Field Trip to the NYSM: The Windlass of the Erie Canal
Join Senior Historian and Curator, Brad Utter, for a tour of the giant windlass in our exhibit Enterprising Waters: New York's Erie Canal. Check out this cool structure, learn how it worked, and how the canal warehouse served as the “Amazon of the 19th century”.
The New York State Museum is a program of the University of the State of New York
New York State Education Department