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Which Canal Is This? The Four Waterways Behind the Erie Canal
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Clinton’s Ditch: How the Erie Canal Was Built
From Freight to Fun: The Canal’s Decline and Recreational Rebirth
Low Bridge, Everybody Down: The Song That Remembers the Mules
Mother of Cities: How the Canal Built Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Utica
The Amateur Engineers Who Built America’s First Great Public Work
The Barge Canal: The Machine-Age Erie You Actually Boat On
The Enlarged Erie: The Forgotten Canal in the Middle
The Erie Canal at 200: What the 2025 Bicentennial Celebrated
The Lockport Flight of Five: The Erie Canal’s Western Engineering Climax
The Mule, the Hoggee, and the Towpath: Life and Labor on the Old Canal
The Packet Boat and the Westward Flood
The Reform Highway: How the Erie Canal Carried a Revolution in Ideas
The Songs of the Erie Canal
The Wedding of the Waters: The 1825 Ceremony That Announced America to Itself
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Cayuga Lake Wildlife Management Area
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Erie Canal
Cayuga Lake Wildlife Management Area
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Courtesy of I LOVE NY / NYS DEC
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Parks & Nature
Phone
(585) 226-2466
Coordinates
42.93755, -76.75331 ↗
Website
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Montezuma & the Cayuga–Seneca Junction ↗
