Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002:
21 October 02 |
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One
of our favorite destinations is the Erie Canal,
which originally began in downtown Buffalo, and
later when the canal was widened and renamed the
Erie Canal Barge Canal, the canal began, and still
begins, at North Tonawanda on the Niagara River
where Tonawanda Creek empties into the river.
We have biked in five-mile bites from Lockport
to Brockport, and we've rowed a time or two, too. |
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We
visit abandoned Genesee Valley Canal locks
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We're
finally seeing some significant fall color.
Through the colorful leaves, you can see part
of a lock wall of the abandoned Genesee Valley
Canal.
Click
here to see more pix
of the locks
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21
Oct. 02: We took a ride down to Letchworth State Park
to admire the turning leaves, and I also wanted to take
pictures of a series of abandoned locks that I had seen
a few years ago when we were driving from Nunda to Portageville
at the southern foot of the park. We drove around and
around before finding the locks, but the search was worth
it. The locks are on State Route 436 about two miles west
of Nunda. We walked from the foot the head of the
series of seven locks on what was once known as the Genesee
Valley Canal. This canal branched from the Erie Canal
in downtown Rochester and went as far as Olean, in the
Southern Tier, about 60 miles away. The locks that we
saw are 10 feet wide and about 15 feet deep, and 100 feet
long. The dry-laid quarry stone that was used for the
lock sides is largely intact. There are even a few shred
of the timbers that were used in the locks, too. |
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