Cheryl Harness

FROM SARAH:

This book tells the story of the construction of the Erie Canal, with detailed illustrations and a wonderful timeline.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreamed of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks didn’t believe such a thing could be done. Clinton wanted to link east coast ports to the frontier, and from the groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July in 1817, Clinton never gave up—even as people called his project “Clinton’s Ditch.”