Resources & Links

More information about the Erie Canal is available through the following resources:

• Books About the Erie Canal
• Essays About the Erie Canal
• Websites About the Erie Canal

Books About the Erie Canal

• Cruising America's Waterways: The Erie Canal
  by Debbie Daino Stack, Andrew Cuomo, and Ronald S. Marquisse
  Hardcover: 224 pages. Publisher: Media Artists Inc.
  (July, 2001)

• Erie Canal: Canoeing America's Great Waterway
  by Peter Lourie
  Paperback: 48 pages. Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
  (January, 1999)
  Reading level: Ages 9-12

• Erie Canal, New York's Gift to the Nation, a Document-Based Teacher Resource
  by F. Daniel Larkin, Julie C. Daniels, and Jean West, editors
  Paperback: 303 pages. Publisher: Cobblestone Publishing Co.
  (May, 2001)

• Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854
  by Ronald E. Shaw
  Paperback: 433 pages. Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
  (August, 1990)

• Marco Paul's Travels on Erie Canal
  by Jacob Abbott
  Hardcover: 203 pages. Publisher: Heart of the Lakes Publishing Co.
  (January, 1987)

• Minnie the Mule and the Erie Canal
  by Lettie A. Petrie
  Paperback: 76 pages. Publisher: Petrie Press
  (July, 2001)
  Reading level: Ages 9-12

• Mostly Canallers: Collected Stories (New York Classics)
  by Walter D. Edmonds
  Paperback: 467 pages. Publisher: Syracuse University Press
  (May, 1987)

• Silver Ribbon Skinny: The Towpath Adventures of Skinny Nye, a Muleskinner on the Ohio & Erie Canal, 1884
  by Marilyn Seguin, Adolph Caso, editor
  Paperback: 86 pages. Publisher: Branden Publishing Co.
  (August, 1996)
  Reading level: Ages 9-12

• The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
  by Carol Sheriff
  Paperback: 252 pages. Publisher: Hill & Wang Publishers
  (June, 1997)

• The Road to Home
  by Mary Jane Auch
  Paperback: 224 pages. Publisher: Yearling Books
  Reprint (January, 2002)
  Ages 9-12
  Third book in a trilogy

• Timmy O'Dowd and the Big Ditch: A Story of the Glory Days on the Old Erie Canal
  by Len Hilts
  Hardcover: 91 pages. Publisher: Harcourt Young Classics
  (October, 1988)
  Reading level: Ages 9-12

Essays About the Erie Canal

• Art and Nature: Touring on a Packet Boat
  by Carol Sheriff

• Building the "Grand Canal"
  by F. Daniel Larkin

• Canal Structures
  by F. Daniel Larkin

• De Witt Clinton and the Erie Canal
  by F. Daniel Larkin

• Enlisting National Support
  by Ronald E. Shaw

• Erie Canal Freight
  by F. Daniel Larkin

• Job Mattison Looks for a New Home
  by Carol Sheriff

• Navigation Before the Erie Canal
  by Philip Lord, Jr.

• Preserving the Sabbath
  by Carol Sheriff

• The Canallers
  by F. Daniel Larkin

• The Erie Canal and the Natural Landscape
  by Tom Grasso

• The Freeman Family
  by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin

• The Railroads and New York's Canals
  by F. Daniel Larkin

Websites About the Erie Canal

• Canals (general information, includes Erie Canal)

• Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum

• Dry Docks of the Erie Canal

• Erie Canal Documents

• Erie Canal Museum – Syracuse

• Erie Canal On-line

• Erie Canal Teacher’s Guide – LaGuardia and Wagner Archives

• First Grade Lesson 1: The Erie Canal Helped Settle the Midwest

• Holland Patent Teacher Center – Erie Canal DBQ

• Houghton Mifflin Social Studies – The Erie Canal

• Library of Congress - (American Memory)

• Marco Paul’s Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage

• New York State Archives – Guide to Canal Records

• New York State Canal Corporation

• New York State Museum – Bateau “Discovery” Project

• NYCanal.Com

• PBS Learning Adventures in Citizenship – The Erie Canal

• Rochester Images

• The Erie Canal

• The Erie Canal – A Journey Through History

• The Erie Canal in Medina, New York

• The Erie Canal – Slide Presentation

• University of Rochester – History of the Erie Canal