The Erie Canal in the Finger Lakes Region
by Emerson Klees
Publisher: Friends of the Finger Lakes Publishing, 1996
Price: $16.95
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The Erie Canal in the Finger Lakes includes a review of the proposals to build waterways during the 100 years preceding the canal’s completion in 1825, a brief history of the building of the canal, eight stories that describe life on the canal, the villages along the canal, short biographies of seven people who were instrumental in the planning and the construction of the canal, and an Epilogue about the future of the canal. Also included in information on places to see and things to do along a thirty-mile-wide strip across the northern section of the Finger Lakes Region -- fifteen miles north of the canal to Lake Ontario and fifteen miles south of the canal to Routes 5 and 20.
6x9 full color softcover
ISBN: 0-9635990-2-X
