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From: "Dennis Reiley" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Travel -Erie Canal to Ill
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:46:02 -0400
References: <16903-3AD094F6-835@storefull-285.iap.bryant.webtv.net>

Travel on the Erie Canal like the Morris Canal in New Jersey was by
canalboat. The National Canal Museum has a website at
http://www.canals.org/.

The canals were very popular transportation for cargo and also passengers
until the railroads started to replace them after the Civil War. Their
heyday was pretty much over by the 1880s although they were still used into
the 1900s. My 2nd great grandfather left the Morris Canal for Michigan in
1880.

Best wishes,
Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Hankins" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 12:42 PM
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Travel -Erie Canal to Ill


> I am looking for information on early ( 1851) travel from Hunterdon to
> Ill.
> My family left Hunterdon in the Spring of 1851, a rather large group.
> They had sold land near Pattenburg N.J. and traveled to Peoria Ill, via
> Erie Canal. and down the Illinois River.
> Were these trips common at that time?
> What kind of boat was used?
> Were any records of passengers kept?
> Intreated in any history of this travel in the mid 1800s
>
> Thank You
>
> Barbara
>
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