How The Erie Canal Changed American History - Part 2 - Historsea, Episode 2
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2023
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The Erie Canal is one of the most significant transportation systems in American history, transforming the way goods were transported across the country. Completed in 1825, the canal connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie, allowing goods to be shipped from New York City to the Midwest and beyond.
In this video, we explore the impact of the Erie Canal on American commerce and trade. We examine how it reduced transportation costs, increased efficiency, and expanded markets, leading to economic growth and prosperity.
Join us as we take a deep dive into the history of the Erie Canal, its construction, and the various ways it changed America forever. We also highlight the cultural significance of the canal and how it shaped the development of the regions it served.
If you're interested in learning more about the Erie Canal and its transformative impact on American society, be sure to watch this informative video. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe to our channel for more fascinating history content!
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Your excitement telling this tale is positively infectious. I love it.
I'm starting to shop for a sailboat to enjoy during retirement. You make me want to buy a Great Lakes boat just so I can adventure it though the canals and explore the history along the way. Wonderful story telling. Thank you!
The Great Lakes, just around Michigan offer so much to see.
This is AMAZING. I live in NY and have never really appreciated the Erie Canal until now. Now it's on my list of things to do (either visit parts of it, or better yet actually motor through it on a boat that I don't yet own).
I grew up in MD, near the C&O Canal. By comparison to the Erie Canal, it doesn't seem as mighty, but maybe it's just as amazing, considering the technology of the time.
Will you do a video on the Panama Canal? That's a more modern version of a crazy project that actually worked. I understand that about 5,000 workers lost their lives building it.
I’m from Binghamton NY. One of the few major towns in upstate New York that isn’t along the Erie Canal. It is where the Susquehanna and Chenago rivers meet making it a center of commerce and trade (even today but by highway and rail)
It’s amazing to see how repurposed towns can be
I visited Lockport and the canal locks several years ago. I watched a tour boat go through the newer, larger lock. The canal is definitely an amazing bit of our history.
I grew up in North Tonawanda, NY and the biggest celebration in the city is Canal Days, a celebration of the Erie Canal. Many of us consider NT the real end of the Erie Canal. Great video!
Hey, Rick. I live just on the other side in the City of Tonawanda just a short walk from the water. The history that passed through our cities is awe inspiring.
You have spoken on a subjecr that caught my attention as a young girl. How exciting for me, and im sure if you'd been my history teacher in HS. I would have gotten a's not d's. I have enjoyed your excitment in the telling. I have been to the canal in various times. Was on my bucket list still today. I know i will get there one day!
Key fact missed is the tax on salt from Syracuse was able to pay for the canal before it was finished. The section between Syracuse and Rome being early to open, and allowing the salt to be rafted down the Mohawk before the canal was dug to Albany.
It surprises me how much geography I've learned from music. I sang "I've got a mule her name is Sal, Fifteen miles on the Eire Canal" when I was six. That was three decades before I saw it when life took me throungh Canajoharie for the first time. Still need to get a boat on it. Thanks for the great work on history..
Dang! "Erie"
Well done. bravo. But you missed two great items that could have made it more fun. The Chenango Canal connected the Erie at Utica to the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace. Think of how that could have shortened getting your sailboat to Florida.
Second, the aqueduct over Erie Blvd in Syracuse had the bottom drop out at one point. All the water in the canal from Syracuse to Rome emptied out and flooded downtown Syracuse. I think that's pretty funny.
I grew up in a small town located on the successor to the Erie Canal, the Barge canal. This is an excellent presentation. The canal created dozens of small towns along its original route. These started as way stations, where the barge crews could change horses or donkeys, buy food and other supplies, sometimes even changes crews. Passengers could spend the night on shore instead of on the barge. I am listing the names of some of these towns in no particular order. I am sure you will see the pattern. Greece, Egypt, Athens, Sparta, Troy, Newark, Clyde, Elmyra, Palmyra, and Macedon. The cities of Rome, Utica, and Schenectady, and Syracuse follow the same naming pattern, but were started before the canal was built.
I worked for 12 years on the Delaware Canal that used to run from Bristol PA up to what is now Easton. I worked on only the section near New Hope, PA. Two mules and a flat bottom barge hauling tourist. It might be of interest to you. The New Hope part is not running now but you can still catch a ride in Easton.
Great site, in 1979 we took our sail boat down the canal and later back. It was a great adventure. We also struggled across Oneida Lake in a storm almost dumping the mast off our deck. Those years the locks were in poor repair with voids in the sidewalls big enough to swallow our 30 foot boat.
I grew up in a small Canal Basin Town along the Erie Canal called Medina. When I was in college, I took an Erie Canal Course to learn about everything you talk about here, in your videos. Clinton's Ditch and all it's changes over the years are still fascinating to me. Thomas Grasso was my instructor at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. Most interesting college course I'd ever taken! A few years ago (May 2017) the Erie canal was used to haul several gigantic brewing tanks from the Atlantic Ocean to be delivered to the Genesee Brewery in Downtown Rochester. They stopped in my current home town and we were able to see them up close before continuing west to the city for delivery. Great content on your channel!! I got intrigued initially by your Edmund Fitzgerald segment. WOW!
i grew-up in Illion NY in the early 1940's and remember all the war marerial that came out of Remington Armes that was shipped down the canel and the train loads of tanks, that i could see , just beond the canal ,headed to NewYork City
Thank you I knew the history of the canal a little from high school but had no idea how it was built.
Awesome story telling! Lots of historical facts of the Erie canal that I didn't knew. I would love to see in a future episode the story of John Harrison and how he invented the Marine Chronometer that solved the longstanding maritime problem of accurately locating longitude in an open ocean. Job well done Tim, Thanks!
Excellent and informative presentation, and your normal and low key narration is such a change from the majority of American narratives where everything is invariably presented as a drama for no reason whatsoever. Thanks from the UK.
Seneca Falls was said to be the inspiration for the fictional town of Bedford Falls in the movie _It's a Wonderful Life_ .
I grew up playing on old sections of the Erie Canal. It’s great to learn the back story. Awesome video!
I grew up in Clyde N.Y. and the canal went right thru the middle of the town. I remember my grandfather saying he helped lay the boulders along the side of the canal. when I was about 12 we swam and fished in the canal. My father told me how they would blow up the canal to kill the fish and then gather them off the top.
Thanks for your perspective and research on the Erie Canal. I traveled it several times from the Hudson to Oswego and actually met my wife at Lock 11 in Amsterdam.
Back many many years ago,
I was in grade school at Burt School in Detroit.
Probably in about 1955 or so.
We had a singing class that everyone attended.
One very happy song that we sang was about the Erie Canal.
I still remember most of the words to that song today.
Always wondered about the Erie Canal but never learned much about it.
Thank you for your video, now I can connect the images in my imagination with the reality of that canal
Nice job. I grew up in Fairport and the canal ran behind the home on the next street from us. It was just part of our lives to bike along it, etc. So much history and interesting stories I never knew.
No vessel approaching the size of a "ship" was able to transit the Erie Canal. Thak You for a fine presentation with this minor error!
fascinating absolutely fascinating. i remember reading about the saint lawrence seaway when i was in elementary school, but i had no idea what it all really meant (the end of the erie canal)..
it's interesting listening to people talk about things. life changed so fast for so many people. i remember reading about u s grant talk about the railroad that transported people as fast as the wind. as i recall he was averaging 30 mph. of course it was horse and oxcart once they got to the end of the line. but for a few days they were in the 20th century, then time went back to alexander the great at the end of the line.
even today at a rest stop looking over the valley towards L.A. there's a historical marker commenmorating a pioneer who braved the unknown wilderness without roads or help from anyone, he was a true pioneer. i can't remember his name, but the year he made it to the valley was 1900.
malaria was a real obstacle for workmen. you mentioned they solved the problem by working the swamp in the winter time.
malaria is not native to america and is not common today for some reason. it was brought to america with the slaves. they did not know it was carried by misquitoes then. they didn't find that out until the panama canal.
My husband is from Fulton County, NY and about 40 years or so when we were visiting without young son (we lived in Phoenix) my father- in- law took us in a ,title trip around that area and we got to see where some of the old Erie Canals still show in depressions! I do remember also seeing the locks and coming from Arizona I was amazed! So much better than just reading a very little in our history books about the Erie Canal! Just discovered your videos - thank you so much!
Great job Tim! Some of the locks were also used to generate hydroelectric power (Lockport, of course, being one in particular). They built bypasses/"raceways" to drive turbines at the bottom. That may be another interesting maritime history to follow the Erie Canal, and you've got both of the power projects on the Niagara River right in your backyard (* kinda...)
That's awesome! Yes I was thinking about doing Niagara Falls too because I think a lot of people don't realize how much it changed things too
I took a 98' Broward motor yacht through the Erie Barge Canal back in 1990. What a great trip ❤ had a tight squeeze under the last bridge in Oswego where we had to hang the mast of the side of the flybridge but we made it. 😏🤔👍
Grew up near Schenectady, and the Erie Canal was an integral part of our education and culture. Thanks for the effort put into this!
It's great to see a Canadian telling compelling stories! Where do you hail from?
Two suggestions: The Rideau canal and the Trent-Severn waterway; unique histories and locks.
I live 200 yards from a stretch of the original canal. Although it no longer marries boats it serves as a wetland home for wildlife. There is a nature trail along much of the lentgh of the canal
Utterly fascinating, thank you so much for bringing this to us. (The Cotswold Landlubber)
I'm from the UK so my knowledge of the real every day America's is limited but I feel I've learned more from this one vid than anything else, maybe it's your narrative style but I was hanging on every word and constantly exclaiming "WOW!" at the snippets of genuinely fascinating facts, this is a great channel, Bravo!
Glad you are doing this. I have always wanted to know more about the early canals. There is one near here on the Catawba River and I grew up in Lynchburg, Va. and worked in my grandfathers 1800’s tobacco warehouse on the James River that also had a historical canal!
Ielift my canal town 40 years ago. ( there’s a pic of it at 27:20) Still, I find it fascinating to this day.
A timeless treasure.
Great content, even better presentation! Thanks 👍
Loved this. You have an excellent delivery. Keep 'em coming.
I did live in Buffalo during this time! It was still partly in use during my younger days!
I love history and being from NY I always was interested in the Erie Canal, it amazed me as an Ironworker in NYC how they built that back in the 1800"s. The way you tell this great history is so enjoyable. thank you Tim Wonderful job. We have so many irish in our Local 40 Ironworkers they are a great part of NY State's history. My ancestors came to this great nation in the 1700's and most lived in upstate NY and where powerful ,successful German and Irsih American's.
Great job telling the story of Erie Canal
Duluth Mn. was a sawmill town befor iron ore was discovered. Lumber was shiped east on sailboats and sidewheelers. There has to be interesting info about this.
Absolutely terrific. Wonderful history. Thank you for these videos.
What a wonderful program 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Great Job. I have been following Lady K for several years now. This is a great turn, although it was fun to watch you and your lady friend bailing the lady K out as it was sinking somewhere out in the ocean. Being from the east coast, canals are something that I am very familiar with, having enjoyed boating in many of them as a teenager. It is obvious that a lot of work has gone into this series. I wish you the best of luck on your new endeavor.
Thank you sooo much! So happy to have you along for the ride! I think I still have nightmares about that fateful day lol.
The Erie Canal was built through the only major gap in the Appalachian Mountains. The New York Central railroad called it the water level route.
Yes, no coincidence that the New York Central followed the path of the Hudson River and the Erie Canal from NYC to Buffalo.👍
Thank you, I totally enjoyed your presentation. I grew up close to the Lachine Canal in Montreal Quebec. As a kid we would watch the barges loaded with coal being offloaded with huge overhead shovels. We would ride our bikes to one of the swing bridges and the operator would allow us to ride it as it rotated to allow the barges to pass! We used to go and watch the ships lock through at the St-Lambert lock, also close by.
Thanks for this extremely well done two part video. I got more out of this hour than reading Bernstein's book Weddingof the Waters about a decade ago.
Hello, Tim. I watch your Lady K channel a lot, and came back to this channel to watch these videos again, after deciding to when I retire next year, to do the great loop instead of heading to the Bahamas and the Caribbean first. There's little info around on sailboat making the loop, including the Erie Canal. Plenty info on power boats, though. I know you filmed some episodes on your crossing on Lady K, and just noticed here that you chose not to remove the spreaders when putting your mast on Lady K's deck. So, I'll go back and watch those again, since I'll be starting from NC some place and of course in the Spring, hopefully of 2025. The Erie Canal is fascinating, which is why I want to do it now. Fair winds.
Excelent essay, TIm! Thank you. Very enjoyable.
Awesome video as always. Last year, I helped deliver my friend's new sailboat from Buffalo to Long Island NY thru Erie canals. It was a great experience.
AT 24:00 made my day. I was thinking of Carmelite II while watching your videos. I would much rather walk the across the lock gates than go across the bridge as you were supposed to do. That photo was probably late 1950's to early 1960's. We fished and played around the locks both in the Summers and winters.
Very nice. I've spent some time learning about the Welland canals (the current version is the 4th iteration of it) and the challenges involved, and tracing the abandoned older parts, where they still exist. It was a significant engineering feat, but the Erie canal was a much bigger project.
Trust me as a resident of St.Catharines having to put up with the locks for 8 months a year is sort of a pain in the ass. Waiting 20 min for a laker to pass thru the canal is irritating. I do know where all the old remnants of the early iterations of the canal are located and have visited most of them.
Excellent and very interesting history lesson.
I really loved your video.. After living beside the canal In Medina,MY .. I had a blast when I lived in the area..
thank you. I love your narration. well done!
& well said.
One of he most eye-opening facts I learned from your Lady K channel was that half of all Canadians live below the northern line of the CONUS, and just how much shoreline the Great Lakes add to your culture. My family took a trip to Toronto, and that is basically a comsopolitan European city right here in North America just a day’s drive from most major US cities. I HIGHLY recommend my fellow Americans take the trip, it’s LOVELY! I think the borders requiring a passport now made cross-border travel much less frequent, and it sucks. I wonder if you could make a video about Canadian sailing culture on the lakes, it’s very much your home turf, and I know you’re quite active in your local yacht club.
Great idea!!!
I think you might have misspoken about development going east, but you probably meant going west…going from east (Hudson River) to west (Lake Erie/Niagara River)?
Yes for sure, I caught it after I said it :(
Thanks so much for this content. It would be so cool to travel the canal.
Perhaps the finest complement I can pay you is that throughout your presentation I was wanting MORE! I have sub'd.
I learned a lot thanks Tim, great job. Looking forward to next week.
The canal is still a big part of Rochester history. It's old route is now a major highway going in and out of the city.
Very good - very interesting - well made -- looking forward to watching/learning more.
Lock~stock~& barrel ...definitely on my "bucket" list. Thanks for sharing & I've subscribed
Very Refreshing. You are able to condense a lot of history into a short yet clear program. My suggestion would be the Rideau Canal that runs close to my home, and past my cottage. It has a somewhat similar content to the Erie Canal, but with a more military origin.
Thank you kindly! Also great idea!
This is a really cool new channel! Thank you, and I hope to see many more videos! Very well done!
Thank you for covering this subject so well!
Nice historsea. I was never taught this in school, but I did grow up in NC, not NY! Amazing what they were able to accomplish with the common building skills of the time & alittle innovation along the way! To think of building such a huge undertaking without dynamite of nitroglycerin, neither of which had yet been invented! REMARKABLE!
Excellent video!!! We'll done and very informative!!!
Totally Awesome!!! I thoroughly enjoyed your tale of a his historical path of the Erie Canal 😊
What a great channel! I loved this series on the Erie Canal. I think a great dovetail with this would be the Intracoastal Waterway. Good luck with the channel! I look forward to what you cover next.
Fantastic !!! Brilliant again!!! The RUclips world need more great people like you.
Thank you so much!
Great video, thank you very much! :)
Came here from Lady K , very good stuff I’ve listened to all videos today on my long drive to and from work today 2.5 hours to go about 54 miles each way, into Camden in London uk 🇬🇧 from my home in Essex, Camden is a London Town built along a Canal system that runs through London.
Great work Tim 👍👍
really enjoy the amount and variety of images, drawings and diagrams, off to a great start!!
Another great video! Really enjoying the content. Keep up the good work.
Much appreciated!
Lock 24 in Baldwinsville was the "Model Lock" for the rest of the State Barge Canal System in the late 1800's. All future locks would be based on that lock which still operates today.
Great job telling this epic story!
Awesome channel! great information, I can't get enough. The 3 rivers here in Pittsburgh PA might make a good episode.
Tip top content and delivery!
Great video. Great job telling the story.
This was great, now due the Welland Canal, and maybe the Trent Severn waterway. Sorry I am Canadian and I live in Fort Erie, just across the creek as we say from Buffalo.
Great video Tim! All the research that wen into this is staggering! You really are a great story teller and your passion shows.
Im a new subscriber, I've watched all of your videos and loved them all. Great job. I'd like to learn more about the St.Lawrence seaway and possibly the Empress of Ireland. Keep up the good work 😀
Such a great story Tim, and all of the old photos that you dug up as well. I have only ever seen drawings and paintings.
Thanks 👍
Great video! I think you should look into doing a video about the naval history of St. Augustine Florida. The fort there, Castillo de San Marcos, has a really fascinating history to it and even the construction of it was unique.
Thank you for sharing i enjoyed watching❤
Love this stuff
Tim...this is a brilliant idea for a YT channel !!! Well done M8 !!!
Really enjoyed! 😊
Would have loved to see some videos of your trip through the canal.
Took me decades to learn, App A LATCH en mountains.
Very informative! Thank you
We live on Seneca lake part of the canal system. Travel the canal and you cannot make a wake be prepared for a slow and beautiful trip. There is a bike trail next to it.
Great job!
Whats amazing is there is still commercial shipping on the Erie Canal! I love sailing on it.
Excellent video.
Wow, that is informative!
Superb explanation.
Love this... Keep it up!