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NYS Canal System Announces Fall Hours of Operation

September 16, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

boat exits lock 2 on the erie canal in waterfordEffective Thursday, September 15th, 2022, all locks and lift bridges on the NYS Canal System will operate daily between 7 am and 5 pm. The system is scheduled to close to navigation at 5 pm on Wednesday, October 12th, 2022. [Read more…] about NYS Canal System Announces Fall Hours of Operation

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Mohawk Valley, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Cayuga-Seneca Canal, Champlain Canal, Chenango Canal, D&H Canal, Erie Canal, Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor

The Upper Delaware’s First Suspension Bridge

July 18, 2021 by John Conway 1 Comment

Barryville-Shohola Suspension BridgeJohn A. Roebling was born in Prussia on June 12th, 1806. Educated as an engineer, but finding the political unrest in his home country stifling, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1831 with a small group intent on establishing a community where technology could freely advance. They settled in Western Pennsylvania, establishing the community of Saxonburg. [Read more…] about The Upper Delaware’s First Suspension Bridge

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Delaware River, Engineering History, Sullivan County, Transportation History

One Not-So-Benign Influence Of The D&H Canal

January 26, 2021 by John Conway 5 Comments

canal boats unloading their coal at RondoutThe positive impacts of the Delaware & Hudson Canal on Sullivan County were indisputable. With its opening in 1828, the 108-mile-long waterway made it possible for the first time to easily transport goods in and out of the area, and directly led to the growth of the tanning and bluestone industries. Entire communities, such as Barryville, Wurtsboro and Phillipsport, owe their very existence to the D & H, and while the canal was in operation, each was among the largest communities in the county in terms of commerce and population. [Read more…] about One Not-So-Benign Influence Of The D&H Canal

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Western NY Tagged With: D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Medical History, Public Health, Sullivan County, Transportation History

Sullivan County D&H Canal History Highlighted With ‘Kate Project’

December 23, 2020 by John Conway Leave a Comment

OntheTowpathDuring the month of December in 1824, brothers William and Maurice Wurts were diligently planning a presentation to potential investors in their ambitious project to build a canal connecting their coal fields in northeastern Pennsylvania to the Hudson River. [Read more…] about Sullivan County D&H Canal History Highlighted With ‘Kate Project’

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Hudson River, Industrial History, New York City, Sullivan County, Transportation History, womens history

Grants for Historic Markers Celebrating Canals Available

September 10, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Locktender's House in JordanThe next grant round of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation’s Historic Transportation Canal Marker Grant Program is now open.

This roadside marker program commemorates the historical significance of transportation canals in the United States. Grants cover the entire cost of a cast aluminum marker, pole and shipping. [Read more…] about Grants for Historic Markers Celebrating Canals Available

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Cayuga-Seneca Canal, Champlain Canal, Chenango Canal, D&H Canal, Erie Canal, Grants, Lake Champlain Canal, Oswego Canal, Transportation, Transportation History, William Pomeroy Foundation

Grants Available for Canal History Markers

September 16, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

D&H Canal marker provided by Pomeroy FoundationThe William G. Pomeroy Foundation has officially opened a new grant round of its Historic Transportation Canals Marker Grant Program. This historic marker program commemorates the history of canals across the U.S. Grants cover the entire cost of a marker, pole and shipping.

The Pomeroy Foundation is a private, grant-making foundation based in Syracuse. One of its main initiatives is to help people celebrate their community’s history through a variety of roadside marker grant programs, including its historic transportation canals program. [Read more…] about Grants Available for Canal History Markers

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: Cayuga-Seneca Canal, Champlain Canal, Chenango Canal, D&H Canal, Erie Canal, Grants, Historic Preservation, Oswego Canal, William Pomeroy Foundation

Great Rivals: Lehigh Navigation and the D&H Canal

August 14, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Lehigh Coal Cos open pit Summit Hill mine on Mauch Chunk Mountain

The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, the great rival to the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, was built a few years before the completion of the D&H and carried a significant amount of anthracite coal to the tide-waters of the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.

[Read more…] about Great Rivals: Lehigh Navigation and the D&H Canal

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Canal, Delaware River, Geology, Hudson River, Lehigh Coal, Neversink Valley Museum, Transportation History

Rondout National Historic District: A Walking Tour

July 2, 2015 by Olivia Twine 1 Comment

Church steeple with Mary Power steamship weathervane, seen from President's Place.A walking tour of The Rondout-West Strand National Historic District in Kingston, sponsored monthly by Friends of Historic Kingston, contrasts the results of a heartbreaking 1960’s urban renewal project with the gentrification that followed in an area that escaped the wrecking ball.

After the entire east side of Lower Broadway was demolished in 1967 vintage 19th century buildings on the opposite side stood empty, awaiting what seemed their inevitable fate. Luckily, federal funding ran out and what is today the Rondout – West Strand National Historic District was spared. New structures were built part-way up the east side of the hill. The restored neighborhood brings to my mind the painful image of a one-winged bird. [Read more…] about Rondout National Historic District: A Walking Tour

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Cultural History, D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Historic Preservation, Hudson River, Industrial History, Kingston, Maritime History, NY, Transportation, Ulster County

Delaware & Hudson History On The Historians Podcast

January 30, 2015 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week “The Historians” podcast features an interview with Jim Bachorz, publisher of the Bridge Line Historical Society Bulletin, an extensive monthly newsletter that focuses on Delaware & Hudson Railroad (D&H) history and other rail topics. The D&H called itself the Bridge Line linking New York, New England and Canada. Today the railroad is a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway. Listen at “The Historians” online archive at http://www.bobcudmore.com/thehistorians/
[Read more…] about Delaware & Hudson History On The Historians Podcast

Filed Under: History Tagged With: D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Industrial History, Labor History, Podcasts, The Historians, Transportation

Roebling’s Wire Rope Modernized The D & H Canal

June 10, 2014 by John Conway 2 Comments

John A. RoeblingJohn Augustus Roebling celebrated two milestones in June of 1849, his 43rd birthday and the beginning of construction of the Neversink Aqueduct on the Delaware & Hudson Canal. It was the third of the four aqueducts he would design and build for the canal company, and followed the completion of the Delaware and Lackawaxen Aqueducts the previous year.

Roebling (his given name was actually Johann August) was born in Muhlhausen, in Prussia, on June 12, 1806, the youngest son of Christoph Polycarpa Roebling and Fredericke Dorothea Mueller Roebling. He grew up in a world of private tutors, learned the music of Bach and the poetry of Goethe, and according to some sources, built a model of a suspension bridge when he was nine years old that bore a striking resemblance to what would be his most famous work, the Brooklyn Bridge. He gained admission to the prestigious engineering program at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Berlin, where he studied languages and philosophy as well as architecture, bridge construction and hydraulics. He graduated in 1826, and went to work for the state, as was the requirement at that time, serving three years building roads in Westphalia. [Read more…] about Roebling’s Wire Rope Modernized The D & H Canal

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Brooklyn Bridge, D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Delaware River, Industrial History, Maritime History, Neversink River, Sullivan County, Transportation, Ulster County

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