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While it was being constructed, political rivals New York City mayor Dewitt Clinton labeled the Erie Canal as "Clinton's Folly" and "Clinton's ditch."
62% of the United States' trade went through the Erie Canal in 1853.
The Erie Canal was entirely constructed without dynamite.

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