New Discoveries at the Roebling D&H Canal Lackawaxen Aqueduct
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2023
- In November of 2022, D&H Canal historian Bill Merchant was joined by architect and John Roebling scholar, Professor Paul King in investigating John Roebling's aqueduct over the Lackawaxen River. They were there to examine anew feature only recently made visible by low water but while there made another discovery!
Back in the summer of 1988, I worked on an NPS HABS/HAER project documenting both the Roebling Delaware Aqueduct and the nearby Zane Grey House. Prior to the Lackawaxen and Delaware Aqueducts, there were two canal locks on either side of the Delaware River by the confluence of the Lackawaxen. The canal barges hauling coal from Honesdale dropped down on the west bank and crossed on the Delaware River and then were raised back up to the canal on east Delaware bank. As I recall, prior to the aqueducts, there was a lot of expensive litigation between the D&H Canal and lumber companies floating logs down the Delaware. The aqueducts eliminated the legal conflicts as well as the delay of the two locks.
Awesome finds.
Exciting stuff! So fun to get a verbal preview of this from you last Saturday at the museum, and then more fun to see it posted! Thank you!
Great video!
Fabulous video! So cool to see that more remnants of the abutments and foundations remain in place than was previously thought. The four Roebling canal aqueducts were state of the art engineering marvels in their day and remain priceless (to me and many others) historical artifacts of the engineering and construction marvels that constituted the Delaware and Hudson Canal.
Interesting!
Thank you for sharing.😊
VERY COOL ! Thank you gentlemen!
Robert Vogel of Smithsonian paper on ROEBLING Aqueducts. Hi-Res pdf download; repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/2409/SSHT-0010_Lo_res.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Fascinating. Wish I could have joined you to see it all in person. Next best thing: This video. Thank you, both.
I used to jump off that into the river when I was a kid
Very cool local history. 👍👍👍
Great job finding those artifacts, presenting and production the video guys!
Great Job Bill, can't wait to see you guys in August (DePuy/Brodhead Family Association)
Let us know when!
Actually I will be up that way for the entire month of August. James and Barbara are coming over from Washington State around the 13th, we'll get up with ya around that time frame. Kevin
Awesome I've drove the fun length 108 miles a few times there's many spots still intact
So koool. As kids we would go when they let the dam out and we would jump into the pool below. All the while never really knowing the true history of this site. 🙌🏼🙌🏼
I grew up on the Texas Gulf coast so we weren't taught much about the canals that were so important to the development of the hinterlands west of NYC. Did I miss the geographical clues? In my recent follow-alongs of the Original Erie, the Upgraded Erie and the Black River canals Google has the route of the abandoned canals marked. The NY portion of the D&H is marked. But not the Penn portion. I couldn't determine on the map exactly where this civil engineering artifact is. Google often puts a rook-like symbol to mark such things. Did I just miss it? Or should Google be advised of a historical update to their database?
We have a Google map of the entire D&H Canal linked at www.canalmuseum.org