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The AMERICAN CANAL SOCIETY

 

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

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                                            New York                               March, 2005

 

NEW YORK CANALS

Auburn - Owasco Outlet
Black River Canal
Black Rock Canal
Cayuga Seneca Canal
Champlain Canal
Chemung Canal
Chenango Canal
Chenango Extension Canal
Cohoes Power Canal system
Crooked Lake Canal
Delaware & Hudson Canal
Erie Canal
Genesee Valley Canal
Glens Falls Feeder Canal
Gowanus Canal
Jefferson County
Junction Canal (NY & PA)
Junction Canal (Cohoes)
Kings Power Canal
Long Island Intracoastal Waterway
New York & Sharon
Oneida Lake Canals
Oswego Canal
Shinnecock Canal
Saranac River Navigation
Wiley - Dondero Canal

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Boltzman, Harvey, Erie Canal Bicyclist and Hiker Route Guide, 2nd Edition, Cyclotour Guide Books, Rochester, NY, 1999, 272 pages, ISBN 1-889602-21-3

Harlow, Alvin F., Old Towpaths, D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY, 1926, 403 pages

Larkin, F. Daniel, New York State Canals, A Short History, Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 1998, 104 pages, ISBN 0-935796-90-8

Leroy, Edward; The Delaware and Hudson Canal; Wayne County Historical Society, Honesdale, PA 1980, 95 pages

Lowenthal, Larry: From the Coalfields to the Hudson; Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 1997, 298 pages, ISBN 0-935796-85-1

McFee, Michele A., A Long Haul, The Story of the New York State Barge Canal, Purple Mountain Press, Fleishmanns, NY, 1998, 221 pages, ISBN 0-935796-99-1

McFee, Michele A., Limestone Locks and Overgrowth, The Rise and Descent of the Chenango Canal, Purple Mountain Press, Fleishmanns, NY, 1993, 240 pages, ISBN 0-935796-44-4

McKelvey, William J., Jr., Champlain to Chesapeake, A Canal Era Pictorial Cruise, Canal Press Inc., Exton, PA, 1978, 224 pages, ISBN 0-916838-19-6

Osterberg, Matthew M., The Delaware & Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2002, 128 pages, ISBN 0-7385-1078-4

Riley, Michael, Twelve and a Half Miles, The Erie Canal in Cayuga County, Port Byron, NY, 2002, 111 pages

Sanderson, Dorothy; The Delaware and Hudson Canalway; The Rondout Valley Publishing Company, Ellenville, NY 1965, 1974, 278 pages   (currently out of print, but available used)

Shaughnessy, James; Delaware and Hudson (railroad), Howell – North Books, Berkeley, CA, 1967, 476 pages

Sheriff, Carol; The Artifical River, The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress 1817-1862, Hill and Wang,1996, 251 pages ISBN 0-8090-2753-4

Stack, Debbie Daino and Marquisee, Capatain Ronald S., The ErieCanal, Media Artists, Manlius, NY, 2001, 208 pages, ISBN 0-9708886-0-0

Thomas, Howard, Black River in the North Country, North Country Books, Utica, NY, 1985, 213 pages,  ISBN 0-932042-49-5

Wakefield, Manville; Coal Boats to Tidewater; Wakefair Press, Grahamsville, NY, 1965, 1971, 222 pages

Whitford, Noble E., History of the Canal System of the State of New York, Brandow Printing Company, Albany, NY, 1906, 1527 pages

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Revised 3/13/05