Canal Links
(Please forward other sites for addition to this list.):
National Canal Museum (in Easton, PA)
American Canal Society Links Page
World Canals Conference website
History of the New York State Canals (1906) by Noble E. Whitford
Tug 44 - A photographic cruise log of the Travels of Tug 44 on the Erie Canal, Champlain Canal and Hudson River, including pictures of towns, locks, historical structures, boats, tugboats, lighthouses and other items of interest on the canals.
Early American Canals, University of Virginia
History of the Erie Canal, Rochester University
Lowell Historical Society website
The Incredible Ditch (Anne Miniver Press)
Life on the Middlesex Canal (Anne Miniver Press)
When the Road was a River
A story on the Middlesex Canal by Michael Kenney of the Boston Globe
Library of Congress: American Memory
A wealth of information and images. For example, enter "Middlesex Canal" into the search engine and get ready to be amazed by the abundance of high quality images.
Middlesex Canal Wikipedia page
If you are interested in reading about the "...vast system of narrow canals that connects England's byways and backways...", read “Afloat with Fly Boats and Leggers” in the June 2000 issue of Smithsonian magazine. An abstract with photographs is available on line.
Special Interest:
Photos of the Cochituate Aqueduct (c. 1848) from Natick to the Brookline Reservoir
Photos of the Sudbury Aqueduct (c. 1876) from Framingham to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir (Boston)
Cambridge on the Charles
by Alan Seaburg, Thomas Dahill, and Carol Rose
Illustration by Terry Pepper -- Learn more about the Wabash & Erie Canal