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4 days ago · The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians.
- May 17, 1821; 202 years ago
- July 4, 1817; 206 years ago (at Rome, New York)
- 351 miles (565 km), (originally 363 mi or 584 km)
- Upstate New York
1 day ago · In 1854 the names of the original streets, Cross, Anthony, Orange, and Little Water, which had formed the Five Points intersection (marked with a star) from which the neighborhood derived its name were changed to Park, Worth, Baxter and Mission Place, respectively. The map also shows the locations of several key landmarks of the mid-nineteenth ...
5 days ago · He came to American in 1842 and leased property in Northampton County and entered the slate industry and organized the Chapman Slate Company. The quarry enticed many slaters to come to Chapman to work in the quarry. Many boarded in company homes. As a result, the population of the borough peaked at 700 around the turn of the century.
4 days ago · October 19, 1966 [2] St. Patrick's Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York as well as a parish church. The cathedral occupies a city block bounded by Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, 50th Street, and 51st Street, directly across from Rockefeller Center.
- United States
- 631 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City
6 days ago · The 1872 Report of Commissioners on Bureau of Labor Statistics to the [New Hampshire] Legislature is a rich source of both prices dating from the 1800s: pages 34-36 focus on 1800-1810; pork, beef, veal, and butter prices are discussed on p.24; and a chart (p.32) provides prices for particular foods, articles of clothing, shoes, various ...
- Marie Concannon
- 2012
6 days ago · Railroad wages by country, 1886-1889. Shows the average wages per annum for 8 railroad occupations in four different countries. Wages for the UK and the US (as well as New England) are from 1889. Wages for Prussia and Germany span from `886-1887. Source: 23 A.R. Board of Railroad Commissioners, pg. 81.
3 days ago · Location map of Maryland in the US. (Click on the map to enlarge) Maryland, one of the 50 US states, is located in the Mid-Atlantic region in the northeast of the United States. The state is bounded to the north by the Mason-Dixon line that forms the border with Pennsylvania. The Potomac River creates most of its border with West Virginia and ...
