Lock #19: (Satellite)
Guard Lock: (Satellite)
The Original Erie Canal cross Schoharie Creek by using a dam to create a pool that raised the river to the canal's level.
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| ErieCanal |
This map shows the paths of the Original (red), Enlarged (yellow) and Barge (green) Canals. The dam would have been downstream of the red line. The Enlarged Erie Canal used an aqueduct to cross the creek. When the Enlarged Canal opened in 1841, the Original Canal west of the creek was abandoned. But the dam and the Original Canal to the east was retained as a feeder canal for the Enlarged Canal. That is why we now see remnants of the Original Canal on the east side but nothing on the west side.
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| Google Earth, Sep 2020 plus Paint |
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| Bob Baxter, Jul 2021 |
Joel Torres posted two photos with the comment:
"The East Guard Lock" at Schoharie Crossing in Fort Hunter, N.Y.
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This view confirms that I found the correct location for the guard lock.
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| Street View, Jul 2019 |
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