A then- highly-inexperienced Benjamin Wright oversaw the construction of this system, which (*) DeWitt Clinton controversially supported.
A decade after this system first opened, it was expanded to connect to Oneida Lake, and a 20th century improvement on it implemented, rather than ran parallel with, the Mohawk River. A then- highly-inexperienced Benjamin Wright oversaw the construction of this system, which (*) DeWitt Clinton controversially supported. For ten points, name this canal that opened in 1825, greatly simplifying east-west transport across New York state to a namesake Great Lake.
A decade after this system first opened, it was expanded to connect to Oneida Lake, and a 20th century improvement on it implemented, rather than ran parallel with, the Mohawk River.
Erie Canal