Thomas Jefferson The great visionary president Thomas Jefferson was NOT a supporter of New York’s plan to build the Erie Canal! Remember that he’d watched his friend and fellow-Virginian George ...
Erie Canal Images from Vintage Postcards
. Many of the Erie Canal images we use here came from vintage postcards. Today we have texts and tweets. In the earliest years of the twentieth century though, they had penny postcards. Three things came together in the early 1900’s in this country that created a social phenomenon not unlike texting and tweets: … Read more