The Erie Rising
All along its 360-mile route, towns to which the canal gave birth are looking to its powerful ghost for economic revival.Rosanne HaggertyApril 2001Armed with a faded picture and a dream, we set out...
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John Steele GordonFebruary/March 20071. 1606: The Virginia Company is formed to seek profit from a new business: American settlement. 2. 1612: John Rolfe plants West Indian tobacco in Virginia, the...
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How a debt-ridden banana republic became the greatest economic engine the world has ever knownJohn Steele GordonFebruary/March 2007It has been 400 years since European settlement began in what is now...
View Article"Little Short Of Madness"
A bold dream to connect the Hudson to the Great Lakes by canal created a transportation revolutionEdwin G. BurrowsWinter 2010As mayor of New York City and later as governor of New York State, De Witt...
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