Black River Canal

An abandoned four-flight lock on the Black River Canal in Lewis County, New York.

The Black River Canal was a canal built in northern New York in the USA to connect the Erie Canal to the Black River.

The canal was about thirty-five miles long and rose almost 700 feet. This short canal required 109 locks to raise or lower the barges in this relatively short distance. The summit of the Black River Canal was near Boonville in Oneida County and the northern end was at Lyons Falls in Lewis County. The Black River Canal roughly follows State Route 46 south to Rome, NY where it meets the Erie Canal. Black River Boulevard in Rome is built on top of the old canal.

This canal was the longest-surviving of the Erie Canal's feeder canal system, remaining in use in some segments until c. 1920. By 1925, the canal was declared an abandoned waterway.

See also

• List of canals in New York

External links

• Canal chronology
• Canal history

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