...before any Iroquois confederacy or southern confederation or the constitution. There are several statue of liberties and I believe Abraham Lincoln was also Jefferson Davis and he was actually someone that held a different title to a different group and history was fudged around it.
Loved this video. Thank you.
There are no words, I am speechless....not joking! I think this is my favorite video....I never knew anything about this area....I am totaly mind blown! Thank you so much :)
Thanks Justina....❤🙏
Vanilla skies everywhere.
also yellow sun. sure dont look like that anymore.
excellent video, absolutely enjoyed the scenery you provided here. Thank you.
(new sub - I just found you while researching canals and waterways).
The Erie canal reminds me of the Trent Severn Waterway of Ontario Canada. I grew up swimming in the canal and the Ottonobee River in the Kawarthas. Native stories indicate the canal system had always been there - the official narrative was that the canal, the locks, specifically the Peterborough Lift lock (quite an undertaking as it is huge) were all built in the late 1800's. The canal was apparently started in 1833 and the lift lock was built in 1896 (finished in 1904). It seems almost impossible for these massive works using huge stone blocks to be so well constructed, planned, engineered in the manner of the official narrative. Horse drawn wagon power? I think not. :) These old aqua ducts may very well have been built using tech, along an ancient system we know nothing about in our given history.
Just my 2 cents :)
Again, really enjoyed the views you provided and your narration. Thank you kindly.
love your two cents...feel free to add your take should the you get the urge. Glad to have you aboard!!❤🙏
You do realize the Egyptian pyramids were built of "huge stone blocks" thousands of years ago, right? What makes you think it's impossible for modern people to do the same? Furthermore, if you think people with horse drawn wagons and iron tools could not have built the canal why do you think it's more probable that people with no draft animals nor metal tools built it?
@@normdawley2355 this is a confusing series of questions. There is so much I don't 'realize'. The only assumption I am making is that we are being lied to. Once one comes to this realization, the layers of deception start to peel away and we are left with more unanswered questions. The point of my channel is to bring these questions to the table.. I appreciate you watching and providing input.
Forgot the pyramids and Acropolis I want to see this wonderful canal and the towns with my own eyes. Thank you OWE for your wonderful tour. I owe you - subscribed!
Wow, thank you
Great video, but you started in Lockport, the Canal actually starts in Buffalo, goes through Tonawanda and then on to Lockport. The Niawanda Park, along the Niagara River, and the I190 were where the canal was before they apparently filled it in. I am from Tonawanda and had no Idea about the canal being filled in. ‘His”Story says when they built the canal they also put in the Tonawanda Dam, that then caused flooding to the Tonawandas so they put in a state ditch, to fix the flooding, in the 1930s I believe they said there wasn’t enough traffic on the canal to pay for the canal 🤷🏼♀️ so they filled it in from Tonawanda to Buffalo. There is also Blackrock locks that were part of the canal systems that is now US Army Corps of Engineers. And there’s still an active lock there with a lift bridge. They recently undug out the canal in downtown Buffalo, and there’s a placard on a tree along a bike path that mentions it. The time it took to build, the cheap labor, the fact that there’s these stepped hills along the river that they say are garbage dumps, but the google image shows it has never changed from the first image till now. There’s what appear to be huge stone block roads, and foundations that you can just barely see through the brush. The land is apparently filled with chemicals, it has High Tension Wires and Solar panels. Also there’s a bunch of quarries and Tonawanda Coke factory, the narrative they give doesn’t make sense. Just thought I’d give you that information since it recently popped up on an Erie Canal Facebook Page, and the story made me think of the questions you always ask and question. Thank you, God Bless 🙏❤️
Thank you for adding to the story..
"I'd love to visit Rochester" - today in previously-unsaid sentences.
Actually, thought it's an interesting city. I lived there when I was in college; western NY in general is a pretty pleasant place to live.
it always looked nice. im from midwest but upstate NY always impressed me.
@@brandoncook8975 Nobody wants to hear it, but WNY is, for all intents and purposes, the midwest. We have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift accent, and just culturally, we're much more Midwest than east coast.
@@paulyearley1084 i see. thx.
Thank you. I enjoyed your video😊
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@ 17:28 That is the front entrance to the Syracuse, NY city hall. On the opposite side of the building there
are two towers and a grand staircase descending directly to the sidewalk next to what was once
the Erie Canal. Across from (the now defunct) canal (from the "back" of city hall -- can not see in this
picture) is the old weigh lock building. The old weigh lock building is now an Erie canal museum. It is built
out of red brick with square limestone pillars.(circa 1825 to 1850-ish)
Trivia: During the early to mid- 1800's it was fashionable for people in Syracuse to get married at city hall
and then descend down the stairs to a waiting packet boat for a "wedding trip" to Niagara Falls. (I can't
imagine they'd have much privacy on the canal boat. Oh well people went for the scenery -- So they said)
The original canal (nowadays, as in the past referred, to as " *Clinton's Ditch* "(b.1817 - 1825)
and the "Enlarged"/"Improved" Erie Canal is now often called the " *Old Erie Canal* "(b, 1835 -1900)
The improved canal was twice as wide and several feet deeper than Clinton's Ditch
Both "Clinton's Ditch" and the "Old (improved) Erie Canal followed the same route.
The canal went right through the center of Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester and other cities/villages,
where the current canal does not go (except in a few places with the old/new together).
The third (and final) re-do of the canal was a departure from the 19th century, "old world" (as you
describe it) natural stone and brick . It was named" *New York Barge Canal* " (b. 1903/05 -- 1918)
Concrete was used for the the new locks (b. 1903/05 -- 1918). New channels were cut (more direct
routes) and parts of the Mohawk river deepend and straightened. Oneida lake became the link
between Rome and Brewerton (North of Syracuse). Now animals were no longer used to propel
the canal boats (steam, diesel, etc.)
In Syracuse and other cities along what is now the former canal bed, the area was filled in and the
streets labelled "Erie Boulevard", Canal Street, Genesee Street etc.. *But all is not lost!* [1][2]
Little, if any commercial traffic went through the Canal after 1970 (the last "modernization")[3] but
the canal is still maintained by the "New York State Canal Corporation[2] for flood control, fishing
and recreational boaters. (Since COVID and supply chain issues the canals are seeing a small
resurgence in commercial traffic)
In 2014 The NYS Canal Corporation[2] returned the original names to the states existing canals.
"Erie" , "Champlain", "Oswego" and "Cayuga-Seneca" Clinton's Ditch and the Old Erie Canal
now are part of the *Empire StateTrail* [1]
___________________________________________________
1.) *Empire State Trail*
empiretrail.ny.gov/
(Scroll down to see the trails)
2.) *NYS Canal Corporation*
canals.ny.gov/index.shtml
3.) *Great Lakes Saint Lawrence (River) Seaway System*
greatlakes-seaway.com/en/commercial-shipping/transiting-the-seaway/vessel-inspection/
The SLSW and the Great Lakes are billed as "The 8th Sea."
No point in going from Europe to NYC (transfer cargo) then
from Albany to Buffalo When one can ship directly from the
Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes.
The canal in Chicago down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
and then up the ocean or inland (sheltered by islands) waterway
to either NYC or the St. Lawrence River is very popular with boaters
It is called the Loop. In addition to the Erie Canal the Champlain
or the Oswego canal can be used.
Thank you for sharing! ❤
Finger Lakes and the canal systems that reach to Canada etc are very verrrry interesting
Could you look into clevelands five mile crib and the construction of a tunnel to it thats 50 feet below the lake bottom.constructed in 1890.
Finger lakes region is beautiful but mysterious. Watkins glen was a feat in itself. Just weird that supposedly hunter biden has a tattoo of finger lakes and people mysteriously disappeared.
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these structures are seen all over the world. today we look at them with awe. this is because we know that people alive today, likely could not do this work. yet, they are there and they were built by someone. the question then becomes; who and or what built them? also, how old are they really?
Lockport, would love to see a video on my home town!!
I just watched Syracuse and Rochester and can attest to those structures….there a few in Lockport and Tonawanda in fact I was married in the Tonawanda Castle and there we flooors way below with Iron rods over what looked like windows…..on a building in Lockport there is Greek stone work on the exterior of the back on pin an main with that odd green roof I keep seeing…… I have sooooo many questions!!!!!
Did you notice the giant step pyramid in the background at the 6:50 mark? You mention the stones that the girls are standing on, but that is clearly a half-exposed step pyramid in the background. Not sure where that picture was taken, but I’m sure that pyramid was destroyed or now completely covered in dirt and grass and designated a “Mound.”
Surely I’m not the only one to notice this. Apologies if it’s already been brought up, as I haven’t read the comments.
Love this video, btw.
Thanks for the video.
The armory at Utica New York looks just like the armory in Cleveland Ohio. It also looks like a castle.
Sure looks like planned esthetics. Built for the view's. Wonder if there's any plants, not normally native to the region? Like a Grand Garden. I remember seeing a podcast on southern England, it was entirely reshaped, creeks redirected and whole forests planted. Built with a long term view as a forest takes almost a generation to fill out. Truly amazing, plumbing laid for fountains and such. This reminded me of that video.
A Gently Profound Video . Awesome are your efforts
Fishkill, New York. In particular, the prison, check it out... or don't lol.
Thanks for another great video and the amnesia mention. I need to go back and refresh thoughts from Velikovsky now that this mud flood paradigm has wormed into my brain:/) PS, that building in Utica at 19:05 looks concaved top to wherever bottom is, like it's the bow of a ship, and like so many corner buildings in the realm.
Big wow!
I've wonder the same for sooooo many years, who are these folks who felt casting their likeness in stone was a good Idea.
Great question, what's it all about?
I don't think future generations were supposed to guess. I believe all our questions can be answered, they just won't be.
Someone decide to pretend the civilization didn't exist and tore down some of the most important buildings, statues and burnt the most important books.
we're onto them though....
Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Babylonians/Persians
Ha! Stone lasts longer than our bodies!
(We're still talking about those civilizations and the famous people from those civilizations)
Hahah!!!!!! This is our brains being in synch............I literally just was talking to somebody how it is literally impossible for this to have been done the way they say. This is absolutely awesome...
"Sheer manpower". Yea that's a good one. You mean you guys found it buried and dug it up? So they threw simple tools made a 363 mile canal to use......for only 50 years...aye ya yi....
We are in synch brother.
The time and manpower doesn't add up. Just like the great pyramid built in 20 years. Quarry, shape, lift, perfectly fit 1 block every 5 minutes. They really think we are fools.
@@jrgmty7685 indeed. Unfortunately most people are fools. Because I'll give everyone this...we all woke up because we weren't confronted with evidence of the contrary...
So these people have no excuse because people like us are calling out the bullshit for what it is. I understand if understanding this information doesn't come easily, but once anyone thinks unbiasedly it really does become very easy to see.
@@jrgmty7685
The original Erie Canal (" *Clinton's Ditch* ") was not that wide or deep.
The canal "prism" was 40 feet across the top, 26 feet across the bottom
and 4 foot deep. The dug out dirt and rocks were thrown up on one side
to make the towpath (about 15 feet wide) for the mules.
Skilled German (and later Italian) stone cutters did most of the dressing
of the stone. The illiterate, non-English speaking Irish did most of the digging.
(They were desperate to leave Ireland, even before the famine ...1848-1857).
Erie canal was built from 1817 --> 1825. Often the employers paid for their
worker's passage (although indentured servitude was illegal after the American
Civil War ... 1861 -- 1865)
The Central /Finger Lakes/Mohawk Valley areas of NY state (where the original
canal was built) has an abundance of limestone almost all of the way from
Albany to Buffalo. It wasn't hard to get stone for the locks or clay (to line the canal)
The area was a wilderness with HUGE trees.
Until the Erie canal was being built few people lived west of the Mohawk river.
Those Natives that had supported the USA (the Oneida tribe, who lived near
Rome, NY and the Onondaga tribe, who lived near Syracuse, NY) were given land
those who had supported the British were told to leave.
@@here_we_go_again2571 not speaking English doesn't make anyone illiterate. You see? You believe everything you're told.
So the Japanese are d um b because they don't speak English?
Reading a million books doesn't make you automatically smarter if you never understand or question what you're reading.
It's funny NY history starts with Indians and Americans working together to fight Indians and British and there is nothing but trails and forests. Then 30 years later all these built out towns? Monument on oriskany battlefield 1877 stated to be made from a Utica lock however Utica doesn't decomission primary Erie canal until 1921? Something not adding up?
Excellent video! Thanks.
Amazing pics and journey, being in the UK I had no idea about the Eerie Canal, just the Lake!
@ jaxraymond173
Because of the Erie Canal, New York became known as the Empire State. The state still has
three more operating canals as well as places where the closed canals (couldn't compete
against the railroads) connected to the existing canals. Check out these two websites:
1.) Empire State Trail
empiretrail.ny.gov/
(Scroll down to see the trails)
2.) NYS Canal Corporation
canals.ny.gov/index.shtml
irish men paid with booze. my people
There is so much, if you just have eyes to see, thank you for your hard work..............................rich.........................acoG
Wow thank you, another awesome video! I agree, by design we're a species with amnesiaby!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am living in the Rochester area and would love to explore and share stories
@@heathertyler6786 please do Heather...if you find anything interesting...feel free to email me your findings.
A Melted Red Brick World.
You were so funny narrating back 2 yrs🤣🤣👍🏻🩵
they say they were saved by Irish immigrants for labor
amazing the skills they came with!!!ha
Your correct, these Irish seemed to have built everything from Canal's, Government and Capital buildings, School's, all over America, and simultaneously. With those type of supposed skills, why even leave Ireland.😅😅
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Wow incredible video
Thank you very much!
You had me laughing out loud through the whole video!
I am from Lockport, worked as a tour guide in Lockport Underground Caves. I am extremely familiar with most these places as well as educated on these theories. I am so happy to see a video on this topic. Would love to go take real time photos of specific places and share. Any suggestions?
Take your pick! You would know better than I. If you email them to me I could do a followup video with those pics if you're into that..
@23:32 that rendering of the state capitol is not even the same building ! These guys have a thing called dupers delight and this one is right up that alley!
It's pronounced "Ska-neck-tuh-dee" (Schenectady)
Hey, I live in Rome ny. I’ll send you pics if you’d like and give you the “history” of delta dam
good
What is the waterfall at 11:21?
The Erie Canal is NOT is "Upstate New York", please familiarize yourself with New York geography before giving inaccurate information. The Canal traverses the Western, Central, Leatherstocking and Capital Regions
Heyyy I think I live here
(Rochester) and I promise it’s the most mysterious god damn place that looks destroyed but little effort to actually rebuild
It’s truly as if they didn’t think anyone would look over here but I’m glad it’s being explored
Nice video, but we need to be clear here, it was clearly made by cows and other wild animals 🤡👍
Sorry to butt in here but I'm just a normal person. Can someone please summarize this video for me? Perhaps if i played it backwards...
Watch some of the other videos if you're confused...there's a lot to dive into with this stuff...
Some people shouldn't be narrators
Ouch that's cold.
I didn't find any problems with the narration. He has a pleasant and crystal clear voice - that's already more than can be said for most!
OWE…Fantastic! Can’t wait to watch another one. As I say…WTF…How amazing it all must have been. As you point out…The precision. You can see bits and pieces of the “World Expo’s, (pick one, any one), magnificence, in every town…I believe that’s how glorious this realm was. Imagine that kind of wonder, from coast to coast. They’ve literally white washed history. Dug it out. Cleaned it up. Tore it down if it was too grand….It was interesting to see the partially exposed brickwork aqueduct arch. So many bricks…🏛☕️
great comment thanks for being here..