LOST Canals of New Jersey - The Story of Morris & Delaware and Raritan Canals - IT'S HISTORY

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The Morris Canal and the later Delaware and Raritan Canal both contributed greatly to New Jersey’s economic advancements and the development of many smaller settlements. As two key pieces in the transportation industry, they served to connect the two states together and each boasted several unique qualities not found in any other canals of their time. However, after being closed down in the early 20th century, much of the rich history that surrounds them both has been largely forgotten and their achievements and accolades lost to the modern time. What could have caused such feats of 19th century engineering to become so obsolete? This is the story of New Jersey's lost canals, ( Morris canal & Delaware and Raritan canal ). These canals were once a magnificent feet of 19th century engineering and today have been lost to time. Does the Morris Canal still exist?
INDEX:
0:00 - The Canal Systems of New Jersey
1:03 - How was Coal transported in the 19th Century?
2:21 - Planning the Morris canal
3:19 - Construction of the Morris canal
4:12 - How long was the Morris Canal?
4:45 - What type of boats used the Morris Canal?
5:53 - Delaware and Raritan canal
6:58 - Construction of the Delaware and Raritan canal
10:17 - The downfall of New Jerseys canals. What happened to the Morris Canal?
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@thejerseyj9422 2 года назад

The Morris canal went underground when it reached downtown Newark. The hill leading downtown on today's Raymond Boulevard was a ramp that the canal boats would go down on rails. When it reached near Broad Street the boats would reenter the canal which was run underground through downtown. Part of the Newark city subway was built using the the old canal tunnels.

@577buttfan 4 месяца назад

Thats too damn cool!

@warrenwilson4818 2 года назад

Great job. I grew up along the canal between Zarephath and Bound Brook in the 1950s. This was long before any restoration projects that have been so successful. We had a swimming hole where a spring-fed creek went under the canal. My best remembrance? One winter they had lowered the water level for some reason. It was very cold, but with no snow, we were enabled to skate all the way to Trenton with about five feet of headroom under the bridges. Never happened again.

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

That is so cool! I grew up in Monmouth Co. & skated on ponds every winter as a kid all thru the 70's. Moved to PA & always wondered if the canal here in Bucks ever froze enough to skate on?

@CliffRoth 2 года назад

Growing up in Hopatcong I had to chuckle every time I heard you pronounce it. I think you reversed the ‘a’ and the ‘t’. Love the video, thanks for making it.

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

You took a kind approach to this issue - so I'll offer you full transparency. I'm a dyslexic, I always avoided reading aloud growing up, and I was totally illiterate until about 15 years old. I was actually put into a special class for "learning disabled" people, and at that point we didn't do any reading at all, it was more about defence from bully's (fighting). Anyhow, all these years later my reading aloud leaves something to be desired and I am still called nasty names on account of it - just now its online by adults instead of kids:) Being a strong reader seems like an obvious thing to most people - but if you had a poor education it will always be apparent. I did a Ted talk about this some years back ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GNcJcOdQdLI.html

@donjohnson9688 2 года назад

Your presentation was great. It sounded perfect to me.

@glencoppola813 2 года назад

@@ITSHISTORY no one outside of NJ can pronounce the Native American names of towns in NJ.

@blacksteveman 2 года назад

@@glencoppola813 Agreed, one of my favorite things to do to family that visits is make them pronounce town names as we drive around.

@DallasD_ 2 года назад

@@ITSHISTORY Nice to hear your story, its great when you see someones true personality and perserverance finally able to shine through, i relate to this yearning. Im from NJ also, its a shame these canals are not all still mainly intact for leisure, but of course its never thought of in the moment, only years later when its too late. Im looking for reconizable places in your videos and will be driving past them later, im in Essex county, next to Little Falls in which the Mooris Canal went through, thanks for creating this, very interesing for me to see what once was and know the forgotten history, in which the people that live here and drive past every day and have zero clue about. looking fwd to rest of this video, took a pause to read the comments, You can say if you like: Ho-pat-kong 😊

@Cha-y412 2 года назад

The Morris Canal cut right through Bloomfield NJ . A good section of the Canal is now sections of the Garden State Parkway . The Canal was long gone by the time I was born in the late 1950s. There is an incline plane that is now John F Kennedy Dr. When I was a kid in the 60s the steam powered windless was still at the top of the incline plane. There still stands an abandoned railroad bridge on Kennedy Dr & Beach St that crossed over the canal. Older neighbors would tell stories of ice skating on the canal in the Winter Months. It is obvious that the Canal provided Bloomfield NJ with commerce and an economic boom in the 19th Century Pretty cool stuff.

@dariusmensah8004 2 года назад

Rick, I grew up in East Orange near the Bloomfield city line. I remember learning about the canal’s local footprint too - the Parkway, the Watsessing creek, etc. The path of the Newark City Subway also owes a lot to the Morris Canal.

@Cha-y412 2 года назад

@@dariusmensah8004 Great times and a cool place to grow up

@samanthab1923 5 месяцев назад

I grew up in Monmouth Co. & had no idea about any towns or history in western part of the state. Would up moving to New Hope in 94 & the canal was still filled. People did ice skate on it back then ❄️

@llyfr 2 года назад

I grew up in Denville, which has part of the Morris Canal running through it and a historic store/lock area that has gone through several rebirths as a store and restaurant. I used to walk the canal route as a kid, and was always amazed that our little town had been part of something so big and important. Thanks for covering this!

@RJMay3 2 года назад

Family lived on Indian Lake.

@jaxsally 2 года назад

Grew up in a neighborhood near Morris Catholic and I’ll always remember the canal, which wasn’t too far away.

@kevinbranch9341 6 месяцев назад

Grew up in Boonton No the canal boat shelter are still there by the Indian rock there’s a cable ring at the top of that rock and basins we swam there in the summer in the pot hole those from Boonton know what I’m referring to great info great memories Thanks BHS 1974 Grad

@LolGetAJob 2 месяца назад

I grew up in denville too and i know exactly where youre talking about

@patrickmcneilly4293 2 года назад

HOLY CRAP A MORRIS CANAL VIDEO! I’ve been looking for one of these forever. Without the canal, most of Northern Jersey wouldn’t be here. Thank you for sharing the story of the canal.

@Skyhors3 2 года назад

I grew up at Lake Hopatcong, used to shortcut across the dam almost daily (not supposed to). Used to walk the towpath to Landing, couple times a week. Once I rode my motorcycle down the towpath from Stanhope, far, until I thought I might run out of gas. I'm more interested in the history of the Lenape, but couldn't help knowing about the canal.

@dweis217 2 года назад

An old ancestor of mine was a boat captain on the Raritan Canal. Great to see it's getting some love

@JimTheFly 2 года назад

If you're gonna be talking about old New Jersey stuff, I'd love a video about the Jersey Central Railroad. My dad used to be Supervisor of Passenger Stations for it and had an office at the terminal that's now part of Liberty State Park. He passed away about 30 years ago when I was young so I never really got to properly appreciate it while he was still around.

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

Yes, there will be MANY more videos about NJ because its probably my favourite state - your father and my grandfather may have crossed paths because he was also in the area 30 years ago.

@elmiguel6725 2 года назад

Bet your dad had some good stories Jim.

@dr.floridaman4805 2 года назад

I faked my death to get away from snot nosed children as well. Best three time decision I will make again. Soon.

@waynejones205 2 года назад

The Big Little Railroad! Awesome, but get ready for a nine or ten-part episode. :) I live not a mile from remnants of the D&R next to Bound Brook.

@JerseyMiller 2 года назад

If your going to be talking about old new Jersey stuff, I'd love a video about my old battle axe of a wife.

@robertt.1808 2 года назад

I liked the video - just a couple of corrections. It was George P. Macculloch who came up with the idea for the Morris Canal, not George P. Makdaloc. Also, the main source of water for the Morris Canal was Lake Hopatcong (created from two smaller lakes), not Lake Hapticon.

@alanthefisher 2 года назад

Great video, another thing to mention is that the D&R canal practically built New Brunswick, NJ into the small city it is today. Because of the NorthEast Corridor and the D&R canal New Brunswick became known as Hub City.

@mariannelynnlatjow5641 2 года назад

My first born son was born at St Peter's Medical Center. At the time I lived in Carteret

@patsfan8057 2 года назад

I lived in Carteret also. From 1958 until 1970. Last visited in1987, it sure changed, even more so now I'll bet.

@mariannelynnlatjow5641 2 года назад

@@patsfan8057 did you know the Evelich Family?

@patsfan8057 2 года назад

@@mariannelynnlatjow5641 The name sounds familiar, I was a child/young teen at the time, left when I was in 7th grade

@michael7324 2 года назад

@@mariannelynnlatjow5641 So was I...

@gangsterbroccoli 2 года назад

I wish schools would teach stuff like this

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

Agree; they only teach anti-American bigotry .

@liesgaming6724 2 года назад

Facts i live in jersey nd we dont learn anything about our city more like philly etc

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

They should. Our area of NJ growing up was filled with old houses, cemeteries & tons of history. But it was the school Liberian that told the best story. I was in 4th grade at Broad St school in Matawan NJ she knew one of the survivors of the 1916 Shark Attacks. He was still alive, this was the 60's, & had a scar across his stomach from where the great white grazed him.

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

@@samanthab1923 My Aunt & Uncle ; Betty & James Gallagher moved into Matawan from Bayonne in 1962 into a new single family development. They both commuted by either car or train back to Bayonne for their jobs, she was a teacher & he worked for Dow Chemical. Their children, my adult cousins live further South in N.J. .

@beckyblack2333 2 года назад

As long as the emphasis in schools is on STEM we will keep losing time and money to be spent on studying and teaching history.

@CirsiumDan 2 года назад

I live right on the banks of the D&R canal and it’s great to see coverage on it. Used to walk and ride my bike up and down it every day when i was a kid, all the way from New Brunswick to Princeton. Beautiful canal, a lot of parts are still really well preserved

@josieeee8 2 года назад

Every summer Wharton has a “canal” day with kayaking, music, crafts, etc. It’s right on the canal and it looks like they are working on restoring some of it

@dennisfox2340 2 года назад

I went to New Jersey for the first due to a Deployment with FEMA immediately after Hurricane Sandy, My 2 Month deployment there gave me a great appreciation of not only the State, but more so, THE PEOPLE! I was all over from Inner-Cities, Farm country, Coastal towns, the Pine Barrens and so much more. A lot of proud & inspiring folks! Your video gave me yet another dimension, Thanks !!

@darklordboehm428 2 года назад

There are all awesome hiking trails next to these canals. Goes for miles and great for walks or bikes

@njlauren 2 года назад

If you want to see a small stretch of the Morris Canal Waterloo Village is a great place to go, it is literally right off rt 80 on rt 206 north. The canal segment is only a couple of hundred yards long but you can also see the remains of one of the incline planes there ( sadly you can't hike it, the old towbridge across the Muscanetcong River was destroyed in a storm and nit rebuilt). What is also nice is the old buildings there from the canal days ago there is a canal museum. They have events there and on summer weekends they have walking tours. I only wish that has more money to preserve the old houses, some of them are in poor shape sadly. It is a gorgeous place to walk.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 2 года назад

What are those incline plane things?

@elmiguel6725 2 года назад

Thanks for the info Lauren

@njlauren 2 года назад

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music The Morris Canal faced a unique challenge, it had a large swing in elevation between its 2 terminal pints,Almost 1000 ft. On a canal this is normally handled by a series of locks ( chambers where you let in water to rise to next level or let it out to get lower level.) . They have drawbacks, they have limited rise/ fall in each lock, so to gain altitude you need a bunch of locks, locks use a lot of water and can de disastrous if someone leaves the doors open. On an incline plane ( usually built on the side of a hill) the canal boat would float onto a cradle , the cradle would be pulled up the incline plane via a cable. Often another boat would be going down the plane at the same time, acting as a counterweight helping pull the boat up the plane. The main power was provided by a turbine that was powered by water from the canal on the high end,water would flow down into a chamber,spin the turbine, which would through a set of gears drive the drum that the cable wraps around to pull up the boat ( known as a scotch turbine). The canal used locks as well, at Waterloo there was a lock that brought canal boats to.the level of the river,they went across the river and up the inclined plane.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 2 года назад

@@njlauren Wow; thank you so much. I had never heard of this and I'm not a young man. That's a lot of engineering for the time. These cradles had wheels on the bottom that could support the weight of a vessel?

@njlauren 2 года назад

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music They were on wooden rails, they used flanged wheels I believe, like a railroad wheel. Those boats weren'tight and later on they had ones with several sections. This was built between 1828 and 1833 or so. Britain built an incredibly huge canal network that still.exists, like 2500 miles, but the terrain the Morris Canal went over was incredibly difficult, it was clever engineering. One of the big problems was the canal was lined with clay to keep the water in, and they constantly had to repair it,pests like moles and ground hogs were constantly burrowing. The scotch turbines they used were amazing, too. Plus they had to build feeders to maintain the water, that wasn't easy.

@AndrewSmetana 2 года назад

I grew up on Princeton ave in Wharton NJ... the Morris canal was literally in my backyard we used to dig in it and find old bottles from the 1800's so cool to grow up on the canal... we made motocross trails to ride our motorcycles so much fun was had by all of the kids

@taylorstillman7932 Год назад

Grew up in Franklin Township and New Brunswick, had so many great times on the Tow-path of the Raritan canal. Fishing for catfish with my neighbor- who told me about the old the mines of New Brunswick (owned by Continental Congress members), riding bikes with dad down to Bound Brook & learning about the locks, to stories of my Grandpa swimming across the Raritan. We used to play on the banks in the after-school program at Rutgers Prep in the late 70's/early 80's. Such a great spot and so much cool history. New Jersey has so many cool stories to tell.

@michaelwhalen7991 2 года назад

I love NJ too. I was raised in Bordentown, Trenton, and lastly Princeton but my family history in NJ goes way back to my Great grandfather, who served on the Constitution "Old Ironsides" when it was a naval training ship on the Delaware at Philadelphia. Great grand pop was a seaman who ran away from home to serve in the Navy. Coming home with tales of many adventures, from seeing heads float down the Yansee river in China, as the opium addicts were being dealt with. To travels with Admiral Perry to Alaska after the U.S. purchased it from Russia. Back in Trenton Great granddad was present at the inauguration of the Trenton War memorial near Chambersburg. Story goes as the flag was being taken off the statue at its top, it got hung up. My great granddad being used to rigging and climbing aboard ships offered to climb to the top to remove the flag from Washington's statue Which the officials gladly accepted and let him free climb to the top. Being Irish and a proud first generation American, He was a bit of a drinker too, and once up there and flag removed, pulled out a flask and had a drink with old George as the folks below cheered. Leaving the bottle in George's tri corner hat ! My Grand father was present in the crowd below and was impressed with what his father did...to the point of remembering it his whole life, and in his senior years recounting the story to the Trenton Times newspaper. Who hired a helicopter in the 1960s, with Grandpops aboard to fly over the statue to look in the hat for the flask. I still have a copy of the Times article about the flyover. Unfortunately the bottle was gone by years of wind and water. But the story lives on in our family. I have many more tales of life in NJ on both sides of our family. My father was present and stationed at Lakehearst when the Hindenburg crashed. I moved from NJ in the 1970s to end up in Marblehead, Ma., birthplace of the US Navy, and home of Gen Glover, who with the other Marbleheaders traveled to Trenton with their boats to ferry Washington across the Delaware on Christmas Eve . It was ironic that I landed here, as I remember attending the reenactment every year as a boy. I've got lots of history and stories to tell if you ever need new material. Love your channel, liked and subscribed. Mike Whalen, Marblehead, Ma.. P.S. Like me , Old Ironsides came back to rest here in New England too !

@jamesmcnaughton5092 2 года назад

Old iron sides steel was used to build the tug Gwendolyn Steers which sank in a storm in Huntington Bay Longisland in the 60s with all hands lost in the storm

@amandaquintieri9029 2 года назад

I live in Morris County and see these canals and signs everyday. Thanks for the interesting video!

@harrysweeten9417 2 года назад

I kayak in the Delaware and Raritan feeder canal between Washington's crossing and Lambertville, we paddle up the canal to Lambertville then back down to Washington's crossing in the Delaware river. Its always a pleasant experience and scenic trip.

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

That's sounds so serene.

@ogtonguework89 2 года назад

I'm from north jersey and see the signs of the Morris canal and always wondered what it was thanks for the info man!!!!!

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

Isn't it amazing to come across things like that from the past? We were driving along the DE river in NJ & above Riegelsvelle we saw these massive stone structures in the woods. No idea. Found out the were lime kilns!

@davidwalters4014 2 года назад

Lived near the canal as a kid. Really didn't know the history till visiting as an adult. The history is amazing, not taught in schools either. Thanks again.

@dilladonuts8215 2 года назад

The Delaware canal still very much exists (I used to live directly next to it). It’s just not used anymore for any private or public use. There’s a trail right next to it that makes for a calming walk on a nice day

@mattheweichert269 2 года назад

I grew up next to it and still go walking on it sometimes

@alanthefisher 2 года назад

Actually its still used as a drinking water supply for much of Central Jersey

@tomtrask_YT 2 года назад

Dumb question, can you walk the whole thing? I've only seen it around Lambertville (which I presume is near that end of the canal) and around Princeton. It's struck me as one of those gonzo "Hey I bet I could walk from here to there in a day" sort of things.

@mattheweichert269 2 года назад

@@tomtrask_YT i'm no sure how long it is uninterrupted, but you can deffinitly walk it from new brunwick up past bound brook which is a pretty good walk

@samuelbeckerman2548 2 года назад

@@tomtrask_YT it runs from New Brunswick all the way to PA. I ride my bike on it all the time. The recent flash flooding made it inaccessible for now until they fix it up again.

@jonathanrichter4256 Год назад

I grew up in East Brunswick, right next to New Brunswick, and my dad lived in Highland Park, literally right across the Raritan River from New Brunswick, yet I had never heard of the Delaware-Raritan Canal! It should be in every student's NJ History classes.

@samanthab1923 5 месяцев назад

Tell me about it! That’s how I felt till my parents moved to New Hope PA! Spent all my life in Monmouth Co.

@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts 11 месяцев назад

The Garden State never disappoints. Thank you, Ryan. ❤

@elmiguel6725 2 года назад

Talking about coal, my grandfather was a coal miner in Pennsylvania all those years ago before they moved to NJ where he worked at the Kearney Shipyards during WW2. God Bless you pop. 🙏

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

My mother , Catherine O'Leary; was a Rosie the Riveter at Western Electric in Kearney making radar units during W.W. II . My father, Walter , was in Port Moresby, S. Pacific.

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

My dad was an Ironworker in NJ/NY. Worked on the big Kearney PO for years.

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

@@samanthab1923 My father's brother-in-law post W.W. II; worked at Sunoco in Kearney his whole career; it was located on the Passaic River. He was Jimmy Rehill of Bayonne; we ae all from Bayonne.

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

Warren O'Leary The guy who wrote Game of Thrones George RR Martin grew up in Bayonne! Conan kidded him about looking out his window as a kid at SI & seeing Westeros! 😂

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

@@samanthab1923 I had forgotten about that fact ! I taught biology at Bayonne High and retired to Michigan when my Bayonne wife got at position at Eastern Michigan U. ; she left Kean University after many years there teaching under her maiden name. My mother's parents moved out of Manhattan in 1940 to Wurtsboro, N.Y. , Sullivan County at the intersection of old Rt. 17 & Rt.209 coming out of Milford , Pa into Port Jervis, N.Y. to New Paltz on the Hudson River. The Delaware & Hudson Canal followed this Rt. 209 , barges carrying Pa. coal to the Hudson River then down river to points South, mostly N.Y.C. and Hudson County ! My grandparents' Wurtsboro home was about 50 yds. away from the dried up D & H canal. I spent all of my Summers in Wurtsboro with my mother & siblings.

@Gwartonium 2 года назад

Its cool seeing a video about my state in a positive light

@geralderdek282 3 месяца назад

What a great video!! My father born in 1915 was a millstone resident and he told me that as a kid, he would wave to ladies lounging on decks of pleasure boats as they slowly moved along the Delaware and Raritan canal. He retired in 1976 from the Laurie rubber and reclaiming co.in east millstone right on the bank of that canal. That factory is long gone now.

@matt_neo 2 года назад

On the banks of the old Raritan, my friend But seriously, learning about these canals at school then seeing this vid is super interesting. Something that was so central and important is now a nice running trail across the river from the football stadium where you can see tons of turtles and birds in the spring. It's actually really beautiful

@WhiteTriForce 4 месяца назад

Part of the Morris Canal was in my backyard in Ledgewood ! 🤔 We found one of the tokens used on the canal in our garden ! 👇😉 Kings General Store was nearby ! 🎉 I love the way you pronounce Lake Hopatcong ! 🥳👌

@southernsoul0127 2 года назад

Gotta love jersey, and it's history, so many state parks and small towns to explore.

@DaveSCameron Год назад

As an English man it's heartwarming to see how your New World evolved precisely as it did over the pond here albeit on a larger scale, I also admire your passion for what you have achieved in such a small amount of time so please recall this when you feel the need to denounce any of our nations policies or decisions over the last 1k years as we all surely see that times change fast but we generally have the common good in mind. Best wishes.

@ninas992 2 года назад

I grew up in Hackettstown, NJ...literally "down the hill" from part of the drained Morris Canal..as kids we used to go exploring there all the time and lots of hiking and biking...

@flautalee3090 2 года назад

I lived in NJ since 1982 and never knew about the canals. Thank you for posting this terrific video. I went to grade school in Seattle WA and learned the City and States history, which I found fascinating. In grade 3 we went to a Chinese food store where first saw spaghetti, seaweed and squid. In Girl Scouts we visited the Seattle Locks, still in use today for boating, tourism, and as a salmon run.

@jerrydifilippo6817 2 года назад

I live in Rockaway. The Morris canal went through the town. Remnants are all around. Pretty cool.

@HighOnLife1985 2 года назад

Greetings from your neighbor next door in Dover. Are you in the Boro or the Township? I think I recall seeing canal signs in Rockaway Boro

@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 2 месяца назад

The Jim and Mary Lee Morris canal museum in Phillipsburg is absolutely fantastic. They allow you to access the turbine chamber for the incline plane on the site, with the turbine still inside. Highly recommend

@Sevenigma777 2 года назад

Wow I live in NJ my whole life and I'm a big history buffs I can't believe I have never heard of this. This channel is the beauty of what RU-vid can actually be. Awesome vid and thanks for all the hard work for the sake of our entertainment.

@tonyb6703 2 года назад

My grandmother’s home in Rockaway New Jersey was the location of the Morris canals number six plane section. This is two blocks away from the Rockaway River and the canal connected to the lumberyard which is currently 84 lumber. The location is on Halsey Avenue across the street from Saint Cecilia church and school. In the 90s a sign was erected showing the location and direction of the canal.

@danielfavino9537 2 года назад

Well done Ryan. I’m born and raised here. Still live in a hopatcong community. You did a hell of a job. Around here we grow up learning about our lake and canal. You nailed good sir.

@SMM1765 2 года назад

South Jersey ideas: Batsto Village and the iron bog ore industry in South Jersey/Pine Barrens. Also the glass industry of South Jersey would be interesting. Great job on the videos!

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

I am a proud N.J. native from Bayonne now living in Tecumseh, Mi. since 2002 A.D. .

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

P.S. Spent my Summers in Sullivan Co.'s Wurtsboro , N.Y. ( Southern Catskill Mtns. ) ; The D.& H Canal passes trough town ( about 175 feet from my maternal grandparents home ( they were originally from Manhattan.).

@kevinhutchins4222 2 года назад

@@warrenoleary7172 I'm from Bayonne, as well. My uncle owned the Shop Rite on Avenue C.

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

@@kevinhutchins4222 Small world. Lived on second st. ; therefore we shopped at both Vic's small market on third st. & Ave. C but got our big order at Steve's Shop Rite on Fourth & " C " ! Retired teacher of science from Bayonne Public School System. taught at both W.Wilson then Bayonne High till 2002. Wife is from Bayonne and her ( Nevins ) family shopped at your family's Shop Rite. They lived on West 28 th st. .

@bretyoung1869 2 года назад

Very interesting..... Thanks

@dennismitchell5414 2 года назад

If you don't have one already I'd like to see one on Ocean City , New Jersey . Although a native of Baltimore, Maryland we would spend a three day weekend there throughout the 1960's . Your channel rocks , keep up the great work and stay safe .

@richardvilseck 2 года назад

Funny. I‘ve always wondered if you could tell if someone is from New Jersey by the way he pronounces the Lenape names. It’s Lake Ho-PAT-cong.

@joannewsome5202 2 года назад

Richardvilseck I, too, took note of the mispronunciation of Hopatcong but was reading to see if anyone else noted it to the author. When I was about 9 my mom sent me to a Catholic girls Summer camp there for two weeks. It seemed so far away. Then when my daughter married that’s where they bought their first home & we had to make many day trips to see them & their kids. Route 80 & other main highways made the difference from a Summer resort area to a bustling Morris County community while I grew up , got married & had children.

@thomassmith2058 2 года назад

And George P. Muck-Ta-Luck is turning over in his grave!!

@thomasdong3882 2 года назад

Lenape high school gang

@joannewsome5202 2 года назад

@@thomassmith2058 who is George P Mucktaluck?

@thomassmith2058 2 года назад

@@joannewsome5202 He was trying to pronounce "George P McCulloch", the Morristown businessman credited with the original idea of the Morris Canal.

@mrsouthjersey4956 2 года назад

As a "River rat" from Pennsville, Exit 1 turnpike, it would be an "eye opener" too do a story of the gigantic sturgeon caught in the Delaware River especially along the Penns Grove shoreline. The caviar was world famous and highly sought after. The size of the sturgeon I've seen in old photos from the early 1900's blew me away. Some up to 60-70 inches long.

@BuChan89 2 года назад

Neptune City, NJ native here! Lots of cool history in Monmouth County. I taught history and geography in NJ before relocating to Japan in 2017. Love seeing this history being shared!

@joannewsome5202 2 года назад

Jersey to Japan !! There’s a cultural change 😊

@BuChan89 2 года назад

@@joannewsome5202 For sure! Great food here, but do I miss the pizza something fierce 😭

@warrenoleary7172 2 года назад

Have a cousin & his family in Neptune City about 42 years, originally from Bayonne , too ! His house faces a park on the Shark River.

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

I have a dear friend whose husband was from Neptune. Wound up out here in Lambertville. I too was from the area.

@TylerNieves-ty7ns 2 года назад

I had no idea their were so many pictures or documentation!! I live outside of Phillipsburg and we would take field trips to the Morris canal trails in history class! Their used to be a grain mill and locke house for the Morris canal down the street from my house untill it was knocked down

@CookieB220 2 года назад

Born in Passaic NJ, also lived in Rockaway NJ. I’ve heard and seen many of these canals. Great history indeed. Great video,thanks,I really enjoyed it.

@johncaruso1025 2 года назад

The princeton historical society has excellent pictures of a " J " boat ( large old time racing sailboat) passing the turntabled railroad line prn - prn jct near Alexander road ...

@DeadBaron 2 года назад

Maine has TONS of canals, most of which are eroded away or dry, from when lumber was floated down rivers and canals instead of using trucks. Sometimes I wonder what Maine would be like if lumber was still floated, it created tons of jobs and it was dangerous as hell.

@americansmark 2 года назад

Incredible channel. Iive along the last functional canal and lock system in Ohio. It's awesome to see. My father in law is a retired tow boat captain and traversed many of the remaining canals along the Ohio and Mississippi.

@GCF-Media 2 года назад

Teacher: you can't just learn something from watching a video. Me at 21 learning more in 15 minutes than I ever did in 4 years...

@TracySmith-xy9tq 2 года назад

I saw the Delaware canal many times as a kid in the 60s and 70s near Washington's Crossing. Very peaceful area.

@JohnSkvir Год назад

The red arrow on the satellite photo misses the eastern end of the Morris canal by a few miles. It's further north, where the large and small basins are still clearly visible in Jersey City, immediately adjacent to the re-located Colgate's Clock.

@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 2 месяца назад

The Morris Cannell inclined planes were truly a technological marvel. They were water powered, through use of scotch turbines to provide mechanical power. Ruins of A few of the turbine chambers still exist in East Jersey, and one of the turbines is still on display at lake HO-PAT-CONG.

@jessekooistra6200 2 года назад

I'm originally from NJ and learned about these canal systems in Elementary schools. As a 35 year PA resident, we have canal parks for the D&H all over the place with remnants of the canal clearly seen throughout northeast PA across NY to the Hudson. NY(city) and Philly tend to get the headlines but NJ, PA, and update NY were the backbone of the industrial revolution along with the industrial centers of the great lakes region.

@porkfat5521 2 года назад

Another subject would be all the history of mining that went on since the revolutionary war. Green Pond Ironworks for instants, Franklin NJ is fanous for the zinc mine and Franklinite that glows. More history there than I can list here.

@amandahess151 2 года назад

I grew up near the D&R canal. The locks are still there although not used. Beautiful place for hiking and fishing

@zuutlmna 2 года назад

I am soooo tired of asphalt!! -Wow.. A waterway instead of a roadway! I love the idea!

@wesley115777 2 года назад

You only get to go 2 mph, though.

@larryhinkle9390 2 года назад

They probably dont teach this anymore but when I took AM History we did an entire section on early canals.

@zuutlmna 2 года назад

Wasn't taught to me, in school in the 1950's and '60's (of course my being in California might also have had something to do with that). I remember the Erie Canal mentioned, but no time was spent on any canal history.

@TheWizardGamez 2 года назад

I’m still in school, all they ever taught was the Erie Canal.

@petertothRC-FPV 2 года назад

Good show🎬 Nice clip of the Paterson Great Falls in the end👍

@lhaley9873 7 месяцев назад

I grew up in Hopatcong on the West side near the Stste Park. In the off season we would go to the park to play and explore. A turbine is preserved there in a concrete building. It would use a 1/2" of water to prevent wear. The lake is lowered in winter and the lock going into the lake can be seen on that side of the dam. built as a supply of water for the canal passengers could get on a steam ship to destinations on the lake. My sister owns a canal house in Wharton and the canal is in her back yard, minus water.

@TeamLynchBMD 2 года назад

The Washington Canal was finished in 1831 in Sayreville/ South River NJ Lumber and produce and later bricks were transported down the canal. There was also a boat building business at South River that took advantage of the canal. Great video 👋👍

@64maxpower 2 года назад

Do you know of any sites with information about the Washington Canal?I grew up in Sayreville. I'd be interested in learning more

@TeamLynchBMD 2 года назад

@@64maxpower I’m not home right now but if you do a search there is a good article from the Sayreville historical society. Also the book on the History of Middlesex and or Middlesex/Union county have lots of information 👋👍

@64maxpower 2 года назад

@@TeamLynchBMD thanks. I should have researched it myself instead of asking someone else to do the work. I have a pile of bricks made from the SayreFischer brick works that I have a tough time parting with

@WhiteTriForce 4 месяца назад

2:37 that picture is just above Ledgewood Park and the building on the left was there for many years while I was growing up in the area ! ☝️🧐 Main Street had trolley cars and a rotating turnstile on the top and bottom of the street ! 👈😉

@mattkaustickomments 2 года назад

Indiana tried to get in on the canal craze in the 1830’s. A literally “Mammoth” improvement effort to build canals caused the state to go bankrupt in 1839. Because of this, it has become Indiana law for the state to never be in the red, budgets must be completely balanced.

@Joey4rox 4 дня назад

Thank you for this! In high school, I canoed the D&R canal in 1961 from New Brunswick to Trenton and back.

@jimalden9355 Год назад

Thank you for helping more people learn about the vital role these 2 canals played in NJ's history. Well done! If anyone would like to learn more, see tons of old photos etc...check out the website of the Canal Society of NJ, a great historical non-profit group. Joining is super cheap and helps them continue to preserve and protect what remains of these vital arteries!

@Thecorgially 11 месяцев назад

Just subscribed. The canal history is very interesting. Didn't realize it went that far back in time. I think the mule pulled canal boats are the most interesting to me. New Hope, PA - NJ had canals too I think.

@Live2ride2live54321 Год назад

Excellent work!! Unfortunately, you missed one of the coolest features of the Delaware Raratin canal!! The canal crosses an aqueduct over Carnegie lake in Princeton!!! It’s so cool because the top of the aqueduct is only at around 3 feet above the water level of the lake. However, you can see water trickling out of the old concrete structure and seeping into the lake. It’s really cool to see what looks like a bridge of water crossing a body of water!! Technically, it’s called Millstone aqueduct and footbridge. Totally worth checking out!!!

@RSDX99 2 года назад

As a 65 year former NJ resident, I am interested in NJ auto racetracks from the past. When I was a child my dad would take us to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City for races. I heard about tracks in Dover, Morristown, and even attended races in Old Bridge and Flemington NJ. But I know there were many more even Piscataway had a board track way back in the day.

@RJMay3 2 года назад

Raceway Park was in Old Bridge, off Englishtown Road. I could hear cars doing burnouts from the back patio of my cousins on warm weekends.

@samanthab1923 5 месяцев назад

@@RJMay3My youngest brother was good friends with the grandsons of the owner. He’d go to races all the time back in the 80’s. My other brother saw the Dead there, 70’s

@RJMay3 5 месяцев назад

My dad was the district president of UHaul.across 440 from Roosevelt Stadium, some time in the70s.My brother and I used to play on the property there. I think I have PTSD from the color Orange. lol Our uncle was a policeman just up the road on Englishtown Rd in Old Bridge...Raceway Park!

@samanthab1923 5 месяцев назад

@@RJMay3 Saw the Eagles at Rosevelt

@RSDX99 5 месяцев назад

@@RJMay3 Sorry for the untimely reply but Old Bridge Speedway was a 1/2 Mile paved oval in a different Location of Old bridge Raceay pak which was a 1/4 mile dragstrip on the other side of Old Bridge Twp.

@eddiechase9691 2 года назад

Hi Ryan, I just saw my first video of yours, and I work for a non-profit in Pennsauken, NJ that operates in a building that use to be a dog track way back in the day. It is a ridiculously cool building that still has the entirety of it's skeleton, but has been repurposed as a retail store. I'd love to share more, as I think a video about both the history of the dog track AND horse track that use to exist just a couple miles away in Cherry Hill would be a really cool video topic.

@kaoz250f1 7 месяцев назад

Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Musconnetcong Tunnel construction. The "Pattenburg Massacre" also occured there during the construction. "The Winds of Midnight" from Gordon Long also tells the story

@raydandy4899 2 года назад

Great video. I have located and traveled most of the entire distance of what's left of the canal from Port Elizabeth to Phillipsburg. I grew up in Stanhope, NJ where we still had large sections of the canal intact. Little by little it is disappearing and soon there won't be much left to see. The funny thing is that while I saw some portion of the canal everyday growing up I had no idea what it was until much later in my life. Your video at least has a created a concise historical record. Thanks.

@samanthab1923 5 месяцев назад

I’ve heard of the Stanhope House. Very haunted 👻

@johnbaggus9966 2 года назад

Very interesting 👌thank-you for taking the time to produce and upload , well done Ryan

@PoconoMountaineer405 2 года назад

whats left of the canals in new jersey is still beautiful, even if there are not many examples.. also please do a episode on the new york & greenwood lake railroad

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

I never knew about Greenwood Lake till meeting my husband. Beautiful spot.

@PoconoMountaineer405 2 года назад

@@samanthab1923 yes, it is a very scenic spot

@underdiggeroakley2903 2 года назад

Grew up in Delaware two. Lived on the DNR canal and THE Delaware River every year. Could throw a stone into it from my back door in Frenchtown NJ. When the river floods we flood too ..

@pethog 2 года назад

Seems like a lot of people have already brought up the NJ Iron Works across the state and their integral importance not only to the founding of the nation, but also for pre-industrial revolution commerce throughout the state. The history of the Black Dirt Region of Northern NJ and Southern NY is also rife with good history and an entertaining narrative of it's foundation and subsequent draining into the farmland it is today.

@jerrymachusak3216 2 месяца назад

This was very well done! Thank you! As for some ideas for the future, I lived in Flemington, NJ for a few decades and learned about the old copper mines. We took our kids to a park that included the old mine entrance and . . . wait for it . . . Mine Creek. The mine tunnels ran underneath the Borough of Flemington but I was never able to find a tunnel map. I was curious because there was a dip in my gravel driveway that recurred no matter how many large stones I used to try to fill it. I suspected that an old mine tunnel ran beneath it, but without a map I'll never know. Oh, and there were three of four huge scams involving giant copper ore finds that never existed. Stock was sold and the investors swindled. I think you could put together a great story with this.

@dn744 2 года назад

I think canals were only dug out, but were just old and silted up. Those Irish diggers were also busy in many other countries so it seems. So was everyone in Ireland born with a spade? Enough time to empty and re open, but even today it takes us ages to complete 10 miles.

@Mike-tg7dj 2 года назад

Canals were definitely important for carrying bulk material such as grain , large amounts of wood. In fact it wasn't uncommon to build a flat boat load it up with goods and float it to New Orleans then walk back after selling everything including the wood used to build the flat boat. You already know that story though, right? Nicely done as this should be remembered. The powers that be didn't save any of the locks that were built on the Cumberland River at Nashville except that they blew up the locks and spillways. I guess they were afraid of them becoming water hazards in the river. The Army Corp of Engineers basically turned the river into one long lake or lakes with locks each dam.

@dalecurtis3149 2 года назад

I live in south brunswick near New Road & Route 27 and when I go for drives down Canal Road I always wonder about the people who worked and lived in that area.

@rundmz 2 года назад

Hey could you make a video of the lost skyscrapers of Philadelphia? There is the arcade building and Broad St. Station, And the Story of the Divine Lorraine is a good one.

@DonTako47 2 года назад

Born and raised in New Brunswick right across the street from the canal

@willis3rik 2 года назад

Awsome I grew up in the Boro of Raritan and messed around the canal and river my whole childhood

@Powerstroke2003 2 года назад

Im surrounded by the old canal, i live in Succasunna now, had a house on the lake in Landing as a kid and my father still lives in Byram Cove on the other side of Lake “HO- PAT-CONG” lol. Spent years riding quads back and forth to Pennsylvania on the old abandoned rail road tracks from back then as well. Alot of great history here.

@nickw7619 2 года назад

You can still see some of the canal in Bridgewater NJ (right next to Raritan, for example I went to Bridgewater-Raritan High School), across from the 4H building near the Wegmans on rt 206. There's a park there next to the river

@mikechrister2736 2 года назад

Great video. Great research and information.

@NoUniqueThoughtHere 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this video. I occasionally see the canals and water ways & often wondered about their history. Since you asked about suggestions for future New Jersey related topics... As a civil war Reenactor, I would love to see what you would do with a video about New Jersey’s soldiers.

@Knox607 2 года назад

I’m watching this less than 100 feet from the d&r right now in Ewing. Great video

@johnlash6511 2 года назад

Love learning about the state i lived in for my whole life .

@chrisdaSpic 2 года назад

Shout out Trenton NJ, always good to see old photos of the city

@sirusfox 2 года назад

One great irony, the D&R canal still exists. The rail line that once supplant it, does not.

@robertkruchell5534 2 года назад

I was born in Moristown NJ I remembor Playing in the old Canals thanks hor your vidio

@tphvictims5101 11 месяцев назад

EXCELLENT video.

@ikmarchini 2 года назад

In NJ there is a Lake Ho-PAT-cong. There is no Lake HOP-ta-cong. PS, sorry, just read your explanation below. Courage is your middle name. Keep the good videos coming.

@AtomixIGN 2 года назад

Lenape names f*** absolutely everyone else up. I empathize but I cringe. I live in pohat, next to lopat, which is quite a ways from hopat, and everyday I cross the Musconet with -cong being the suffix that means water. So those are all Rivers. But I also cross the minneakoning - and that's not a lenape word at all. I think it's a Dutch whoopsie

@Jprice141788 2 года назад

I had a great laugh when he said it lol. I'm in Wharton and occasionally I will walk the Morris Canal.

@ElementofKindness 2 года назад

It's too bad that the USA can't learn to embrace the heritage of the canals, and reimagine them for tourist/recreational market revenue, as England has and continues to do.

@TheWizardGamez 2 года назад

Yup, that’s America. Consumerism even in history. Woah look at that new toy, phone, car, train. Throw away all those useful stuff

@robertknowles2699 2 года назад

@@TheWizardGamez Civil tech. is fascinating, outdoor, creative, and a group activity just as fun as hiking or bicycling. Water flooding control mentioned as feeder runoffs? Flood of 1913 must have been too much in Ohio as oil. became plentiful. Flood relief tech. more advanced in NJ than Ohio ?

@patricialynn6280 2 года назад

I'm from south jersey...Did you ever do any history on clementon Park and the small community behind the park which there are still some original summer cottages along the lake from back in the day, along with the main entrance to the best golf course in the world..Pine valley?

@attiliopampanin9503 2 года назад

Would love to see that my mother was born in Camden and took the train to Clementon when 5 years old a family day she took me when I was 5 back in 1964 still living in Berlin