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Routes to Mackinac Island Records kept by the American Fur Company Voyageurs  Connected by narrow straits, three ...

Commercial shipping is a major economic activity on the five Great Lakes. The lakes were carved out by the last retreating glaciers and co...

In the late 18 th century, a remarkable group of men came on the American stage. Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, Jefferson….to n...

Buffalo, at the western terminus of the Erie Canal, was a very wealthy city in the19 th century. It was a prime site of architectural exp...

Trunk in which Huck Finn manuscript was found Caricature Front page - manuscript Serbo-Croatian translation In the...

Hard to believe but Oswego, NY, on Lake Ontario,   was the only spot in America where persons fleeing from the Nazi Holocaust found refu...

THE ERIE CANAL The Erie Canal, built 1817-1825, was a grand project relentlessly promoted by DeWitt Clinton and sometimes called “Cl...