Not everyone was interested in a canal system in New York.
This, coupled with salt deposits at Syracuse and the need to transport that salt to the east coast, stimulated interest in a canal system across upper New York. An eight-horse wagon took 15 to 45 days at $100 per ton (0.9 tonne) for the journey from Buffalo to Albany.(1) As a result of these circumstances, New York State officials saw an opportunity for the future development of the area and also to provide a major western route for the United States. The overland movement of goods was cost prohibitive. Although the new nation greatly enlarged its boundaries by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the Appalachian Mountains and the lack of an interior interconnected waterway made it difficult to penetrate the vast forested lands to the west of the 13 original colonies.Īlbany, New York, was still a frontier town.
The Erie Canal - America's First Concrete ClassroomĪs the 19th Century dawned, the United States was still basically confined to the Atlantic coast.
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