Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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200 years ago, the opening of the Erie Canal solved one of America's biggest logistical problems: how to quickly move people and goods from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

New York governor DeWitt Clinton pushed for a canal linking Lake Erie to the Hudson River and New York City, drastically cutting travel time and costs and helping launch America's Industrial Revolution.

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