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Chittenango Landing
Courtesy of Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum
Marker detail: Working at the Merrell-Soule Cannery (1907)
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| | The canal increased industry productivity. It quickly brought raw materials and workers to factories, and made shipping faster and cheaper than transporting over land. Some structures of the canal were even specially designed for multiple uses to . . . — — Map (db m144326) HM |
| | In the late 1800s the boatyard across from you was full of boats, shops, people, horses and mules. The heart of the complex was the three-bay dry dock where canal boats were repaired. New boats were built on the ground next to the dry docks. . . . — — Map (db m144327) HM |
| | The high ground from Syracuse to Rome, known as the Rome Summit Level, was the first completed section of the canal. Water does not naturally fill this section because of its elevation, but the canal needed to be full to be open. Construction of . . . — — Map (db m144328) HM |
| | When a canal boat needed repairs, the captain went to the nearest dry dock. A dry dock was a basin or bay that could be flooded to get a boat in, and then drained so that the boat could be repaired. Along the canal, at least 44 different dry docks . . . — — Map (db m144329) HM |
May. 9, 2024
