James Eights 1823 ink, wash, pencil on paper. Excavation on the Erie Canal. From “Memoir at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals,” 1825. Map of Erie Canal ...

The 136-mile man-made canal connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River and Pittsburgh beginning in 1844, when the first boats made the journey up the canal. It stopped operating in 1871, after the Elk ...

Oh yeah, and red-tailed hawks ... please complete phase two and extend this park all the way to Lake Erie.