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Erie Canal 1845, I/C Bond and 1856 Manhattan Company Payment Receipt for 4 Bonds to Enlarge the Erie

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:170.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 500.00 USD
Erie Canal 1845, I/C Bond and 1856 Manhattan Company Payment Receipt for 4 Bonds to Enlarge the Erie
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Pennsylvania & New York, 1845 and 1856. Lot of 2 pieces, Includes: 1845, Erie Canal Company $75 I/C 6% Bond, Black text with black border on light blue paper, allegorical women at left and right, Canal image at top center, Handwritten list of interest payments, VF condition; and, 1856, Manhattan Company, State of New-York, Transfer Office, $70,000 "being in full payment of 4 certain Certificates, issued...for the Enlargement of the Erie Canal," VF condition. The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east-west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians. In effect, the canal accelerated the settlement of the Great Lakes region, the westward expansion of the United States, and the economic ascendancy of New York State. It has been called "The Nation's First Superhighway." (2)