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Post by minoltaman on Nov 6, 2008 14:36:37 GMT -5
High Falls, NY. Approx 110 miles north of NYC on the edge of the Catskill Mountain range. Nikon F100, Fuji Provia 100F film, f/8 @ 1/10, camera placed on a rock and held secure for the slow shutter speed. From the D&H Canal Museum website, www.canalmuseum.org/history.htmThe Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 108-mile, man-made waterway, an engineering feat of pre-industrial America that brought a new form of energy from the hills of Pennsylvania out to the Hudson River. From 1828 to 1898, mules pulled barges laden with anthracite coal along river valleys from Honesdale in northeastern Pennsylvania to Eddyville on the Rondout Creek near the villages of Kingston and Rondout. From here, it was shipped on barges down the Hudson to New York City and up the river to Canada.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Nov 6, 2008 20:27:19 GMT -5
Very cool Tommy. I always find man made waterways fascinating. Amazing engineering and hard work went into creating these.
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Post by mickeyobe on Nov 7, 2008 1:15:53 GMT -5
Tommy,
I like the colours of those stone walls. Old canals and locks are marvels of engineering. Many of them are still used today for tourism rather than commerce.
Mickey
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Post by Randy on Nov 7, 2008 23:07:15 GMT -5
Ah...the Delaware & Hudson Canal. Very nice.
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Post by minoltaman on Nov 13, 2008 10:18:30 GMT -5
Thank you Curt, Mickey and Randy, yes, I love these old canals and still marvel at the engineering that went in to making them. There are other old locks of the D&H Canal that one can access and when I get back to upstate NY again I want to check some of them out. Lock 16 here is probably the best preserved one though.
The D&H museum is right around the corner from this picture. Right beside this canal there is an 18th Century stone house that is now a restaurant. Lovely building. I didn't get a picture because of the late time of day....I was unable to get its "good side" and couldn't get back there the next day. Maybe next time....
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