Canals

Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum

The Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum preserves the memory of the 96-foot long cargo boats that were built and repaired on the site during the 19th and 20th centuries. The outdoors museum is located within the Old Erie Canal State Historic Park in Central New York State, and interprets the workings of the restored dry docks and the social history of this Erie Canal [...]

The Delaware and Raritan Canal

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park is a New Jersey state park along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, built in central New Jersey in the 1830s to connect the Delaware River with the Raritan River. The canal enabled shippers to greatly shorten the route from Pennsylvania coal fields to New York City, a route which formerly took them around Cape May and up along the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey. Most of the canal system was declared a State Park in 1974, and is now used for canoeing, kayaking, and [...]