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Article: CRUISE TO RECALL ERIE CANAL DAYS.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 19, 1988
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Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney Staff writer
I've got an old mule and her name is Sal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. She's a good worker and a good old pal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. We've hauled some barges in our day, Filled with lumber, coal and hay And ev'ry inch of the way we know from Albany to Buffalo.
Dubbed "Clinton's Ditch" by the many who doubted its feasibility, the Erie Canal is now hailed as one of the greatest engineering feats of its era.
With little technical knowledge or precedent to guide them, workers surveyed, blasted, and dug 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. They hewed through the hardest of solid rock and dug ...