DeWitt Clinton was 48 when, at the beginning of his first term as New York State Governor (1817-1822), he advocated for construction of the Erie Canal. The canal was finished at the beginning of his second term (1825-1828). The first shipping route between the country’s interior and the Atlantic Ocean, the Erie Canal turned New York City into an economic powerhouse. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
NY State Governor DeWitt Clinton had the foresight to build the Erie Canal
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
