Erie Basin Harbor & Park (New York City, New York)

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A large man-made harbor named for Lake Erie and the Erie Canal which once provided copious amounts of grain from the Midwest. Erie Canal boats would discharge their cargo here and in the Gowanus Canal before traveling back up the Hudson and on to the Great Lakes.

"It was William Beard’s vision and enterprise that transformed a million square feet of submerged marshland in remote Red Hook, into Erie Basin, the largest man-made harbor and storage depot on the eastern seaboard. Far from the farms of the Midwest, the Beard St. Warehouse was part of a complex of grain terminals, warehouses, wharfs and shipyards constructed by Beard to accommodate goods and materials bound for New York Harbor via the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal."

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