Frozen Passage- The Erie Canal & Winter Trade

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Across
  1. 2. “Low Bridge, Everybody Down!” canal song city
  2. 7. Frozen cargo carried east from Buffalo
  3. 8. Grew rich from grain elevators near the canal
  4. 10. River crossed by Erie Canal aqueducts
  5. 11. Direction barges floated to NYC
  6. 13. Pulley-filled room on a canal boat
  7. 16. Port city at Erie Canal’s western end
  8. 17. What froze, halting trade entirely
  9. 19. Mystery cargo once rumored aboard
  10. 20. Canal-side tavern warmth source
  11. 21. Town where ghost lock keeper roams
Down
  1. 1. Nickname for the Erie Canal
  2. 3. Whistle heard across frozen locks
  3. 4. Frozen fog along canal mornings
  4. 5. Wore red flannel and shoveled snow
  5. 6. Used to break winter canal ice
  6. 9. Wintry coat of ice on rope and rail
  7. 12. Canal boatman’s ghost dog, by legend
  8. 14. Haunted tales followed these vessels
  9. 15. Month when canal trade often halted
  10. 16. Long, narrow home for some traders
  11. 18. Barge-pulling beast of burden