What Canal allows a navigable water route from New York City to the Great Lakes and was created shortly after Blackstone River Valley?
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park:  The Blackstone River Valley was the site of some of the earliest successful textile mills in the United States, and these mills contributed significantly to the earliest American Industrial Revolution. Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park:  The subsequent construction of the Blackstone Canal, a few years after the successful completion of the Erie Canal, helped to sustain the region's industrial strength. Erie Canal: The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). Erie Canal:  Originally, it ran 363 mi from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie.
Erie Canal