Navigational Canals of the Connecticut River

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.

	canal	LINK	location	starts	ends	length	falls feet	locks
1	Enfield Falls Canal	LINK	Connecticut	1829	1970s	5.25 miles	30	4
2	South Hadley Canal	LINK	Massachusetts	1794	1862	2.5 miles	58	10
3	Turners Falls Canal	LINK	Massachusetts	1798	1856	3 miles	55	10
4	Bellows Falls Canal	LINK	Vermont	1802	1858	0.5 miles	52	9
5	Sumners Falls Canal	LINK	Hartland Vermont		1856	feet	12	2
6	Olcott Falls Canal	LINK	Wilder Vermont and New Hampshire	1810		feet	40	5