The Blackstone Canal

Tom Keller presents “Artery to the Heart of the Commonwealth.”

A transportation revolution transformed the landscape, the economy, and the everyday lives of early 19th-century New Englanders. Following the success of New York’s Erie Canal, a canal was optimistically built from Providence, Rhode Island, to Worcester, Massachusetts. Although it failed after 20 years, it permanently changed the area.

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