Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Erie Canal” in region 26, place 116 of George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities.:

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a village of 3,000 pop., in Ridgeway township, on Orchard River, Erie Canal and rochester, Lockport & Niagara Falls Railroad.
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Erie Canal (New York, United States) 56 38 0 0 0 user votes
Erie Canal (Ohio, United States) 30 20 0 0 0 user votes
Erie Canal (Colorado, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Erie Canal (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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