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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1045604" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 26 Oct 1825, After 8 years of digging ... and digging ... and digging, Clinton’s Big Ditch was completed.&nbsp;(That’s not Bill Clinton, but De Witt Clinton, governor of the state of New York at the time.) The 363-mile-long inland waterway, connecting Lake Erie to New York City by way of the Hudson River, opened to&nbsp;boat&nbsp; traffic&nbsp; on this day in 1825.&nbsp;Cannons fired in celebration and folks lined the route to cheer the $7,602,000, pet project of Governor Clinton.&nbsp;He knew that this, the first major, man-made waterway in the U.S. would be enormously important to the settlement&nbsp;of the&nbsp; Great Lakes region.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1045604, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 26 Oct 1825, After 8 years of digging ... and digging ... and digging, Clinton’s Big Ditch was completed. (That’s not Bill Clinton, but De Witt Clinton, governor of the state of New York at the time.) [/B][B]The 363-mile-long inland waterway, connecting Lake Erie to New York City by way of the Hudson River, opened to boat traffic on this day in 1825. Cannons fired in celebration and folks lined the route to cheer the $7,602,000, pet project of Governor Clinton. He knew that this, the first major, man-made waterway in the U.S. would be enormously important to the settlement of the Great Lakes region.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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