Erie is one of the best-watered ... then along the Niagara River and over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario, down the St. Lawrence River and into the Atlantic Ocean. All water in the southern ...

Yet shortly after the locks opened in 1825, completing a man-made waterway that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, the critics were silenced, and the Erie Canal, one of the greatest ...

James Eights 1823 ink, wash, pencil on paper. Excavation on the Erie Canal. From “Memoir at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals,” 1825. Map of Erie Canal ...

(WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com) — “Clean water, healthy ecosystems & watersheds and vibrant coastal economies.” That’s the work the Pennsylvania Sea Grant does with a variety of partners to ...

The canal began upon the shores of Lake Erie in Buffalo and traversed about 350 miles east, where it made a sudden southward turn around Troy and emptied into the Hudson River in downtown Albany.

Built between 1817 and 1825, the Erie Canal provided a water route from Albany to Buffalo, New York, nearly 363 miles to the west. The Canal connected the Hudson River with the Great ... It is an ...

Some of that water will eventually make its way north to Lake Erie, while other droplets will flow south toward the Ohio River ... boundary known as the St. Lawrence Continental Divide.