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Great tour. Thanks for sharing

Great journey. Congratulations and thanks for sharing this.

In many developing countries, such solutions are more effective than roads or even railroads. Emerging economies produce raw materials that are highly susceptible to transportation costs. Canalizing rivers would make these economies very competitive without indebting future generations.

Gracias por los distintos videos wue nos muestran estos lugares tan importantes

Most diverse national park 😂. You need to visit more parks sir if you think that. The restoration aspect of the park is very cool.

I grew up a mile away from Bushnell's Basin and attended school in Pittsford. The canal has always been a part of everyday life.

thank you, very interesting. (from UK)

I spent many of my weekends and holidays in the Allegheny National Forest. I knew a couple families that owned a multi family camp. It was just a 2 room shack with a bunch of home made bunk beds, but we were there for the outdoors. We saw a lot of wildlife there the coolest sighting I had was of a pretty good sized bobcat. It's a beautiful place for sure.

Nice video. Wish you showed the low bridge in Lockport that is part of the Eerie Canal song. All should visit and take a ride on the Eerie Canal.

I lived in Rochester for several years in the 90’s and biked and ran on the towpath. It was only sporadically developed at that point. Towns like Pittsfield and Fairport (my home) had paved park sections. Interestingly, the current path through Rochester was a result of the 1916 revamp for barges. The canal path was shifted south and Today, the I-480 freeway spur through downtown runs in the old canal bed.

grew up in Lockport, instantly recognized that old green metal lock in the beginning lol also, just fyi Medina is pronounced "Dye-Na" not "Dee-Na". great video!

Did I miss your discussion on the Chenago Canal that ran north from Binghamton in to Utica (downtown) into the ORIGINAL Erie / or the Black River Canal System that ran north from Rome ? Also the starting point of construction of the Original Erie in Rome where the first shovel full of dirt was removed ?

You start in Buffalo - I am disappointed that you did not talk more about Clinton’s Ditch and the difference between todays modern updated / larger BARGE Canal vs the old original Erie Canal “ditch” As it still goes thru Canastota NY

Thank you for not describing the stone-dust surface as "gravel". [So many people misuse the term "gravel" that it's meaningless. -Geologists and road-builders say it's thumb-sized stones mixed with sand.] There is no gravel on the Erie Canalway Trail; I avoid any trail that somebody claims is gravel, although it's probably not necessary - because it isn't really gravel. -As I recall, 20 years ago, there was some coarse crushed stone (gravel without the sand) on the Champlain Canal Trail (the part included as an option on Cycling the Erie Canal. The first time, I rode on the grass; after that, I took NY-32.]

Thank you

We built similar canals in Ontario. I assure everybody that the Erie Canal was not for business although, like any infrastructure, it did add a lot of business. But that is not why it was built. Like in Ontario it was meant to avoid possible military conflict while sailing on Lake Ontario and the St-Lawrence river. These constructions were funded by governments as a result of the war of 1812.

It's pronounced "Os-Wee-Go.

Dude...that IS NOT the Erie Canal. It is the Barge Canal. The Erie Canal was abandoned in 1913 for its successor the Barge Canal. There are only a few pieces parts of the ORIGINAL REAL Erie Canal still intact but you certainly can not navigate on them. Why does NY and history buffs insist on telling the lies about it being the Erie Canal??? That's like telling the world the Titanic was a tugboat captained by Skipper Sam that sank in Lake Erie from a tidal wave.... Do some research so you know what you are talking about if you want to do historical videos!!! EVERYTHING you are showing here is of the Barge Canal!

Very well done! I learned many new things about the D-Day invasion!! Thanks for sharing.

I live in Bennington Vermont. Though its 40 or so miles from the canal, the battle of bennington is one of the most important, and less known battles of the revolutionary war. The bennington battle Monument was built to commemorate that battle, it is the second talles obelisk in the USA only slightly being beat by the Washington monument. However the bennington battle Monument sits up on a ridge of Mount Anthony. And on clear days from the observation room, you can see, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. If you like history, the monument and town at the base of the monument is worth seeing. The church and hotel was built in the 1600s.

Thanks for the video! I was born and raised in Cohoes and explored the old Erie canal and power canal ruins there. Biking up the Waterford chain of locks and the different types of maintenance facilities and parks along the way was a great local treat too.

Thanks for the tinnitus noise!

Forced out in '78. House burned. CVNP refugee. Now I live next door in Boston Twp.

i grew up in shaker and was a senior in high school....my best friend lived across the street from the bergers...very dark day.....

i went to the 80 year anniversary, but the american semetary was blocked by traffic, but i did go to the german one, and it does somthing to me, somthing emotional, just thinking what these victems of there time went true

Went here today, it’s awesome!!

The ignorance of some of the posters who are skeptical of the facts of the building of the canal is astonishing. It was a far greater engineering feat than the Panama Canal. It’s so easy to look up the facts morons or visit any of the visitors centers. There was three canals built. The original, enlarged and barge canal now renamed back to Erie Canal. Lock 18 is the most historically accurate left in the system. Actually most of the colonist combatants at the Battle of Oriskany were loyalists and Tryon County militia led by General Nicholas Herkimer who was mortally wounded at the battle fighting Indians and British soldiers led by General Barry St Leger.

Thank you.

I live in New York State I know what a canal means I didn’t know it existed in NY state thanks for the wonderful video knowledge is power. God bless this wonderful country USA and planet earth

25:11 Sko-HAIR-ee

18:24 The current Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York was built between 1839 and 1844 - long after the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and War of 1812. It replaced a log palisaded fort.

Hi. Sitting in my garden in Ireland on one of our few warm days, I watched your erie canal journey with pleasure. I feel so attached to it and its history since I researched it for my ebook And They Never Looked Back. The story of an Irish family who used that route to the Midwest payback when. Thank you for that pleasant cruise through history. Anne

The original design had no connection to Lake Ontario, which had these long-term effects: 1. There are few US ports on Lake Ontario; and 2. Canada was "forced" by competitive pressure to construct the Welland Canal (construction 1824-1829).

8:59 The Court Street dam in Rochester. The purpose of the dam is to actually hold back the Genesee River to raise it to the same level as the Erie Canal a few miles south where they cross eachother. This became necessary in 1919 when the canal was moved out of downtown Rochester. The video does not show the actual Erie Canal aqueduct down river from the dam that carried the canal over the Genesee River. It still stands, a testament to the engineers who built 18 original stone aqueducts by hand to bridge obstacles like rivers, streams and rocky terrain.

5:58 "These locks are fully operational..." He seems to be referring to the flight of five old original locks. They are not yet fully operational. The five were replaced with two modern locks over 100 years ago. A 2014 and 2019 restoration resulted in three locks being restored with wooden gates, operational for demonstration on Saturdays. Weekdays the lock gates are open and excess canal water is allowed to flow to create a waterfall effect only through the five locks. This water is also used to regulate the water in the canal eastward. All 5 locks were intended to be restored by the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal in 2025 but restoration of the final two locks has been held up by a lack of funding (as of this writing). When fully completed the goal is to allow small water craft like canoes and kayaks to use the restored flight of five locks. I was disappointed there wasn't a picture taken from a vantage point east of the locks, which would clearly show the 'staircase' of locks climbing the 75-foot tall Niagara Escarpment. This was one of the great engineering challenges when they built the canal!

3:42 Canalside in Buffalo is the location of the OLD terminus of the canal, which was moved north to suburban Tonawanda decades ago, where it joins the Niagara River. Canalside is there just for show. The old canal bed actually had to be excavated after buildings and other development buried it a century ago. Canalside is not an actual working canal but it is a nice venue for all kinds of downtown events. Kudos for showing the old warships! They have an impressive history all their own.

New York state built several arterial canals off from the Erie Canal. One of the lesser known but perhaps most important was the Genesee Valley Canal that linked the Erie Canal in Rochester to Olean in NY's Southern Tier, where it linked up with the Allegheny River. From there adventurous pioneers could float down the Allegheny to Pittsburg and take the Ohio all the way to the Mississippi River! However, by the 1880's, railroads made the Genesee Vallery Canal obsolete and it was closed. The RR closely followed the old canal path. In turn by the 1970s, modern road travel and super-highways were the death knell of the arterial railroads, and the old canal towpath is the Genesee Valley Greenway trail today. And by the 1920s, the Erie Canal came to be regarded as a nuisance and was re-routed outside of the cities of Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. Commercial traffic (barges) on the canal slowed and by the 1970s the Erie Canal became more of a recreation attraction/destination which it remains today!

Great job on the video. Thanks😊

Let's be truthful. The jobs did not dry up. The industries were bought by outsides and moved to China

I grew up 100 yards from the canal in Holley . I learned to fish there . My father use to raise and lower the lift bridge . I owned a few apt houses the backed up to the canal loop . One was a marina and let rooms . Very historic . I was in Buffalo at canal side where they were making an authentic canal boat .

Great pictures and good narration but very disappointed by the content. I wanted to know a lot more about the engineering challenges and how they were overcome. I also want to know about the role of the canal in commerce over its decades - what kind of economic growth did it foster and for how long? Where did if fail as a stimulus to commerce and linking the East to the Midwest via the Great Lakes? And what role did the canal to Lake Champlain play in commerce. Overall nice presentation but too many platitudes and too few hard facts regarding engineering and commerce.

Lived in Rochester in mid 60's & experienced the beauty & industry connected the Erie Canal. Thanks for the memories.

😮thank you soooo much for that I really appreciate that you spent your efforts on this Your technical skills are impressive:-)

Good video. On a minor note. Oswego is pronounced Aaz wee gow. Not aaz way gow

Just for accuracy Port Byron is not a town. It is a village in the town of Mentz.

Thats “ Med eye na “

Best Canal video ever. You did miss an old Aqueduct just East of Syracuse in Camillus, and next to Onondaga lake. I used to live a block away from it in Canastota, and went snowmobiling on the towpath a lot. I live in San Diego now, I took my GF back to see it last year, she had no idea how cool it is to see a working lock !

Cayouuuga, Osweeeeego. Great and informative video!

I was born and raised in Sheffield, but after 47 years in the military and civil service, I wound up in San Diego. I was in Sheffield just two weeks ago visiting family and enjoying the serenity of the property I grew up on. I visited Hector falls many times in my younger days. I was also lucky to fish the Farnsworth Creek while home. The area is still as beautiful as ever.

I was raised in Sheffield, but after 47 years in the military and civil service, I wound up in San Diego. I was in Sheffield just two weeks ago visiting family and enjoying the serenity of the property I grew up on. I visited Hectors Falls several times while growing up and I have been fortunate to fish on the Farnsworth creek recently with a brother and sister. The area is still as beautiful as ever.