“Waterford began its existence as the gateway to the Erie Canal system, the first stretch of which was built to bypass several waterfalls on the Mohawk River.”

—  James Howard Kunstler , book World Made By Hand

Source: World Made By Hand (2008), Chapter 28, p. 137

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