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The Erie Canal Travel Guide

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Tracing the canal through Western New York

To order a copy send a check for $4 for first copy by snail mail to Clarion Publications, P.O. Box 9, Geneseo, N.Y. 14454 (price includes postage and handling). Additional copies are available for just$3. Get 10 or more for only $2 @ Call 1-800-346-9770 for educational or consignment rates or for credit card orders.

The Erie Canal Travel Guide takes you on a slow-paced journey from Montezuma to Lockport. This 60-page full color book includes detailed maps showing points of interest along the canal and features:
* Early canal history. Who built the canal? How? Who wanted it? Who fought it?
* New technology. What tools, machines and engineering concepts were invented to dig the canal and make it work? How was the Niagara Escaprment conquored?
* Canal town profiles. Read about Rochester, America's firsts boomtown, Bushnell's Basin, Pittsford, Fairport, Spencerport, Brockport, and all the ports from Montezuma to Lockport.

There's fun along the canal. Festivals, carnivals, entertainment, shops, restaurants. Find out where to enjoy an authentic mule-powered canal boat ride. Where do the hikers, bikers, walkers and runners go?

There's education along the canal. Every canal town has museums and historical societies. Learn about Seneca Falls with its National Women's Hall of Fame and Women's Rights National Historical Park.