Condé Nast Traveler
Iconic Passages Across America
For the country's 250th birthday, we sent writers on five quintessential journeys throughout America.
hauling barges from Albany to Buffalo
Erie Canal
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“The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the upper Great Lakes above Niagara Falls, vastly reducing the costs of transporting…”
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