A Bicentennial Inventory of America's Historic Canal Resources
Published by the American Canal Society, 117 Main St., Freemansburg, PA 18017
DRAFT                                                       New England                                     February, 2005

HISTORIC CANALS OF NEW ENGLAND

by Bill Gerber

STATE/Canal Name	ACS Index Sheet?	Best of American Canals # - page	Other Sources of Information (List)
CONNECTICUT
Enfield (Windsor Locks)	x
Howes Folly	x
New Haven & Northampton	x	#2-13, #3-7/8, #4-7
(Farmington (CT), Hampshire   & Hampden (MA))
Shelton		#2-30
RHODE ISLAND
Blackstone	x	#1-15, #3-3
Mouscochuck	x
MASSACHUSETTS
Cambridge Canals
Broad Canal
Lechmere Canal
Portland Canal
South Canal
Cut River	x	#3-3	Yankee 3/66
Jeremiah's Gutter			Orleans History
South Hadley Falls (Inclined Plane)	x	#1-8, #4-27	South Hadley HS pamphlet
Merrimack River
Wickassee			Lawrence.
Pawtucket	x	#1-11
Lawrence, North Canal
Middlesex	x	#3-5/6, #4-7, #5-17	Lawrence, Brown, Clark, MCA,
			Lawson, Hoxie, Roberts, VerPlanck
Mill Creek Canal (Boston)
Roxbury
Mother Brook
Hampshire & Hampden (Farmington)	x	#2-14....
Blackstone	x	#1-15, #3-3	Barber
Wankinco River	x
Fox Creek	x	#1-11
Industrial Canals of Lowell	x	#1-11, #3-14, #4-6
Industrial Canals of Lawrence
Blynman			NOS Chart
Cape Cod		#3-13	NOS Chart, CE bro
Charles River	x		Visitor's Center
Mystic River (Amelia Earhart Locks)	x
Turners Falls
VERMONT
Bellows Falls		#3-4
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Merrimack River
Sewall's Falls (Above Concord) (Later site of power dam, now breached)	No		Roberts
Bow (Garvin's Falls) (now power dam)	x		Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Hookset (now power dam)			Lawrence, Mower, Gerber, Repair survey
Amoskeag (Blodgets)	x	#2-12..	Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Merrills Falls (at Granite St. bridge)			Lawrence, Mower, Gerber, Plot plan
Griffin's Falls			Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Short's Falls (at I-293 bridge)	x		Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Goff's Falls (at RR bridge)			Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Cohas Falls (Coos Falls)	x		Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Moor's Falls			Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Cromwells Falls	x	#2-29	Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Nashua Boat Company Canal (Nashua Mfg. Co)	x		Lawrence, Mower, Gerber
Mine Falls Power Canal			NHS brochure, Plot plan
Industrial Canals of Manchester			Plot plan
Industrial Canals of Concord
MAINE
Knox & Georges River	x	#1-16	Anderson.
New Meadow's (Peterson's)		#2-11	Anderson, 1911 News
Mousam River Channels			Anderson.
Saco River
Moose			Anderson.
Hancock			Anderson.
Burnt Meadow			Anderson.
Ten Mile			Anderson.
Freyburg			Anderson.
Cumberland & Oxford	x	#1-12, #4-22	Anderson.
Kennebec River
Seeboomook			Anderson.
Augusta			Anderson.
Piscataquis			Anderson.
Passamaquoddy	x
Telos	x		Anderson.
Stillwater			Anderson.
Penobscot			Anderson.

Note: Articles noted as appearing in Best of American Canals also appeared in American Canals

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Clarke, Mary Stetson, The Old Middlesex  Canal, Center for Canal History and Technology, Easton, PA , 1974, 194 pages, ISBN 0-930973-06-2

Farson, Robert H., The Cape Cod Canal, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1977, 177 pages, ISBN 0-8195-5012-4 and 0-8195-6050-2 pbk.

Lewis, Edward A., The Blackstone Valley Line, The Baggage Car, Seekonk, MA, 1973, 80 pages

Lawrence, Lewis M., The Middlesex Canal, a 1942 manuscript of 148 pages printed in 1999 by the Middlesex Canal Association

Roberts, Christopher, The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1860, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1938, 252 pages (available as a reprint from University Microfilms)

Seaberg, Carl, Alan Seaberg, Thomas Dahill, The Incredible Ditch, Anne Miniver Press,1997,138 pages, ISBN 0-9625794-8-3

VerPlanck, Burt, Middlesex Canal, Guide and Maps, Middlesex Canal Association, Billerica, MA, 1996

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Revised 2/11/05