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