In summers long ago my Dad took us up in the Washingtons
Crossing area of the Delaware Canal and we went canoeing and
went on Paddle Boats. Some Burg folks and Trenton
area folks did this too. It was fun. In summers long ago:)
5 years ago
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Mack, you got me to answer a question about the Delaware & Raritan canal that has been gnawing at me for years. Where did it empty? It starts the 60 some mile journey as a feeder at Bulls Island and becomes the main canal at Lambertville, hand dug by the Irish starting in 1830 to get coal to New York City. With the construction of the Trenton Freeway (1953?), it went underground at Southard and emerged at the Salvation Army on Mulberry. I canoed most stretches of the canal over the years but my first adventure was at 12 from "The Sal" to Princeton and back. It follows Carnegie Lake till the dam at Kingston where it follows the Millstone River past Manville and finally at a waterfall, it empties into the Raritan at George Street and the Route 18 bridge. You can't see these last miles from the road hence the mystery.
Part of that path it follows was once that of the Millstone River that emptied to the Delaware at Duck Island a scant million or so years ago :)
Skip
Hi Skip:)
You pose interesting questions here.
AND There is also a canal on the Pennsy side:))
Great fishing spots too.
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