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Great Bear Spring Recreation Area

Great Bear Spring Recreation Area — Photo: Courtesy of Friends of Great Bear

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Coordinates43.261147, -76.362789 ↗

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Which Canal Is This? The Four Waterways Behind the Erie Canal
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
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