40' x 28' x 4': The Erie Canal--One Hundred and Fifty Years

54 pp. CONTENTS: Rome, 4th July, 1817; The Erie Canal; Clinton's Ditch: Comment and Chronology; Map of the Erie Canal; Financing the Big Ditch; De Witt Clinton: Man and Dream; Starting from Rome: The First Engineers; Program of Events; Stanzas of the Great Western Canal; The Laterals; Utica and the Impact of the Canal; A School of Science on the Erie Canal; The Erie Canal in Song and Story; Historic Markers for the Old Canal; Canal Society of New York State; Historic Rome Development Authority; Commencement of Navigation on the Erie Canal.