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| Canal Boat Team |
Canals in John Johnston’s day were like turnpike highways to us: they slashed costs of taking farm goods to cities and drew business to the area. It’s no wonder Mr. Johnston worked hard to get the Miami & Erie Canal to run through his backyard! We got to ride on a replica canal boat around a remnant of the real Erie Canal—a shallow water ditch not wider than a two-lane road. These horses had an easy job compared to teams pulling boatloads of grain or coal!
6 comments:
Very interesting! I'd like to try that sometime.
What are the horses doing?
The canal waterways were truly a marvel of engineering with no bulldozers, Cats or backhoes. Just human backs to do all that digging.
The horses are pulling the ropeline attached to the canal boat. It moves pretty slowly.
Wow, that must have been some tiring job to walk behind those horses all day!
Looks like the tree behind the horses' heads is about to fall over!
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