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Bellows Falls Canal -- Here first Canal in United States was built in 1802

Bellows Falls Canal -- Here first Canal in United States was built in 1802 is a Vermont historical marker in Bellows Falls, Windham County.

Bridge Street at the Connecticut River, Bellows Falls

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Here first Canal in United States was built in 1802. The British-owned Company, which was chartered to render the Connecticut River navigable here in 1791, was 10 years building the 9 locks and dam around the Great Falls, 52 ft. high. After the railroad came in 1849, river traffic declined and the canal was used for water power only.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1794 · New York. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · State of New Hampshire. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1804 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Vermont, 1795, covering the location of Bellows Falls Canal -- Here first Canal in United States was built in 1802, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Vermont, 1795, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

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