The Erie Canal                

 

 

People said, “You can’t make water run uphill.” They thought it would be impossible to build a canal across mountains and through wilderness.

Thomas Jefferson said it couldn’t be done. James Madison said it couldn’t be done.

But DeWitt Clinton proved them wrong. Thanks to him, the eighth wonder of the world was created. It was called the Erie Canal, and it changed America forever.
 

128 pages, w/ illustrations; hardcover
Published by National Geographic

  
 

When Marty speaks about the Erie Canal, she fiddles a few Irish tunes of the era. Many canal builders were Irish immigrants. They bragged, “God made the rivers, but the Irish made the canal!”

Table of Contents

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13 		High Speed!
Wedding of the Waters
Solution from a Jail Cell
Digging Clinton’s Ditch
Well Begun, Far From Done
All the Way – Almost
Locking Up and Down
Low Bridge
On the Move
Working Like a Mule
At Home on a Canalboat
Wheels of Progress
Let’s Cruise


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