Old Feeder Canal

New Castle County · dedicated 1932 · 2905 Pulaski Highway, Newark

Excavations begun May 2, 1804, in first attempt to build a canal between Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Feeder was intended to conduct water from Elk Creek to a ship canal to extend from Welsh Point on Elk to Mendenhall’s Landing on Christiana. Work abandoned 1805.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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