by
Edward P. Fynmore, Harney J. Corwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
Black River Canal documents in images how a manmade river transformed a region. This upper New York State canal was an improbable engineering success. In 1825, DeWitt Clinton proposed construction of a canal that would link the Erie Canal at Rome with the Black River at Lyons Falls. The idea was well...