Explorer S Guide Erie Canal A Great Destination Exploring New York S Great Canals

Author : Deborah Williams
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581579192

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Explorer's Guide Erie Canal: A Great Destination: Exploring New York's Great Canals by Deborah Williams Pdf

The Erie Canal: Great Destinations is the first comprehensive travel guide to New York State Canals and the communities and attractions found along them. Each chapter covers one canal, providing historical background as well as information on wineries, canal museums, restaurants, lodging, canal cruises and bike paths in all the major cities, many of the small towns and villages, and the two biggest Finger Lakes. The guide offers separate sections on Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Utica, and Rochester and their outlying areas, as well as a chapter on Niagara Falls. With coverage of three smaller canals in the region (the Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga-Seneca) this is undoubtedly the most extensive guide to the canalways of the state.

Author : Christine A Smyczynski
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780881507980

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Western New York Explorers Guide (Second Edition) by Christine A Smyczynski Pdf

The first and most comprehensive guide to the region. Here travelers will find Niagara Falls. And nearby, the Erie Canal ends its 300-mile trip as it empties into Lake Erie near Tonawanda. The "famous five" stair step locks that carried the canal over the Niagara Escarpment at Lockport are still preserved near the Erie Canal Museum. In Rochester, museums, cafés, and shopping abound. This book is the first comprehensive guide to this vast cultural, historic and natural destination. This guide also includes opinionated listings of inns, B&Bs, hotels, vacation cottages, and campgrounds; hundreds of dining recommendations, from roadside diners to four-star cuisine; up-to-date regional and downtown information; an alphabetical “What's Where” subject guide to aid in trip planning; and handy icons that point out places of extra value, family- and pet-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, and popular wedding venues.

Author : Debbie Daino Stack,Ronald S. Marquisee
Publisher : Media Artists
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0970888600

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The Erie Canal by Debbie Daino Stack,Ronald S. Marquisee Pdf

Focusing on the joys of travelling the canals of New York State and the famous Erie Canal, this accessible guide addresses the practical aspects of navigating canals. Featuring 225 colour photographs that showcase the waterways in all four seasons accompanied by informative text, it presents the canal system's evolution from an industrial transportation route to an exciting recreational waterway. Addressed are suggestions for taking full advantage of the canals when cruising on them; information on the mechanics of their unique locks, guard gates, and dams; and ideas for enjoying the cultural, recreational, and scenic opportunities along their routes.

Author : Horatio Gates Spafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Canals
ISBN : UOM:39015081795083

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A Pocket Guide for the Tourist and Traveller, Along the Line of the Canals, and the Interior Commerce of the State of New-York by Horatio Gates Spafford Pdf

Author : Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 1960 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 081560808X

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The Encyclopedia of New York State by Peter Eisenstadt Pdf

The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.

Author : John B. Papp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437919286

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Traveller's Pocket Directory and Stranger's Guide by John B. Papp Pdf

Reprint of an 1831 guide published in Schenectady, NY. At that time, people could travel from Albany, NY, to Buffalo, NY, on the recently built Erie Canal. This guide includes a list of broken banks -- rates of toll on the canals for 1831 -- as well as descriptions of the many towns along the canal, New York State stage roads, and the earliest railroads in the area. The booklet also contains the guide¿s original advertisements and wood cuts.

Author : Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393340204

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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation by Peter L. Bernstein Pdf

New York Times Bestseller The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public investments in American history. In Wedding of the Waters, best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal’s creation within the larger tableau of a youthful America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the Appalachian mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the Atlantic states with the vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as travel was critical to the security and expansion of the Revolution’s unprecedented achievement. Gripped by the same fever that had driven explorers such as Hudson and Champlain, a motley assortment of politicians, surveyors, and would-be engineers set out to build a complex structure of a type few of them had ever actually seen, let alone built or operated: a manmade waterway cut through the mountains to traverse the 363 miles between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. By linking the seas to the interior and the interior to the seas, these pioneers ultimately connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to demonstrate how the canal’s creation helped bind the western settlers in the new lands to their fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews of the American industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic change in Europe. Featuring a rich cast of characters that includes political visionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin van Buren; the canal’s most powerful champions, Governor DeWitt Clinton and Gouverneur Morris; and a huge platoon of Irish and American diggers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:39195245

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Railway and Engineering Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Bonner,George William Curtis,Henry Mills Alden,Samuel Stillman Conant,Montgomery Schuyler,John Foord,Richard Harding Davis,Carl Schurz,Henry Loomis Nelson,John Kendrick Bangs,George Brinton McClellan Harvey,Norman Hapgood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117434139

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Harper's Weekly by John Bonner,George William Curtis,Henry Mills Alden,Samuel Stillman Conant,Montgomery Schuyler,John Foord,Richard Harding Davis,Carl Schurz,Henry Loomis Nelson,John Kendrick Bangs,George Brinton McClellan Harvey,Norman Hapgood Pdf

Author : Parks & Trails New York
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1438461607

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Cycling the Erie Canal, Revised Edition by Parks & Trails New York Pdf

An indispensable resource for dedicated cyclists planning to bike across the state or the casual rider looking to take the family out for a couple of hours. Great for walkers, boaters, and auto travelers, too. The Erie Canalway Trail is a cycling destination for riders of all abilities. Following one of the world’s most famous manmade waterways, it spans New York State between Albany and Buffalo. Whether enjoying a leisurely ride from one village to another, or spending a week completing the entire 360 miles, the Erie Canalway Trail offers endless adventures exploring the charming towns, living history, scenic beauty and cultural attractions of New York State. The trail route follows both active and historic sections of the Erie Canal. For more than thirty years, state and local governments have been transforming the old towpath and abandoned rail corridor into a 360-mile multi-use pathway; by 2015, more than three-quarters of the off-road route was in place. The guidebook is designed primarily for use by bicyclists, but it is also useful for those planning to enjoy the trail on foot, travelling the canal system by boat, or visiting the Canal corridor’s many sites by car. The revised edition includes new inset maps to guide trail users through complicated stretches. All new trail segments developed since 2012 have been added, along with on-road routing updates. The guide’s comprehensive listings of attractions, historic sites, visitor centers, and parks make it an indispensable resource for dedicated cyclists planning to bike across the state or the casual rider looking to take the family out for a couple of hours.

Author : Warren Academy of Sciences, Warren, Pa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027433668

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Transactions by Warren Academy of Sciences, Warren, Pa Pdf

Author : Robert G. Shibley,Bradshaw Hovey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Buffalo Harbor (N.Y.).
ISBN : MINN:31951D01981806V

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A Canal Conversation by Robert G. Shibley,Bradshaw Hovey Pdf

Author : Warren Academy of Sciences, Warren, Pa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5311153

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Transactions of the Warren Academy of Sciences by Warren Academy of Sciences, Warren, Pa Pdf

Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : 1563977036

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Hudson River by Peter Lourie Pdf

An account of the author's 315-mile canoe trip down the Hudson River.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076002068612

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Smithsonian by Anonim Pdf