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By Lionel D. Wyld

Canastota and Chittenango proportion a development spawned by way of the development of the Erie Canal, the longest non-stop canal on the planet. those upstate manhattan groups additionally proportion a lot as well as their canal comparable heritage, for either have a historical past of early cost and townsfolk who have been leaders in production, agriculture, undefined, and nation politics. sign up for writer and historian Lionel D. Wyld during this exploration of the previous via conscientiously preserved historical photographs. Canastota and Chittenango: old Canal cities finds the $64000 hyperlink among those cities and a canal once
hailed as “the 8th ask yourself of the world.” either villages have canal similar museums and parks this day, in honor of the various ways that the waterway inspired the groups. In a extra well known realm, Chittenango boasts a different annual oz. competition each one may well honoring local author L. Frank Baum, author
of the fantastic Wizard of oz., and Canastota is domestic to the foreign Boxing corridor of reputation, based in 1984.

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