Lecture- Ups & Downs: The Adirondacks Vital Contribution to The Erie Canal

PETE NELSON

The 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal on October 26th, 2025, is being celebrated statewide. It is the most consequential engineering project in American history. Adirondack surveyors Benjamin Wright and Charles Brodhead played a fundamental role in designing and building the canal, in large part because of their experience surveying through the abrupt vertical profiles of the Adirondacks. Nelson will share the significant contributions of Adk surveyors in the development of the Erie Canal.

You may also like the following events from Adirondack History Museum:

• This Friday, 1st August, 09:00 am, Farmers’ Market in Elizabethtown
• This Saturday, 2nd August, 05:00 pm, Colonial Garden Party in Elizabethtown
• Next Thursday, 7th August, 07:00 pm, Free Film Showing - If A Tree Falls - A Story of the Earth Liberation Front in Elizabethtown