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Erie Canal opens

The canal opened in 1825, connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie. Newspaper pages from 1825 to 1826 on a map and timeline.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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304 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (55 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-01-21, page 2

    … ductions were destined to pass through this channel to market. Take, for example, the Erie canal—a work which would do honor to any' country —however impor tant were the benefits …

  2. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-01-21, page 3

    … land communication from the centre of Carolina to our Northern Lakes, of which the Erie canal formed another link, connected as they would soon be, by the waters of the Hudson …

  3. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-01-24, page 3

    … canal to North Carolina. You may soon also pass from the great lakes through the Erie canal to the Hudson, to the South. The ef fects must be incalculable. The interests of …

  4. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-01-25, page 2

    … inquire into the expediency of establishing a mail route from Fulham’s Basin, on the Erie Canal, by the way of Penfield, on the North road to Rochester, in the county of Monroe …

  5. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-02-25, page 2

    … Dillahuiity; a copy of the records of the Board in relation to the Ohio and Lake Erie canal routes, and nineteen maps, general and particular, of the several sections of country …

  6. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-02-26, page 2

    … Altho the Board had not time to decide between the various routes for the Ohio and Erie Canal, as confidently as of the several routes between the Potomac and Ohio rivers, they …

  7. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-03-14, page 2

    … county of Ontario, through the village of Vienna, to the village of Newark, on the Erie canal. From the village of Pen Yan, in the county of Yates, to the village of Yatesville …

  8. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-04-01, page 2

    … the western portion of this Canal, con necting it with the Ohio; of the Ohio and Erie canal, and of the other routes which were ex amined by the Board in the course of the …

  9. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-04-28, page 3

    … Cayuga and Seneca canal, by which the na vigation between the Seneca lake and the Erie canal will be rendered perfect, 150 000 dollars. The improvement of the navigation of …

  10. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-06-16, page 2

    … life. Travelling Grocery Stores. —There are now under sailing orders, on the Grand Erie Canal, three large substantial boats of the first class, having, besides room for the …

    … furnish to their customers and tavern-keepers, at all places on the line us the Erie Canal, at the New York prices, with the ad dition of five per cent, commission and custom …

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