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an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo; built in the 19th century; now part of the New York State Barge Canal
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Canal built in the early 1800's that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River. The Erie Canal provided a water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes entirely within the United States.
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Most important and profitable of the barge canals of the 1820s and 1830s; stretched from Buffalo to Albany, New York, connecting the Great Lakes to the East Coast and making New York City the nation's largest port.
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