No milk and honey for Norwegians in Western New York
On October 21, 1825, most of the Norwegian emigrants from the sloop Restauration boarded a steamship from New York to Albany. From Albany they traveled west on the brand-new Erie Canal. Only five days later, the whole length of the Erie Canal was officially opened, on October 26, 1825. New York governor DeWitt Clinton led […]
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