1. Erie Canal, finished in 1825, which remained profitable all the way out into the 1880s.

2. Breezes sits on 10 acres of land nestled between the Erie Canal and the Mohawk River.

3. Clinton County officially came into existence on March 1, 1830, and was named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the seventh Governor of New York State, and architect of the Erie Canal

4. Co-founded by Paul Williams and surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve General Simon Perkins, Akron was settled in 1825 as a strategic point at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal.

5. A Canal is a long, man-made strip of water used for irrigation or boat access to a bigger body of water, like the famous Erie Canal, which connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie.

6. Nestled between the Erie Canal and the Mohawk River, Breezes sits on 10 acres of land, which is one of the largest park like settings in the City of Utica, providing the most exquisite and personalized experiences for our guests.

7. ‘A canal, carried over the Mersey on an Aqueduct, was constructed by authority of Parliament.’ ‘(The lower level of the Aqueduct was intended as a bridge for people to use, and it remains this to this day).’ ‘It was the only Aqueduct on the Erie Canal to carry both a water trough and a towpath over a river.’

8. The Erie Canal in New York is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal).It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, originally stretching for 363 miles (584 km) from the Hudson River in Albany to Lake Erie in Buffalo.