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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

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the Erie Canal right down the road. The canal connected New York State (and thereby New York City) to frontier settlements in the Midwest via a navigable waterway that ran through the western part of the state. It made New York City the premier commercial port of North America’s East Coast, surpassing Boston and Philadelphia.

— Malcolm Harris

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