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Erie Canal makes New York
1825
Albany to Buffalo, New York
Joshua Karn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Called Clinton's Ditch and expected to fail. It cut the cost of moving goods from the interior by roughly 95 percent, and made New York rather than Philadelphia or New Orleans the country's principal port within fifteen years.
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