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Article: DIGGING UP THE 'LOST' CANAL OVERLOOKED ERIE PRECURSOR THE REAL PIONEER, STATE MUSEUM RESEA RCHER SAYS.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- November 17, 1991
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Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
A LBANY - Philip Lord Jr. is a one-man transportation history heretic working to blow the Erie Canal's exalted reputation right out of the water.
Lord, a senior archaeologist with the State Museum, has quietly uncovered the remains and is piecing together the facts of a little-known system of canals and artificial waterways that predated by three decades the historically revered Erie Canal.
Among Lord's finds during extensive archaeological digs are long-buried remnants - 18th-century wooden locks, stone canals and turning basins - that are believed to be among the earliest manmade inland waterways in all of ...