Navigational Canals of the Connecticut River

My modifications on a US Fish and Wildlife Service map.

The navigational canals of the Connecticut River were made to allow transport of goods from Long Island Sound to upper Vermont without portage. At the end of the canal days, one could go from Old Saybrook Connecticut to the Wells River in Vermont 280 miles upstream. This was a difference in elevation of 500 feet.

canalLINKlocationstartsendslengthfalls feetlocks
1Enfield Falls CanalLINKConnecticut18291970s5.25 miles304
2South Hadley CanalLINKMassachusetts179418622.5 miles5810
3Turners Falls CanalLINKMassachusetts179818563 miles5510
4Bellows Falls CanalLINKVermont180218580.5 miles529
5Sumners Falls CanalLINKHartland Vermont1856feet122
6Olcott Falls CanalLINKWilder Vermont and New Hampshire1810feet405

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