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Buffalo native here (where the Erie Canal ends) - the Canal is very much in use still today. No horses pulling barges though anymore! Big news in Buffalo this
by qrush 2y ago
Buffalo native here (where the Erie Canal ends) - the Canal is very much in use still today. No horses pulling barges though anymore!
Big news in Buffalo this week was a new pedestrian bridge just pulled into town via the Canal after spending a few weeks winding its way across the state:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rwparkbuffalo/albums/72177720318829848/with/53862047599 https://www.flickr.com/photos/rwparkbuffalo/albums/721777203...
- brnt 2y agoI don't live anywhere near the Erie Canal (but in the NL), and when she was still around my grandmother once told me of a journey by horse drawn barge. I suddenly understood how much change she had seen in her life!
- jjice 2y agoAlso a Buffalo native! I'm interested if this experience was universal, but in elementary school, it felt like we had a history unit about the Erie Canal every year. I must've had three field trips over the years to see the Lockport locks.