STGT:BNF 13:Grand Erie Canal Traditional Geocache
BarbershopDru: Sorry to see this one go. No clue how active the coin trail is any more.
STGT:BNF 13:Grand Erie Canal
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Enjoy this historic juncture of the Grand Erie Canal, as you make your way near the Seaway Trail.
AT 9:00 AM on the twenty-sixth day of October, eighteen and twenty five, the Grand Erie Canal was officially opened. In Buffalo at the foot of Main Street, Governor DeWitt Clinton boarded the packet boat “Seneca Chief”, which was elegantly outfitted for the trip to New York City. When the Seneca Chief, with the governor aboard, arrived in Pendleton at the intersection of Tonawanda Creek and the Grand Erie Canal, the packet boat “William C. Bouck”, met the governor with a delegation from Lockport aboard. The flotilla of boats proceeded to Lockport for a gala celebration.
Please see the monument of this occasion located nearby at N 43*05.119, W 078*44.046.
This is the first in the changes in the canal from using existing waterways to the man-made canal. Looking from the bridge one side to the other, you will see the difference.
Buffalo-Niagara Falls Region. There are 15 caches hidden within this region, and This cache is placed as part of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail, located within the geocachers finding 10 or more Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail caches within this region can earn a free Buffalo-Niagara Falls Region geocoin. If you are interested in participating in the Geotrail, please visit www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail for a list of locations where you can pick up a free copy of the official Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail Logbook.
This cache contains a unique hole punch which must stay with the cache. Use this hole punch in space #_13_ on the Buffalo-Niagara Falls Region page of your Official Great Lakes Seaway Trail Logbook. This hole punch is NOT a trade item.
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