Bellows Falls Canal (Rockingham, Vermont)
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1802: The first canal in the United States is built at Bellows Falls. The British company chartered to render the Connecticut River navigable took 10 years to build the dams and 9 locks around the Great Falls, 52 feet high. Rumor has it that the first boat to try to use the thing was too wide for it. After the railroad came in 1849, river traffic declined and the canal was used for water power only.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°8'4"N 72°26'38"W
- Highland Lake 28 km
- Franklin Pierce Lake 39 km
- Lake Sunapee 44 km
- North Hartland Reservoir 54 km
- Mascoma Lake 61 km
- Goose Pond 71 km
- Pasquaney Bay 80 km
- Newfound Lake 82 km
- Lake Fairlee 87 km
- Lake Dunmore 102 km
- Walpole, New Hampshire 5.9 km
- Rockingham, Vermont 6.6 km
- Westminster, Vermont 8.6 km
- Charlestown 13 km
- Grafton, Vermont 15 km
- Springfield, Vermont 17 km
- Townshend, Vermont 19 km
- Chester, Vermont 22 km
- Jamaica, Vermont 28 km
- Londonderry, Vermont 30 km