thank you George, G>G>G>G>G> THANKS!!!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ---- From: George Richmond <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:02:26 PM Subject: Re: [NYERIE] St. Francis Church on River Road in Buffalo >this may NOT be the place to ask this question, but, seems that a >number of members know quite a bit about the Erie Canal, and this >exchange got me to thinking/questioning. > >Maybe some one could help me, or point me in the correct direction. > >Ancestors lived near Lake Placid (Black Brook, actually), Clinton >County, by 1840, and had moved on to near Chicago by mid 1840's. > >Would they have taken the Erie Canal as part of their trip from NY to IL??? Black Brook is about 20 miles west of Lake Champlain. They could have gone to the lake, somewhere near Port Kent, and found a boat southbound to the Champlain Canal. This connected to the Erie Canal at Waterford, NY, just north of Albany. The Erie Canal was the great migration route west, terminating in Buffalo, where one could find lake steamers west through the Great Lakes. There were very few rails in the mid 1840s. George ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ