Present huge funding and, in the nineteenth century in this project can only be described as unimaginable.
The then U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said that the program is \”almost crazy\” plan, he thought the Erie Canal is very unrealistic and not feasible, so they refused to provide support. However, Beverly was successful by the New York governor DeWitt Clinton .
Support, although many people because they do not agree with the construction of canals for the benefit of New York, so opponents can obstruct the canal construction everywhere bill the approval of the Erie Canal and known as \”DeWitt\’s stupid plan\” or \”DeWitt\’s small ditch\” and ridiculed, but Clinton April 17, 1816 in New York when the state legislature by .
The success of case of the Erie Canal plan to build support and funding approval.
Erie Canal plan is designed to dig 12 meters (40 feet) wide, 1.2 meters (4 feet) deep waterway, and accumulation of excavated soil slope land in the canal to plan for the canal trail. In the design of 1.07 m (3.5 feet) wide within a .