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Canalside Then & Now for Students 1 2018 School Tour Grid During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities #1 Buffalo & Erie County Naval & This park contains US Navy Park opened in 1979, contains the USS Describe the Naval Park & ships. Military Park ships/boats that visitors can walk Sullivans, Little Rock, & Croaker Discuss the war memorials & their 1979 through. It also has special Visitors to the Naval Park can tour the commemorative, reflective purpose. monuments to help us remember ships - some people even sleep The Naval Park was established 1976 & opened soldiers from our area. overnight in them. Native American inhabitants, Village 1979. It is the largest inland park of its kind in the US. The ships displayed are: the destroyer USS Physical features affect where people of Buffalo, Burning of Buffalo, Sullivans, the guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock, The location of physical features settle. Many years ago, this area was importance of dredging the Buffalo & the submarine the USS Croaker. Museum affects where people settle and how harbor, Samuel Wilkeson, Buffalo building was constructed in 2008. traversed by Native Americans, mostly they live. Many years ago, this area Iroquois (Haudenosaunee). Different chosen as terminus for Erie Canal Village of Buffalo became a port of entry in 1805. was occupied by Native Americans. European settlers moved through this instead of Black Rock. After the War of 1812 & the Burning of Buffalo, a Europeans eventually settled here, land, until it finally became the Village ---- group of citizens founded the Buffalo Harbor and this area became the Village of of Buffalo in the early 1800s. After the Have you ever donated your time or Company (1819) & began trying to raise funds to Buffalo. War of 1812, Buffalo was burned to money to something you believe build a functioning harbor. the ground. We needed a way to help strongly in? rebuild our economy. Many initially pledged support, but ultimately the Citizens, members of a community small group had to use their own funds to support or group, helped to create Buffalo’s A small group of citizens put in their the project. An experienced harbor engineer was waterfront. Because of the hard hired but was unable to complete the project, so own time & money to work together Samuel Wilkeson, one of the members of the work of many citizens, we were & dredge the Buffalo harbor, which original group, took over & led the building efforts chosen to be the end point for the became a deciding factor in Buffalo despite his lack of experience. With the help of Erie Canal, which helped us grow & becoming the terminus of the Erie Buffalo citizens, the harbor was completed in just develop as a city. Canal (Black Rock, just a little ways 221 days. Buffalo then became Black Rock’s major ---- north of here, was a tough competitor competitor for the Western Terminus of the Erie for the terminus). Canal. Why is water important to helping communities exist & grow? Canalside Then & Now for Students 2 2018 School Tour Grid During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities #2 Commercial Slip This is called a slip. It’s like a A slip is like a water bridge that Factors such as new economic theories & bridge for boats. Imagine if all connect two different bodies of water practices and technological innovations The restored Commercial Slip is an of us were trying to get over and helps to speed up traffic. This area influence the development of new systems important representation of the one bridge all at the same time. was once a thriving hub called the of communication, transportation, & Canal Era. After the Canal was It’d be pretty crowded! But if Canal District - shops, saloons, production. completed, waterways bustled with there were ten different businesses, warehouses, lots of boats. activity and became congested. Ship bridges we could all choose Definition of a slip; discuss thriving Canal canals and slips were used to lessen from, things would be a lot Commerical Slip was filled in the District & how this area was once full of the delays and overall congestion. easier. Slips were water bridges 1920s, when Canal use was becoming shops, saloons, businesses, warehouses, & Several other slips/canals in the that connected different parts less popular. It was restored in 2008. boats. Filling in & restoration of waterfront included Prime Slip, Ohio of the canal & helped speed up Commercial Slip. Ruins, Dug’s Dive. Slip & Basin, Coit Slips… traffic, since there used to be a Point out the ruins. Imagine if this slip ---- lot of boats here. were lined with buildings packed What types of engineers are there? (Civil, Commercial slip was filled in the together on both sides. That’s what Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical…) 1920s. The lowest portion of the Those ruins are part of a this area was once like! Commercial Slip was restored as part building that stood here almost ---- What sort of engineer might be of the Canalside Restoration Project 200 years ago. We uncovered Engineers design things like slips to responsible for designing something like a & dedicated July 2, 2008. them when we were digging help make life easier. Do you know of slip? (Civil = design, construction, & this slip. any other things in your community maintenance of the physical & natural The ruins beside the slip are the ---- that might have been designed by built environments) uncovered foundations of a canal-era Engineers are the people who engineers to make life easier? building which served many different design things that help solve Do you know of any other things in your purposes. Dug’s Dive, “dive bar” problems, like slips. Have you community that might have been designed owned by former slave William ever had an idea for a way to by engineers to make life easier? Douglas. fix a problem? “Wedding of the Waters” Canalside Then & Now for Students 3 2018 School Tour Grid During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities #3 Erie Canal Map Using the map, show where grain People adapt to and modify their Jesse Hawley, DeWitt Clinton, & 1817-1825 come from in the Midwest, point environment in order to meet their creation of the Erie Canal. Grain out Lake Erie and the Atlantic needs. Some geographic factors make shipment before v. after the Erie Jesse Hawley, a flour merchant who Ocean, and explain how people meeting needs easier, while others act Canal. Canal statistics. had gone bankrupt due to the high wanted an easy way to get grain as deterrents. cost of shipping grain to the coast, from the lake to the ocean. Either The Erie Canal was a major factor that was an early major proponent for the they had to travel over land, which Use the map to explain what grain helped the US transform from an canal. He was supported by Governor was difficult due to the Appalachian shipment was like before and after the agrarian to an increasingly DeWitt Clinton. Skeptics dubbed the mountains, or they had to travel all Erie Canal. In order to connect the industrialized & urbanized society - project “Clinton’s Ditch/Folly” and the way down the Mississippi River Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, the cities & industries grew along the derided its vision. to Florida and all the way back up! Erie Canal was built. The project was canal route. It took weeks or sometimes supported by Governor DeWitt Clinton, ---- Construction of the Erie Canal began months, and was really expensive. and was widely criticized early on. But What other industries besides grain in Rome, NY in 1817. The canal the canal cut down the time of shipping would have flourished thanks to the opened in 1825. It was 363 miles long The Erie Canal was a human-made grain from weeks or months to about 7 Erie Canal? and had 83 locks. It cost over $7 waterway that connected the lake days. Also made shipping grain much million. and the ocean. Thanks to the Canal, cheaper - from $100/ton to only people & goods could now go $10/ton. Existing towns expanded and The Erie Canal prompted settlement, directly across New York State in grew along the canal. The Erie Canal commercial agriculture, and only about 7 days! It was much was the leading factor that helped manufacturing across upstate NY as cheaper, too. Buffalo transform into a thriving city. well as opened vast areas in the ---- middle of the American continent to How do we ship/move goods The Canal was 363 miles long and took similar development. today? 8 years to build. It cost $7 million. Discuss major products shipped along the Canal. Canalside Then & Now for Students 4 2018 School Tour Grid During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities #4 Whipple Truss Bridge Talk about different kinds of Squire Whipple was a visionary Squire Whipple, civil & mechanical materials with students - what engineer who revolutionized bridge engineering. The technological Squire Whipple was an engineer born materials are strong? What materials construction.