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 Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park is a National Park Service unit in the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The park was created for the purpose of preserving, protecting, and interpreting the industrial heritage of the Blackstone River Valley and the urban, rural, and agricultural landscape of that region. 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. 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.
Cross River (New York) The Cross River is a short river in southern New York State that rises near the hamlet of Cross River in the township of Lewisboro. After its rising point, it makes a loop, heading SE, then SW, then NW, and finally west. It continues a few miles in that direction until it ends up in the Cross River Reservoir, a part of the New York City Watershed System. It flows out of the spillway at the end of the reservoir and joins the Croton River in Katonah.