Erie Canal
what was traveling on the erie canal like in the old times? did it have something to do with a mule?
any ideas for writing a limerick on the erie canal?
The Erie Canal was built to connect the Hudson River Valley with Lake Erie, and the markets all around the Great Lakes region. It was both an engineering marvel, being 4 feet deep, 40 feet wide, and 326 miles long, and entirely dug by hand, but it was also one of the must financially successful ventures of its time. The canal was used more for the transportation of freight than passengers. The barges were pulled by either horses, mules, of oxen so it was almost a two week journey from end to end. Looking back it seems like being a "teamster" working on the canal would have been a glamorous, and romantic job, but actually it was very hard work.