
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 |
