Keg poured in the Wedding of the Waters

The completion of the Erie Canal was celebrated with a grand event that featured a series of cannon shots stretching from Buffalo to New York City. Governor DeWitt Clinton led a flotilla of boats aboard the *Seneca Chief*, traveling the length of the canal over ten days. In a symbolic ceremony, Clinton poured water from Lake Erie into New York Harbor to represent the "Wedding of the Waters." Upon returning to Buffalo, Buffalo's future Mayor Samuel Wilkeson poured a keg of Atlantic Ocean water into Lake Erie, commemorating the connection between the two bodies of water.