On Saturday, July 21, 2007 06:06, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> It's only been two weeks since I
> discovered the prior existence of the Chenango Canal which ran 97 miles
> from Binghamton, New York in the south to Utica, New York in the
> north. Although I had lived near Binghamton from 1965 to 1971 I had
> never heard of the Chenango Canal. The canal connected the Binghamton
> area and the Pennsylvania coal fields to the south with the Erie Canal
> which ran from Buffalo to New York City. But it was already out of
> business and abandoned by 1877.
>
While I knew of it's existence I only knew it ran through the Chenango Valley
(Norwich area) but that was all. While large pieces of the old Erie canal
still exist in central NY I couldn't drive to a single piece of Chenango
canal without doing some research. There were or are also Champlain, Oswego
and the Cayuga and Seneca canals which connected the various large lakes in
NY state to the Erie canal along with the Black river canal which was used as
a water feeder to the Erie and later the Barge (now Erie) Canal.
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